Game Connection Lyon 09 is the marketplace for video game professionals. The 9th edition of the renown business convention confirms today more than 240 companies for Lyon including many of the major players in the industry. Business is back and kicking!

“After almost a year of waiting, the industry seems to be waking up from a freezing period where nobody dared to make any decision and is now ready for a new start,” reckons Pierre Carde, manager of Game Connection. “The reduction of the prices of the hardware platforms and the awakening of the major publishers along with the push of new business models (try and buy or freemium) opens the door to growth. This is what the preliminary results from our survey shows.”

Companies are coming to Lyon eager to do business!
• 20 nationalities will gather in Lyon
• 20 distributors
• 50 publishers
• 60 service and technology providers
• 100 independent developers

Quoting a long-time participant, “Year after year, Connection Events is proving that the Game Connection is a winning formula: an ideal place to do business, in a professional, quiet environment” - Fabrice Pierre-Elien, Business Development Manager, Ubisoft.

Game Connection Europe will also be a premiere for our special Market trends and will lay the groundwork for the course of the industry for the next two years. Covering market players sentiments, to their focus on specific platforms, to business model shifts necessary to keep up with the industry, and defining demographics of audience – all will be revealed exclusively to Game Connection Europe attendees.