CHAPEL HILL -- The stereotype of video game players as young, brainy loners -- usually male -- no longer applies, two directors of game design companies told an audience during a panel discussion at UNC on Wednesday.

Local students and video game developers will show off their latest projects for the first ever gamingSPARK. The list includes a broad range of categories including Serious, Casual, Mobile, and Student. These games will all take the spotlight September 18 at 5 p.m. at Urban Design Center located in downtown Raleigh on the corner of Fayetteville and Hargett Street.

Triangle Game Conference is proud to announce a partnership with GameX Industry Summit. Game industry professionals are invited to the GameX Industry Summit at the Greater Philadelphia Convention Center for two days of games-focused lectures, panels, roundtables and keynotes from the best and brightest minds in the games business. GameX Industry Summit is presented by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) chapters in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia.

RALEIGH -- Nearly 300 people crammed into a lecture hall, three and four-person deep in the standing room, to listen to Michael Capps speak at the inaugural Triangle Game Conference Wednesday.

RALEIGH, N.C. - As hundreds of people flock to the new capital city downtown for the first Triangle Game Conference, a salary survey just out shows why so many people want to be game developers.

Hundreds of game developers and industry experts are gathering in Raleigh this week for the first annual Triangle Game Conference.

The Research Triangle's growing videogame industry opens its first "Triangle Game Conference" today in the capital city, and Alexander Macris, who helped organize it, has a unique perspective.

Marriott City Center-Save your jokes about "Pac-Man Fever." Just as comic books have gained respectability as a form of literature and a popular entertainment, the video game industry has grown in leaps and bounds over the last decade to include some of the most innovative and immersive forms of storytelling.

When it comes to video games, the Triangle already has some bragging rights.

Triangle Game Conference attendees are invited to the IGDA Triangle Game Conference Kickoff Party on Tuesday, April 28, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Buckhead Saloon located at 411 W. Morgan St., downtown Raleigh. Admission is free, but you must register at www.igda.org/nctriangle to reserve your spot.

With the Triangle now the home of 30 or more game development companies- a cluster making it the 3rd largest gaming hub in the country- local industry leaders want to give the sector a higher profile. And how better to do that than hold a conference.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC-When Juan Benito, creative director of Atomic Games started playing games in the late 1980s on computers, PCs were then a dominant gaming platform.

DFC Intelligence continues its regular series of profiles on game development hot spots around the world with this month's look at the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.

Dr. Michael Capps, president of hugely successful Epic Games, developer of Games of War and the Unreal game engine, plans to tell the North Carolina Technology Association CEO conference about the unique culture among game developers.

To help attract, cultivate and retain serious games and advanced learning technologies firms in Wake County, the Raleigh Convention Center and Marriott City Center will host the Triangle Game Conference Wednesday, April 29 and Thursday, April 30 from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.