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Handed out to speakers at this year's Game Developers Conference was a cool little pack of playing cards featuring the face, name and title of some of the industries top players.
While the deck's box says that placement of photos was random (except conference higher-ups Jamil Moledina and Meggan Scavio who are the deck's Jokers), IGDA executive director Jason Della Rocca did manage to land on the Ace of Clubs card. I actually wish they had made the face cards be all "GDC All Stars." Hit the jump for shots of all of the playing cards.
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lawl....tommy tallerico.....
Interesting.
Man thats excellent.
Its the stalker spread!
This is just... just... no.... lmao
I'd hate to be a queen as a guy.
Will Wright is a Queen?
I fail, I only recognize three...but then again I can hardly see some of them.
Haha Tommy Talarico got the 3 of spades. I didn't see Mark Rein, Cliffy B or Gabe Newell up there. What's up with that GDC?
Does this mean we should get our pitchforks and torches, buy the next flight to SF, in hopes of reaping in millions of reward $$$ from the FBI?
I could use some thick wads to cash to pad by Xbox 360 with. The table has been unstable lately and I need something about 1 1/2 inch thick to level out the table...
I'm gonna go with ghei on this one. Neat for a little free gift I suppose. Otherwise ghei imo.
I wonder how much they'll get ebay'd for though.
If this becomes a prize in a Kotaku contest, you can rest assure I will murder every other contestant.
I a surprised that Jade Raymond wasn't listed as a joker.
:puts on flamesuit:
Barely recognize anyone, but it's an interesting approach
tell me I didn't see Uwe Boll in there...
Did sakurai get a card?
Why did Miyamoto get the 5 of hearts??? Also I don't see Kojima (correct me if I'm wrong) but I see Tommy Tallarico????? WHAT THE F!
Hot girls on cards costs money, please tell me nerds on cards was atleast free, if not payed you money for accepting them. Atleast they come fully clothed, thank god!
LOLOL!!
Thats awesome..I'll be checking Ebay soon ;0
I can't make out the images. :( Darn!
Haha, I've been playing Mercenaries too much. My first reaction was "What did they do to deserve this?"
As will I.
Nice to know someone else google searched "Shigeru Miyamoto" and decided on that picture.
@MiyamotosChin:
XD
My first thought was the Iraq playing cards with Saddam's regime people on them.
God dammit, I need these cards!
Where are the megatons that people were claiming would be announced at GDC?
@DigitalHero: If they don't come you can expect a megaton a-bomb to go off! (index finger on da button, index finger on da button.)
@DigitalHero: Those will probably happen during the conference or something. Yanno.
Now be sure that when you capture or kill them all you get a picture of the body or you won't get your reward money.
shouldnt Miyamoto be the ace of spades?
@Arttemis:
Will Wright is Queen of Hearts...which is pretty hilarious.
Miyamoto should definitely be placed as Ace of Spades. Pretty much all the other "legends" up there acknowledge him has the father of modern gaming in some way.
Whacky...........in the masturbatory sense.
@OmegaVader: From looking at it, I think they just kinda randomly put the people to the cards.
I will agree though, most of the head honchos should be face cards or aces. Anything less is shoddy work!
Where's everybody's favorite developer, David Jaffe! Well everyone's favorite drunken, PR-nightmare, tell all?
Damn. I was going to say Joker=Romero.
Nifty cards though, don't think it will fare too well on the hold'em nights though :/
@CONFUSEDgam3r: Beat me to it. I wanted to see a Jaffe picture, face contorted, middle finger at the ready.
What the heck is that in the King of Clubs? It looks like a nun, or a guy in a bad panda outfit or something.
Sign me up for whatever Lady Margarette's studio is pumping out in the Q4.
It would have been funny if Jack Thompson made it to joker in that deck.
cool I want a set
I can't find Kojima, but I know he must be on there because it'd be HERESY if he wasn't.
And what's everyone's problem with Tommy Tallarico being on there? He writes pretty good music AND runs Video Games Live (I think). I'd say that's pretty important.
@Iceman B.: He'd sue.
@Billkwando: "Whacky...........in the masturbatory sense."
Couldn't agree more. I'm sure it's meant as a little tongue-in-cheek throwaway gift but still, it's a little creepy and makes the industry seem rather narcissistic.
I mean, more so than usual.
@NotAZombie:
''Haha Tommy Talarico got the 3 of spades. I didn't see Mark Rein, Cliffy B or Gabe Newell up there. What's up with that GDC?''
Gabe Newell was too fat to fit on the cards. Im surprised Tommy Tallarico is on there though; his head is too big :P
Who got the ace of spades? I don't recognize him.
Trading cards would be awesome - kinda like Top Trumps. I'm googling video game top trumps now, and I'll probably find exactly that.
Its going to be creepy when they find some psycho stalker with a wall with all those cards on it with crosses going through some of them. Just a warning.
Now I know the answer to that age-old question - "What do Shigeru Myamoto, Chemical Ali, and some naked people have in common?"
no way im buying that deck.imagine to see miyamoto's face everytime you play poker.i mean no offense,he's a genius,but he's damn ugly.(no offense)
Mm, now I want to make a Most Wanted playing card deck for game journalists and critics.
not exactly playing cards but this reminded me of this comic
[www.penny-arcade.com]
Why is Molyneux in there? He sucks. The only decent game he's really done was Populous. Everything else has been extremely lackluster... and it's almost 100% his fault with his inability to be honest about his game(s).
I wouldn't mind so much if he was honest right before the games came out... but he continues to claim untrue things until a few months after Release.
I mean, up until the WEEK before Fable came out, I was reading stories about how Fable would provide 100 hours of gameplay. By this time, he should know full-well most of his claims were false... yet, he continued to spew them to sell his game. Just so it will still sell well enough to be granted a lackluster sequel.
Oh and every single one of Molyneux's ideas for Fable 2 that I've heard him talking about have been EXTREMELY stupid.
His idea for the Dog is retarded. Why focus so much on this Dog instead of, I don't know, the family, wives... NPCs... Or how about focusing on some of the features that didn't make it into Fable 1?
The fact that he thinks he can create a game that will make the player feel "genuine love" or "genuinely loved" is ridiculous. And anyone feeling this love is a poor, poor, unloved sap.
Do want. :D Though, I have to admit it's a bit creepy.