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Heads up, eSports enthusiasts: GDC 2016 is just weeks away, and today organizers are pleased to announce another great talk for the March conference that should shed light on the rapidly-evolving art of designing mobile games for competitive play.

Kristian Segerstrale, COO and executive director of Super Evil Megacorp, will share some lessons learned from the development and promotion of the studio's standout mobile MOBA Vainglory.

In "The Vainglory Story -- 5 Lessons From Building a Touch Screen eSport," Segerstrale intends to share key learnings from building Vainglory from nothing into an emerging eSport with hundreds of teams and millions of views in less than a year.

It's one of many excellent talks in the GDC 2016 eSports Summit, and attendees will glean concrete examples and lessons from evolving a game into an eSport in under a year from launch with plenty of practical advice for developers and publishers alike.

The talk is one of many that will take place during the eight focused Summits at GDC, which fill the first two days of the event with lectures, panels, postmortems, and more to foster community-building within specific sectors of the game industry.

The 16th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, the premier peer-based awards celebrating game development, will be recognizing Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard, who has created some of the industry's most successful games by pioneering open world gameplay, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his indelible contributions to the world of gaming.

The Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony takes place on Wednesday, March 16th at 6:30 pm at the Moscone Convention Center during the 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and will be livestreamed on Twitch at the following link: http://www.twitch.tv/gdca

Todd Howard, distinguished video game creative director, designer and executive producer, has been at Bethesda for 22 years and is behind some of the industry's most successful and beloved games, including a number of blockbusters within the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series.

With GDC 2016 coming up fast, organizers are excited to announce another great behind-the-scenes talk that will be taking place at the conference in March.

Playful Corp design director Dan Hurd and engineer Evan Reidland will be delivering a cutting-edge talk on "Lucky's Tale: The Unexpected Delight of Third-Person Virtual Reality, a Technical Postmortem" as part of the inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference at GDC.

The talk, one of many that will be a part of the Game VR/AR track of VRDC talks at GDC 2016, will cover specific details about how the Lucky's Tale team tackled third-person camera design and movement, scale, level and game design in the pursuit of comfort, presence, and delight.

GDC 2016 organizers would like to give you a preview of the informative and intriguing sessions taking place during the two-day Game Design Workshop which will help kick off the conference next month.

This is just one of the many Bootcamps and Tutorials scheduled during the first two days of GDC (Monday and Tuesday, March 14th and 15th this year) and offer attendees the chance to study critical components of the game design craft.

GDC 2016 attendees are invited to attend the two-day workshop and take part in hands-on activities, group discussion, analysis and critique. Attendees will immerse themselves in the iterative process of refining a game design and discover design concepts that will help them think more clearly about their designs and make better games.

GDC 2016 is a month away, and today the GDC team is excited to highlight a talk from Bethesda Game Studios on the modular level design of Fallout 4 that will be taking place during the March conference.

But first, conference organizers would also like to gently remind that today is the last day to register early for GDC 2016 at a discounted rate! If you register to attend GDC 2016 after 11:59 PM Pacific today you'll pay full price, so if you're thinking about coming to GDC this year, register now!

GDC 2016 attendees will have the opportunity to attend a Design track talk from Bethesda Game Studios' Joel Burgess and Nathan Purkeypile on "Fallout 4's Modular Level Design" that promises to be intriguing and informative. 

Game Developers Conference 2016 is next month, and those interested in attending can register to do so at a discounted rate until this Wednesday, February 3rd 11:59 PM Pacific. After that you'll have to pay full price, so if you're thinking about coming to GDC this year, register now!

To give you a better idea of the sorts of in-depth game development talks taking place at this year's event, GDC organizers today highlight a handful of great sessions announced for the eight focused Summits that will take place Monday, March 14th and Tuesday, March 15th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA during the first two days of the conference.

During the Indie Game Summit, for example, Frictional Games' Thomas Grip will talk about what it was like to explore the finer points of conveying existential dread in "Soma - Crafting Existential Dread."