Pirates of the Caribbean helmsman Gore Verbinski keynoted this year’s DICE summit, doing his Hollywood best to inspire a packed crowd of game developers with grand visions of development utopia, all the while slamming financier Disney for limiting his involvement in Pirates of the Caribbean licensed games. The director of the Pirates trilogy told DICE attendees that “Gaming is no longer dismissible as a hobby” pointing to his own recent and “visceral” experiences with games like flOw, Bioshock, Second Life and Halo 3.