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XDS 2026

Vince Pavey 29th May 2025 Events

Venue: Vancouver, Canada

Dates: September 8-11, 2026

Website: XDS

Established in 2013, External Development Summit (XDS) is the only annual, international games industry event with a primary focus on external development for art, animation, audio, software engineering, QA and localization.

XDS gathers hundreds of international attendees from over 55 countries to advance the practice of external development for the games industry with four days of structured networking in Vancouver, Canada, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

About Vince Pavey

Vince is a writer from the North-East of England who has worked on comics for The Beano and Doctor Who. He likes to play video games and eat good food. Sometimes he does both at the same time, but he probably shouldn’t.

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