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Think Services, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference, along with the Independent Games Festival, have announced entering a new partnership with iPhone game publisher ngmoco. The agreement adds a new 'Best iPhone Game' category and a $10,000 prize to the indie mobile competition, bringing the tot... |
8 October 2008
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Fable 2 is going to be big. Peter Molyneux points that out to anyone who's got the ears and the interest to listen. And there are quite a few of those, apparently, judging by the sales that the original Fable brought in (about 3,5 million copies) and by the reception of any new piece of news about the new game. ... |
25 February 2008
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Capybara Games, an well-known developer of mobile games represented by Flashman Studios, took home two coveted Independent Games Festival (IGF) Mobile awards - one for Best Audio Achievement and one for Best Mobile Game overall - for their critically-acclaimed Critter Crunch title for mobile platforms. The IGF Mobile... |
25 February 2008
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The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is, to some, the new E3. That implies more game developers, artists, storytellers and publishers talking and sharing ideas about the future of gaming. An E3 grade conference implies demos for the masses, trailers on HD giant screens, booths where people can play tomorr... |
25 February 2008
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Just before the GDCA announced Portal was this year's GOTY, a lesser known event had taken place on the same stage. The IGF rewarded independent or indie developers for the games they had created in 2007. Where's the hype, where's the drama, where's the relevance? Well, a couple of years ago, a te... |
22 February 2008
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At the GDC, Rob Pardo, Blizzard's Senior Vice President of Game Design, hosted a conference, called "Blizzard's Approach to Multiplayer Game Design". Hell, he's certainly over-qualified to give such a lecture seeing how World of Warcraft keeps breaking records both financially and in terms of players&#... |
22 February 2008
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The GDC is the place for launching new and ambitious projects, as the buzz from the gaming crowd is almost guaranteed. LEGO representative Mark Hansen has offered a flurry of details regarding LEGO's upcoming MMO universe.LEGO expects every man that has ever played or ever dreamed of playing with its bricks to b... |
22 February 2008
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The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is an annual event that allows game developers to meet, exchange ideas, make deals, demonstrate technology, show off games, act all geeky and, last but not least, dish out some awards.As the event in San Francisco keeps getting bigger, with some in the industry calling ... |
21 February 2008
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You know those Japanese shows where scantly clad women throw themselves at the feet of some unsuspecting 20-something that's never even seen an exposed boob in his entire life? Yup, that's most of the "hentai" out there for you. If a GDC conference speaker is right, you're going to see a lot more of it... |
21 February 2008
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News recently broke that Microsoft might acquire Epic Games, the makers of high impact series Unreal Tournament and developers of console macho hit Gears of War. Travis Moses, assistant editor at game magazine GamePro, wrote: "Microsoft will buy Epic Games for $1 billion this summer" in the new issue of the magazine.... |
20 February 2008
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Nokia announced a strong presence at this year's Game Developers Conference (18 - 22 February, San Francisco), bringing new N-Gage and SNAP Mobile games, live demos of its N-Gage First Access program, plus a keynote by Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Markets, Nokia. "This year is our... |
19 February 2008
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The Game Developers Choice Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of a developer who has made an indelible impact on the craft of game development and games as a whole. This year's winner is the legendary Sid Meier, the one responsible for innovatory strategy titles such as Civilizatio... |
10 January 2008
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Finally some details on Home... Apparently a Sony insider has leaked some hot information on Sony's social service to IGN.com. Although Home will leave you with an overall good impression, there are some minuses to the service as well. Not serious ones but still... Just to get you interested in reading on, it ha... |
31 August 2007
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Ever wonder why Sony's PlayStation3 costs so damn much? Surely you have, but have you seen the answer? Probably not, but leaving aside that Sony's competing with Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade and Nintendo's Wii Channel providing PS3 users with PlayStation Home, which sounds pretty good (much like L... |
10 April 2007
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The GDC hosted a good number of events among which, Sony revealed some of PlayStation Home's features. The upcoming service from Sony has an impressive resumé, but the company didn't answer all the questions asked regarding the service. 1UP did a pretty good job at revealing some of the PS Home's featu... |
13 March 2007
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It's a known fact that piracy is game developers' worst nightmare and especially for those developers who work on PC games. PC games are the ones getting hacked the most, and of course PCs, rather than consoles and console games, so you see how they both go together so well. Naturally, evil geniuses have fo... |
12 March 2007
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This year's GDC hosted a lot of great events in the world of games, among which Sony's speech regarding their social service-the PlayStation Home, that looks an awful lot like the Second Life sim, Nintendo's Super Paper Mario in-game footage and many others. GDC also hosted the presentation of Ncsoft&#... |
8 March 2007
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The game is another winner from the series that looks absolutely flawless but keeping the original Mario gameplay experience. You've certainly seen some screenshots of the game but how about some in-game footage? No? Well, you should know that this year's GDC showed off some pretty neat stuff in the Super P... |
8 March 2007
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Why it wasn't called Killzone 2 or Killzone something, we don't know at the moment, but it clearly wasn't anything anyone had seen before. 1UP was there and saw the whole footage of the new PS2 exclusive. They say that visuals weren't that impressive, almost intentionally made to look that way per... |
8 March 2007
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As you might already know, Harrison has a big speech coming up for today at the GDC 07, where developers are promised to see the stunning versatility of Unreal Engine 3, on which many shooters and adventure games for the PS3 console will be built, info regarding how developers will use Linux to create content for the... |
7 March 2007
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Even though Sony has God of War II on the launching pad ready to hit the U.S. on March 13 and Europe on March 30, there is serious reason to believe that God of War is heading towards the handheld gaming system. Why, you ask? Well, nothing serious to be really taken into consideration, other than the words "coming 20... |
6 March 2007
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Giving a keynote at the Independent Game Summit at GDC, Jeff Minter, llama game designer misplaced the game Gridrunner . As he was flipping through the folders on the laptop, everyone paying attention to the big screen saw, for maybe a fraction of a second, something that looked like a folder entitled "naughty."Inse... |
6 March 2007
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Company spokesmen just love teasing the press don't they? Well, it is the only way they can answer back for all the BS that is sometimes written about them. Sony's Game Developers Conference on Wednesday should bring up some pretty neat details about various aspects of the 23 March launch of the PS3 in Euro... |
6 March 2007
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