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If your typical San Francisco convention-goer is cruising for anything when he's in town, he's probably up in the Tenderloin scouting hookers. Not Fork Parker. The CEO spokesmascot for Devolver Digital (publishers of Serious Sam) will be trawling SoMa outside the Moscone Center in that there bus, listening to new pitches for the next great indie game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5879774&view=rss&microfeed=true The Game Developers Conference has announced that Epic Games head Cliff Bleszinski will be hosting the Game Developers Choice awards, which take place the week of GDC. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5876880&view=rss&microfeed=true The Independent Games Festival (IGF) has announced the finalists for this year's IGF Awards, which will be held at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco in March. Some truly great games on this list. We'll have more coverage of the IGF in the coming weeks. More »
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The nominees for the 2012 Game Developers Choice awards have been announced. The awards, which will be held at March's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, are one (if not the) most prestigious awards ceremonies in gaming. They occur the same night and location as the Independent Games Festival (IGF) awards. More »
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The Independent Games Festival has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft Games Studios. The partnership will involve a jury of indie game developers awarding an "XBLA Prize" (XBLA being Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service), which will be given out at the IGF, a festival and awards ceremony that happens each March at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. More »
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Some believe the future of video games lies in the web-based streaming of triple A titles. Others feel that game consoles and PCs will one day be replaced with mobile devices. Game industry luminary Jamil Moledina sees a future dominated by social action games that people can play regardless of platform. More »
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Okabu knows it's not easy being green, but they sure do make it look appealing. More »
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In this moving six-minute microtalk from GDC 2011, Independent Games Festival chairman Brandon Boyer champions the countless independent developers that still have something sincere to say through gaming. More »
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Not only can you now relive this year's Game Developers Conference keynote from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who spoke about the creation of Kirby and the devaluation of games in "Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future," you can experience the best part of GDC 2011: the classic game post mortems. More »
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The future of mind-controlled video games looks very much like the past of arcade games. More »
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There was a time when video game developers seemed to be seeking approval from a wider, more mainstream audience. More »
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One of the world's most popular Kart racing games is coming to Apple portables and Android devices soon, and no it's not the one created by Nintendo. More »
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Fresh off the surreptitiously filmed, embargo-breaking train, it's the video footage of the engine that we previously showed you only in stills. This is the engine Epic describes as beyond what modern consoles can do. It's just one of many signs that a new crop of consoles are coming 'round the bend. [VentureBeat] More »
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The future of gaming is more than 60 years old. More »
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We don't know what the future of video games will look like. Nobody knows the future! Not even Epic. But we can speculate, and that lets us speculate that it'll look a lot like this. More »
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Of those who started Heavy Rain, 72 percent finished it, according to the president of the studio behind the game. That's a rather striking number for any video game, especially compared to another major hit released about the same time. More »
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By all accounts, "No F@*#king Respect: Social Game Developers Rant Back" was a hit at Game Developers Conference 2011. A standing-room only crowd listened to a panel of eminent designers address the virtues of and double-standards applied to social games. More »
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Video removed as a courtesy to EA.Shot on the sly at GDC, the Italian gaming site Multiplayer.it provides this peek at the visual tour de force of Battlefield 3 - including urban combat with buckling pavement and crumbling buildings, and even an aerial sequence? More »
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Game designer Peter Molyneux, he of Populous, Fable, Black & White, Kinect's Project Milo and lots of really great promises, won a lifetime achievement award at the Game Developers Conference this week. More »
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At left is the bona fide Cliff Bleszinski, design director for Epic Games. At right is Twitter's Fakecliffy_b - the spoof account run by Matthew Rex Downham, himself a designer of iOS applications and games. Real Cliffy B and Fakecliffy_b met, at last, at GDC 2011. More »
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Game Developer Conference attendees this week were asked to use a single pieces of square paper to help recreate an 8-foot by 20-foot mural by illustrator Jude Buffman. More »
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Friday at the Game Developers Conference found Kotaku's newshounds still hard at work in the city by the bay, getting their hands and eyes on everything being discussed and displayed at the year's first major games industry conference. More »
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The next great innovation in shooting video game bad guys is focused not on our virtual guns, but on our virtual feet. More »
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The truth of the matter is that Minecraft maestro Markus "Notch" Persson won five awards at the Game Developers Conference this week: an audience choice award, an indie grand prize, a best downloadable game trophy, another for innovation and one for best debut game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5776679&view=rss&microfeed=true Rumored for more than a month, Bungie's next project is an MMO, the developer confirmed today at GDC 2011. But David Aldridge, the studio's lead network engineer, said it is not "WoW in space," referencing earlier reports of the project. Aldridge did not give any other details, such as a title, but we've already been told it's to be called "Destiny," among other details. [IGN] More »
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Hanford Lemoore's experimental game sounded bad at first. More »
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Kotaku's reporting team is in its second day of news-wrangling at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, bringing back details, screens, footage and anything else bubbling up at one of the industry's leading conferences. More »
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Yesterday Sony unveiled Move.Me, a software application that allows hobbyists and academics access to the Move controller to do things like operating robots remotely. Today, we see the Move operating a robot remotely. More »
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Eric Chahi, the creator of moody landmark adventure game Out of This World (aka Another World), once fought with his publisher, Interplay, via fax machine. Things got so bad at one point he attacked Interplay's offices with the dreaded "infinite fax." More »
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Octodad is the video game tale of one suit-wearing dad whose wife and kids don't realize he is an Octopus. Despite what its developers from DePaul University told me today at the Game Developers Conference, I'm sure it's not a documentary. I'm also sure that they've created a Kinect demo of the game, because otherwise playing this game would just feel too normal. More »
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There is blood on the wall, a smear that drags down to the floor, bits of hair swaying gently in the breeze. It's not in the game booting up on the computer, but in the mock-bamboo and straw cabana in which I'm sitting, somewhere in an office tucked away in San Francisco's Moscone Center. More »
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Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve has been toying with new ways to use biofeedback—heart rate, facial expressions, eye-tracking, levels of physical arousal—for years. What does that mean for the future of people who like Valve video games? How about controlling games with your eyes? More »
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Days after the haunting, evocative trailer for Dead Island showed the world that little girls can die in zombie outbreaks too, rumors hit that the game had landed a movie deal. That's not exactly true, the developers tell us. More »
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After David Cage's speech at the Game Developers Conference yesterday, I heard the chatter of people whose minds have been opened, lives possibly changed. More »
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Sony brought one of the most dazzling games for its new NGP system, Uncharted, to its talk at GDC 2011. While we've seen some of this gameplay before, even shaky cam footage that doesn't capture the NGP's big, bright OLED screen is exciting. More »
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The Game Developers Choice Awards gives developers a chance to say which games they like best. This year it seems what they liked best was Red Dead Redemption. More »
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The next PlayStation Portable, Sony's recently announced NGP, won't rival the PlayStation 3 in terms of raw computing power, despite its impressively good looks. Sony engineers say the NGP instead sits about "halfway" between the original PSP and PS3. More »
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Each year the Independent Games Festival awards recognize what are often the most interesting, most innovative games of the year. This year was no different. More »
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A Homefront promotion for the Game Developers Conference involved releasing hundreds of red balloons in the downtown of one of the most environmentally conscious cities in America. Many floated into its neighboring bay. Bad idea? Yeah, you could say that. [Update] GameStop has released a statement, saying publisher THQ initiated the promotion and used environmentally-friendly balloons. More »
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Imagine a sprawling open-world game like inFamous 2 for the PlayStation 3, filled with countless user-created levels for you to explore. Then watch this trailer of the newly-revealed feature and see how close you got. More »
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