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While Microsoft was busy this week shutting down game studios and laying off other game oriented team members, it also revealed that they’ll be making some changes for its huge game development conference Gamefest. While the official Gamefest web site does not have a specific date, Gamasuta reports that the Seattle based conference will not be held in 2009 after all.
Instead Microsoft plans to run the event sometime in the first quarter of 2010 in order to make the event more accessible to game developers who want to attend. Microsoft made a number of major Personal computer game announcements at their 2008 Gamefest including the announcement that Games For Windows Live would be completely free and the first details on DirectX11, the 3D graphics API that’ll likely launch as part of Windows 7.
No Microsoft Gamefest in 2009? originally appeared on Huge Download Blog on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.