Normally we don´t do updates on Saturdays, but given the nature of this news we felt it prudent to keep you updated. As some of you may remember from our story last week, Sony Computer Entertainment plans on holding a developer´s summit on March 1 and 2 in the Atlantis Gallery of London´s Old Truman Brewery. The event is said to focus exclusively on PlayStation 3.
Known as DevStation 2006, the two-day affair is only open to the development community (meaning no press allowed) and will cover every aspect of Sony´s next-generation system. Sony is now advertising the event via its official website located at DevStation.SCEE.com.
Among the categories to be talked about at the conference are presentations about:
Cell and the OS
Audio
Graphics
Networking
Third-party appearances (including Epic and a guest independent developer)
Middleware (like Havok and Ageia)
Performance analysis
Art/content generation (including presentations from 3rd-party application vendors)
Middleware vendors will also be on hand to demonstrate their latest PS3 products and answer questions, and the event as a whole is being billed as "Twin Steam" in that multiple workshops will be happening at the same time.
Most of the above we already knew, but Sony has also released the list of guest speakers expected to attend for the first time (and has begun allowing folks to register for the event). Among the speakers expected to appear are Sony´s Vice-President of Technology Paul Holman, SCEE Development Support Manager George Bain, and a truckload of people associated with the Cell chip and various aspects of the system.
Specific information as to what developers who attend can look forward to include a breakdown of the operating system and its libraries, an Unreal 3.0 demonstration, Blu-ray and PS3 audio presentations, and Havok and PhysX sessions. There are also a couple of parties (which everyone always likes!).
We´ll keep you informed with more as it becomes available.
http://www.devstation.scee.com/
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/682/682622p1.html
