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Entertainment gurus converge at gaming seminar in US
MUMBAI: What does the future hold in the US for interactive entertainment?.That is the question that The Game Developers Conference
(GDC) will seek to answer.
The event takes place from 7-11 March 2005 in San Francisco.
The seminar aims at bringing to life the 2005 theme Future Vision . There will be series of talks dedicated to the road ahead for interactive entertainment. The vision track will include progressive leaders in the fields of music, video games, design and technology.
GDC director Jamil Moledina says, “The vision track is designed to provoke innovation among developers and set the stage for the future of interactive entertainment. In a business environment where finishing the current project is the foremost priority, our goal is to provide an environment that fosters the innate creativity of game developers, and empowers each of them to establish their own long-term vision of the next decade of games.”
The speakers include J Allard who is a founding member of the Xbox platform project. He is recognised as e of the most promising young leaders of the entertainment industry. In 1993 he was named in Hollywood Reporter’s Top 35 Entertainment Execs under 35. Allard’s session is entitled The Future of Games: Unlocking the Opportunity.
Another speaker is Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. In his session The Heart of a Gamer he will assess where the game business stands today as well as predicting how it will develop over the next several years.
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
