ELSPA and TIGA announce this year's London Games Summit, to be held this October in Piccadilly.

To be held on the 4th & 5th October, 2006 at the BAFTA headquarters in Piccadilly, The London Games Summit will offer two days of thought-provoking content from visionary business leaders in the games industry and keynote speeches from UK government ministers. The content will explore business issues, strategies and opportunities for maximizing the expanding game market across all platforms and will be the definitive event for industry executives and business managers in Europe.

Michael Rawlinson, Managing Director, ELSPA commented, "The London Games Summit will offer a platform for the industry to demonstrate its growing status as a credible and thriving part of our culture and the world of entertainment."

"This event is aimed at the key players of the present and the future and offers a unique environment in which to cultivate and grow individual businesses and our industry as a whole," added Nikkan Woodhouse, International Trade and Export Advisor, Tiga.

The London Games Summit, programmed by leading industry conference specialist the CMP Game Group, producers of the Game Developers Conference, will form a critical part of the London Games Festival, a week-long series of events to be held in the capital beginning the 2nd October. The week will also feature the CMP Game Group's GDC London � a conference focussed exclusively on advanced techniques in game development; the London Game Career Fair presented by Gamasutra.com, Eurogamer.net and Gamesindustry.biz; the London Content, Outsourcing and Middleware Market, presented by Tiga; and BAFTA's British Academy Video Games Awards.

We'll have more on the London Games Festival and the Summit nearer the time!