In their 11th year Quo Vadis , one of the largest and most reknown game developer conferences in Europe, presents a very special international highlight: Games superstar Richard Garriott will hold a keynote on Wednesday 24 ^th April about the future of gaming and his project Shroud of the Avatar.

Stephan Reichart, Aruba Events: "We are very proud to welcome Richard in Berlin. Lord British inspired a whole generation of game developers and changed playing online games in many ways. We cannot reveal the title of his paper just now, but I promise you, it will be a very special highlight - just as all his talks have been for many years now."

The developers’ conference 'Quo Vadis', created in 2003, takes place from 23 ^th to 25 ^th April in Cafe Moskau in Berlin. A lot of well known game professionals will talk at the conference this year, like Ed Fries, Al Lowe, Paul Trowe, Bob Berry, Charles Cecil, Guillaume Rambourg, Jens Begemann, Klaas Kersting and many more.

All details about the more than 100 speakers, Quo Vadis tickets and the conference schedule are available on www.qvconf.com  

Richard Garriott is one of the world’s most popular game designers. In 2006, Richard was presented with two honours for his work in the games industry. In February, he was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame and in March he was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards.

In October of 2008, Richard fulfilled his lifelong dream to travel to space when he launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station and became the sixth private citizen to fly in Earth’s orbit. In doing so, Richard became the first second-generation American in space, following the path of his father Owen Garriott, who completed two space missions during his NASA career.

Today Richard is co-vice chairman of the board of Space Adventures, Ltd. and is the co-founder and creative director at Portalarium, an Austin-based game developer and publisher creating online games and virtual worlds for social networks and mobile platforms. All details about Richard Garriott aka Lord British can be found on his official website http://richardgarriott.com/ .

The Quo Vadis – Create. Game. Business. conference is the core event of Germany's leading game developers networking and communication platform, DGT – Deutsche Gamestage (April 23 - 27, 2013, Berlin). Taking place from Tuesday, April 23 – Thursday, April 25, at Café Moskau in the heart of Berlin, it offers an exclusive business center, international keynotes, hands-on workshops, visionary lectures and top-class networking events. The conference is host of the opening ceremony of the DGT. The contextual focus 2013 lies on mobile games, Free-to-Play business models and crowdfunding. Organizer of Quo Vadis is Aruba Events GmbH. More on www.qvconf.com.

About Deutsche Gamestage (DGT):

The DGT – Deutsche Gamestage (lit. “German Game Days”) constitute Germany’s leading cross-industry communication and networking platform for games business, -development and -culture. Eight individual events over five days offer a multitude of information on the topic of games; these include a business conference, workshops and talent-scouting, as well as our own Indie conference, a gala event and matchmaking-/ public playing events.

Events for 2013 are, among others, the “Quo Vadis. Create. Game. Business.“ conference, the “A MAZE. Indie Connect“ festival, the „Girls' Day“, the recruiting event “Making Games Talents“ and the “Gamefest Berlin“ at the "Computerspielemuseum" (computer games museum). The highlight is the award ceremony of the "Deutscher Computerspielpreis" (German computer game award) on Wednesday evening. The "Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg" is the sponsor of individual events.

Participants include German and international game developers, publishers, investors and gamers as well as representatives of public institutions and the media industry. In 2012, more than 2.000 visitors came to the DGT – Deutsche Gamestage in Berlin.

More on Deutsche Gamestage on www.deutsche-gamestage.de/en .

Press Contact:

Quo Vadis

Cristina Lamyon

Aruba Events GmbH

Tel: +49 208 698 26 08

lamyon@aruba-events.de