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GDC 08: New Bionic Commando Shots Look Lush

By Nick Breckon, Feb 21, 2008 8:45am PST

More environment renders than anything else, only two of these Bionic Commando screenshots have any shooting or swinging going on. Normally that'd...

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"For fans of the music in the original game, be sure to listen to Hero of the Past on ..."

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GDC 08: Portal Takes Top Honors At Choice Awards

By Nick Breckon, Feb 21, 2008 8:08am PST

Valve's hit puzzler Portal took home the prestigious Game of the Year award at the 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards last night in San...

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"Man, good for the Narbacular Drop team. To take this concept from a school project to one of the ..."

- Serpico74 see all 14 comments

GDC 08: Street Fighter 4 Impressions

By Chris Faylor, Feb 21, 2008 12:57am PST

It is truly a thing of beauty.

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"This is retarded, but I have to ask - Has anyone ever called you "FAILER" OMG YOU FAIL, HURRRR."

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GDC 08: Ray Kurzweil Is A Terminator

By Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 11:27pm PST

To: All GDC attendees From: Nick Breckon Subject: Ray Kurzweil is a Terminator. Think I'm crazy? You're the one livin' in a fuckin' dream,...

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"Hmm... You might be on to something. I'm off to make some homemade pipe bombs and pound a ..."

- disaac see all 11 comments

GDC 08: Meet the PC Gaming Alliance

By Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 9:07pm PST

See that arrow down there? The PC Gaming Alliance wants you to think of the PC industry as that arrow. Like a tall, unstable orange house, it...

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"I'm cautiously optimistic. Having a group to advocate PC Gaming as a platform could be really ..."

- doc.solo see all 7 comments

GDC 08: Sid Meier on Civilization, Portal, and Dinosaurs

By Chris Faylor, Feb 20, 2008 4:46pm PST

"It's kinda a golden age of gaming. We're seeing some great games out there." But after rifling through a half dozen titles he's played...

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"It's nice to see a dev who still has his heart in the right place and is all about making games ..."

- ErikTehRed see all 15 comments

GDC 08: Ninja Gaiden 2 Demonstration

By Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 4:21pm PST

Fresh from the Game Developers Conference is this Ninja Gaiden II demonstration from developer Team Ninja. As was announced earlier today, Ninja...

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"The movie was pretty boring. Either the person playing sucked (he spammed one move and two ..."

- walker270 see all 41 comments

GDC 08: Ken Levine on Storytelling in Games

By Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 12:16pm PST

"The bad news is, for storytellers, nobody cares about your stupid story," began BioShock designer Ken Levine, a divisive introduction to a talk on...

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"ya know, one unfortunate thing about BioShock was the amount of publicity leading its release. ..."

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GDC 08: Fable 2 Features Cooperative Play, New Screenshots Released

By Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 11:52am PST

Lionhead's Peter Molyneux took the stage to unveil a few new details of his studio's upcoming sequel Fable 2 during the Microsoft keynote at the...

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"I loved it too - and was blissfully oblivious to all the hype preceeding it. I actually only ..."

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GDC 08: Gears of War 2 Hitting in November

By Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 11:41am PST

The sequel to Epic Games' Gears of War will be hitting stores this November as an Xbox 360 exclusive. The news was confirmed by Epic's Cliff...

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"From what I remember, Gears did the "extremely high resolution texture next to crappy low-res ..."

- walker270 see all 239 comments

GDC 08: Ninja Gaiden 2 Release Confirmed for June 3; New Replay Feature Revealed

By Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 11:30am PST

Ninja Gaiden II will arrive in North America on June 3, Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki announced today while speaking during Microsoft's keynote at...

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"Oh dear... I... what is this... was that... happiness? Is that what I'm feeling? Oh my... I ..."

- kallanta see all 10 comments

GDC 08: Community Games Coming to Xbox Live

By Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Feb 20, 2008 11:10am PST

During the Microsoft keynote Game Developers Conference today, chief XNA architect Chris Satchell announced "Xbox Live Community Games," a new...

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"What is the possibility of self distributing? Say I put together a game and want my friends to ..."

- Str8Dog see all 27 comments

GDC 08: Too Human Trailers Released

By Maarten Goldstein, Feb 20, 2008 8:12am PST

To go along with our new preview and this set of screenshots, two new Too Human trailers are now available. Both videos offer gameplay footage from...

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"Agreed. It seems to me that 3rd person games are more for the mastabatory enjoyment of watching ..."

- comiekazie see all 37 comments

GDC 08: Too Human Impressions

By Chris Faylor, Feb 19, 2008 11:01pm PST

After years of talk and hands-off demonstrations, Silicon Knights' long-in-development action RPG Too Human finally made its playable debut...

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"It sounded more like the camera kept 'sticking' to the mob instead of the camera being overall ..."

- melkore see all 25 comments

GDC 08: PC Gaming Alliance Officially Formed

By Nick Breckon, Feb 19, 2008 8:30pm PST

A consortium of corporate giants ranging from Microsoft to Intel joined hands in an effort to advance the PC gaming platform today, officially...

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"Epic don't (see: Unreal Tournament 3). Microsoft seem to actively prohibit GFW branding ..."

- Optimaximal see all 68 comments