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The folks over at GameSetWatch—the blog owned by the same company that run the Game Developers Conference—posted a text adventure/"interactive experiment" version of the conference today, put together by game creator Jim Munroe. More »
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not a movie game. More »
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While Harmonix senior designer Dan Teasdale had intentions of talking about LEGO Rock Band during his GDC talk, "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Design Lessons Learned From Rock Band," that obviously didn't happen. More »
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*That is, unless you actually attended this year's Game Developers Conference and the associate Independent Game Festival Awards, because these two skits aired during the ceremony. And they're quite good. More »
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Ngmoco's LiveFire, a multiplayer first-person shooter designed from the ground up for the iPhone, is a valiant attempt to bring the fast-paced genre to the portable, but still needs quite a bit of work. More »
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By all appearances, R.U.S.E. is another attempt by Ubisoft to redefine strategy gaming in a way to be more attractive for casual fans, slowing the pace of real-time strategy and adding depth to the genre. More »
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In Battlestations: Pacific you don't just have a chance to play on the side of Japan, you can experience a World War II where Japan wins the war. More »
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Iconic 70s superhero Iron Fist will be among the two dozen playable characters featured in upcoming action title Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. More »
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Brütal Legend is much more than an action game with sharp writing and a heavy metal soundtrack. More »
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I'd been dreading writing up what happened at the last GDC panel I attended, and not because it was boring to sit through. More »
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This year's Game Developers Conference was, as is often the case, quite a bit of fun. More »
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There are plenty of things to talk about when it comes to Wii shooter The Conduit, but none are more important then the controls and the absurd number of ways you can customize them. More »
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Dragon Age: Origins Lead Writer David Gaider and BioWare heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have different ideas about what high and low fantasy is; which may foretell a genre crisis for the game. More »
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Dexter is a Showtime series about a forensics expert that secretly murders guilty suspects and collects samples of their blood. This is the game of that show made by a clothing designer. More »
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If you wonder why Dead Space cribs from other material, consider the fact that they were the sole new IP developed in competition with The Godfather, Lord of the Rings and The Simpsons. More »
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The DS version of upcoming movie-game G.I. Joe will be a top-down shooter with a slight role-playing game element to it, the developers say. More »
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America's Army 3, the upcoming iteration of the real Army's free first-person shooter recruiting tool, will be available on Steam when it launches. More »
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After a record 2008, attendance at the 2009 Game Developers Conference dipped slightly but still stood strong, with more that 17,000 industry professionals making the trip. More »
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The sequel to Call of Juarez is actually a prequel, set 20 years before the original western shooter. More »
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Battlestations: Pacific is a very fan-driven project. More »
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Wolfenstein has a lot to live up to. More »
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Titan Studios' PlayStation 3 game Fat Princess has already riled up the more sensitive of the internet's residents with its chubby, cake-fed royalty. But its developers aren't toning down their design decisions in response. More »
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While waiting to speak with Q-Games Dylan Cuthbert and PixelJunk Eden artist Baiyon, we burned through a new level from the PixelJunk Eden Encore expansion, enjoying the new "mirror mode" gameplay. More »
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The upcoming G.I. Joe video game won't rely on just the movie, instead the game will tap into 45 years of history, from comics to toys to the cartoons, the developers say. More »
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Peter Molyneux still wouldn't give up the goods on his new game at the "Lionhead Experiment Revealed" panel, but he did give us a glimpse into how Lionhead let LittleBigPlanet slip through their fingers. More »
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The word Excite isn't the only thing that Excite Truck and Excitebots: Trick Racing have in common. Anyone who spent time with the off-road Wii racer may notice a few similarities between the games. More »
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Mystical weapons and plentiful Nazis remain a mainstay in the latest iteration of first-person shooter Wolfenstein. More »
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A first-look at Battlefield Bad Company 2's gameplay reveals a lot more destruction, an icy setting and plenty of gun play. More »
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As "spiritual successor" to the Baldur's Gate series, BioWare's upcoming fantasy RPG has lot to live up to. Not to mention a console port expectation that no PC RPG has ever fulfilled. More »
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Last week's annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco gave gamers a tantalizing glimpse at things to come in the world of interactive entertainment. More »
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The 2009 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is done and dusted, and churned out the stories. More »
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More details have surfaced with regards to that "6000 zombies" claim that came out of a Dead Rising 2 talk at the Game Developers Conference last week. More »
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The Game Developers Conference is for game developers, yes, but that doesn't mean there's no showroom floor. There's an expo floor. And here's Adam walking around it, sticking microphones in people's faces! More »
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So it was with God of War III, so it is with Uncharted 2. If something is going to be shown behind "closed doors" at GDC, there's a good chance somebody will film it regardless. More »
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Dead Rising was great not for the sluggish controls, or the annoying mission structure, or Otis. It was great because it had a zombie horde. Well, Dead Rising 2 is looking to trump that. More »
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TimeGate Studios' Section 8 isn't as crazy as it sounds. In fact, the Southpeak-published PC and Xbox 360 first-person shooter is pretty level-headed, as the game's developers are looking to correct long-standing game convention quirks. More »
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Witness with joy and wonder in your tear-filled eyes as someone else plays Nintendo's follow up to Excite Truck, Excitebots. More »
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Implying that EA's Dead Space blatantly borrowed from Capcom's Resident Evil 4 may sound like a bad thing. It's not. Because, as senior producer Chuck Beaver said, there are dangers to doing "too much new." More »
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Monster Games sequel to Excite Truck, the beastly and bug-filled stunt racer Excitebots, has won us over—even those of us who didn't particularly care for the Wii launch original game. Why? Super Sandwiches. More »
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