Tim Sweeney's View of Programming Languages (Score 1)

At the POPL 2006 (Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, an academic conference) last month, Tim Sweeney (of Epic Games and Unreal Engine fame) gave an invited talk on the future of programming languages. You can read his slides online.

It is worth noting that he seems to think that static types, particularly an expressive dependent type system, is the way to go for the future of game development.