Games Workshop
Dungeons & Dragons
Fighting Fantasy
Lara Croft:Tomb Raider

16 million gamebook copies sold in 25 languages

And he’s coming to You Are In Control 2010.

Keynote speaker Ian Livingstone is Life President of Eidos and one of the UK’s founding fathers of interactive entertainment. In 1975 he founded Games Workshop with Steve Jackson and launched Dungeons & Dragons in Europe.  In 1977 he launched White Dwarf, the UK’s first interactive games magazine. In 1982, again with Steve Jackson, he wrote The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the first in the Fighting Fantasy series of interactive gamebooks with sales in excess of 16 million copies in 25 languages. He wrote more than 20 books in the series. He served as Executive Chairman of Eidos plc from 1995 until 2002.  At Eidos he helped to secure many of the company’s major franchises including Lara Croft:Tomb Raider and Hitman.