The Austin Game Developers Conference has been officially announced to take place September 5-7, 2007.  Many of you may notice the addition of the "Developers" word in that title as compared to previous years... well it's now the Austin version of the bigger Game Developers Conference -- coming up March 5-9 incidentally -- owned by the former's new aquirer, CMP.  Sound confusing?  It did to me too as I was typing it... I'm not going to try to rewrite it.  Sorry. My point is, CMP bought up the Game Initiative, who previously ran the Austin Game Conference.  Now the Austin conference may really be more of a "little GDC" like many of us referred to it from the start.

Bah.. I'm not helping anything by trying to be more clear.  More coffee please, Miss!

So, the Austin GDC (as they're acronymifying it) will focus on three tracks:  online games, audio for games and writing for games.  That particular combination makes sense when you realize the old Game Initiative conference palette included a conference for game writers as well as the online game-centric AGC of old.

Seriously... I'm thinking my writing is sucking just about now.  I'll put a nail in this story and let you go browser over there yourself for more info.