The Game Developers Conference Austin has been renamed Game Developers Conference Online.
The event runs from October 5 to October 8 and bills itself as the premier game developer event focusing on online and connected gaming including virtual worlds, social games, casual games, and MMOs.
“Conference tracks focus on business and marketing, design, social networking and community, services, production, and programming and cover emerging topics including micro-transactions, the casualization of MMOs, and new distribution models,” says the event organisers.
The four-day event will feature business development talks, technical sessions on programming for connected games, and an expo hall brimming with publishers, tool-vendors and service providers for online and social games.
More details on Game Developers Conference Online will be released in late spring.