BETHESDA PAX ANNOUNCEMENT
PAX Australia
is fast approaching and today we’re pleased to announce three talent headed
Down Under for this year’s event, including:
- Pete
Hines, Senior Vice President – Global Marketing and Communications,
Bethesda Softworks
Pete Hines is the
Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Communications at Bethesda
Softworks. He joined Bethesda in 1999 and has since overseen the launches of
Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, RAGE, Skyrim, Dishonored 1
+ 2, The Evil Within 1 + 2, DOOM (2016), The Elder Scrolls Online, Fallout 4,
Prey, and Wolfenstein: The New Order and The New Colossus among many others.
- Tim
Willits, Studio Director, id Software
Tim Willits is the Studio Director at id Software and
is a veteran of the video game industry with more than 23 years of experience.
He brought his game development, design and creative expertise to id Software
in 1995 to work on Quake after impressing the development team
with DOOM levels created in his spare time and distributed
free over the Internet.
Willits is now overseeing development on id
Software’s, RAGE 2. He’s credited with design and leading the
development teams in achieving critical acclaim and industry accolades
for; QUAKE II, QUAKE III Arena, DOOM 3, QUAKE IV, RAGE,
and most recently Quake Champions.
Willits attended the University of Minnesota where he
studied computer science and business.
- Matt
Firor, President and Game Director, ZeniMax Online Studios
Matt is Game
Director of “The Elder Scrolls Online” at ZeniMax Online. Formerly, he was a
co-founder of Mythic Entertainment, and Producer of the 2001 hit MMOPRG “Dark
Age of Camelot”. Going back into the early days of video gaming, he was
designer, producer, writer, and audio designer of 12 other online titles
starting from the late 1980’s. He has also worked as an industry consultant.
Matt will also be
visiting Armageddon Expo 2018, where he will be giving a special presentation
and attending an ESO Community Party. We’ll be sharing more details for these
events soon!
Fans can
catch Pete, Tim and Matt at these panels:
Friday 26
October | 12:00pm | Utopia/Dystopia: Environment-Drive Storytelling | Galah
Theatre
As more continues
to be revealed about the upcoming release of post-apocalyptic Rage 2, Tim
Willits will join Rae Johnston, Editor of Junkee and Al Gibb, CEO of
Mighty Serious, in a panel diving into all things “utopian perfection” and
“dystopian worlds”.
Our perceptions
of our future environment is shaped by differing narratives in scientific
research outcomes and pop-culture musings, which we are exposed to in many
written and visual forms.
With video games
using these perfect environments as key storytelling drivers; from Mirror’s
Edge idealistic urban environment to Fallout’s bleak wastelands- are our actual
future environments easily acknowledged thanks to repeat representation in our
game worlds?
Friday 26
October | 2:30pm | Bethesda in Conversation | EB Theatre
Nuclear apocalypse. Killing demons on Mars. Saving
Tamriel from destruction. Killing Nazis in the 60s. Another, different kind of
apocalypse. More potatoes than you can physically carry. For over 30 years,
Bethesda has been known for crafting award-winning, genre-defining games.
Join Pete Hines, Tim Willits, and Matt Firor as they take you
on a journey through their decades working in games. No fast travel, either.
Friday 26
October | 5:30pm | id Software Retrospective | Main
From Commander Keen to Rage 2, id
Software is in the shooting baddies business. And since 1991, business has been
booming. Join studio director Tim Willits as he delves into
the history of id, hitting the highs, the lows and the untold stories of some
of the longest-running franchises in gaming, including Doom, Quake, and
Wolfenstein.
Saturday 27
October | 2:00pm | Bethesda Trivia | Galah Theatre
Yes, it’s
a PAX staple! We’re sure you know where to find a radscorpion that
wears a pair of glasses, but can Bethesda bigwigs Pete Hines, Tim
Willits, and Matt Firor guess Bradman’s batting average? This time,
the questions go both ways! What do they know? Do they know things? Let’s find
out!
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