London Games Festival, Career Fair Opens Doors

Today sees the opening of the London Game Career Fair, a two-day event that will run as part of this year's London Games Festival, and is organized by Gamasutra.com in association with UK sites GamesIndustry.biz and Eurogamer.net. This UK-based Career Fair, which is free to attend, and will give publishers, studios and game companies the chance to meet games industry professionals, recent graduates and people from the fields of computer graphics, animation and film. The Career Fair is being held between October 3rd - 4th at Cafe Royal on Regent Street in the center of London, and an estimated 1000 visitors are expected to attend, as part of the overall London Games Festival festivities, which Gamasutra will be covering in detail this week. Those interested in attending will still be able to register on the door both today and tomorrow. Electronic Arts and LucasArts, among others, have signed up to sponsor the event, and the full list of exhibitors includes THQ, Eidos, Blitz Games, Datascope, OPM Response and Real Time Worlds, plus many more. There is also a series of lectures related to the game industry from notables at Sony, EA, LucasArts, and more, and more information is available at the official London Game Career Fair website. [In addition, please check back throughout the week for in-depth coverage from the GDC London event, which starts today, as well as tomorrow's London Games Summit and the London Game Career Fair event itself, courtesy of multiple Gamasutra reporters.]