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GDC EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag First footage of CCP's Dust 514, console companion to EVE 26 I've always been academically fascinated by EVE Online -- any game with an economy robust enough to have its own crises is worth noting -- but its mechanics have always seemed remote, obtuse, and... GDC 09: The Conduit, the Wii FPS you need to see 22 Even though GDC 2009 is done and gone, we couldn't let The Conduit slip by. This first-person shooter is going to surprise a lot of people when it finally drops. We were able to talk with the guy... GDC 09: CTZ attempts to play Wind of Orbis 34 Located on the show floor of GDC 2009, amongst the random booths, famous people, and piles of swag, lies the place where all good Reverend Anthonies go: the independent games booth... Talking Red Faction and blowing s**t up with Volition 21 I can't be the only one who, as a kid, liked to build things just to knock them down. Sure, the school therapist may have thought I had issues, but come on... knocking things down just feels good... Dead Space wins Audio of the Year at 7th G.A.N.G. Awards 8 EA's survival horror took home top honors at the 7th annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards Show, taking place at GDC 2009 in San Francisco last week. Aside from the Audio of the Year award, the ... GDC 09: Over 17,000 in attendance, all reporting foot pain 4 Okay, so I made that last part up. But my feet hurt bad after the week-long event last week. San Francisco is great, but parts of it are uphill, and those uphill climbs go directly against my laz... Preview: America's Army 3 27 America's Army 3 is going for bigger and better this time around. The sounds are more authentic, the lighting is more realistic, characters move like real soldiers, to so much more. You'll even n... GDC 09: Battlefield Bad Company 2 revealed 18 Last week at GDC, DICE threw a party to give us the first look at Battlefield Bad Company 2. DICE went all out with old school style post cards, little toy tanks and even an ice sculpture tank th... Now this is the greatest Mega64 skit ever 88 Two years ago, I said that this was the greatest Mega64 skit ever. That video has now been topped by their Metal Gear Solid 4 skit that was filmed last week during the Game Developers Conference.... GDC 09: The CryENGINE 3 is next-gen ready 30 Shortly before attending GDC 09, I learned that Crytek announced the CryENGINE 3. I’m not a big PC gamer, so I didn’t really look into the announcement. It’s Crytek, so I knew i... GDC 09: Project Offset is very much alive and kicking 12 Remember when we first heard about Project Offset, that gorgeous first-person shooter set in the realm of fantasy, and then proceeded to hear next to nothing about it since then? Well, it's not d... Dead Rising 2 has multiplayer 17 One of the most bemoaned aspects of Dead Rising (next to the time sensitivity of missions, hard-to-read text and Otis) was the lack of a multiplayer component. Thanks to a probable slip of the to... GDC 09: Hands-on with WB's new OnLive gaming service 37 On the last day of GDC 2009, we got a chance to talk to John Spinale about OnLive, a technology that, as Anthony Burch once said, "just confuses me in my head." Dedicated to rendering a... GDC 09: Player expression through Far Cry 2's level design 16 Now a lead designer at UbiSoft montreal, Jonathan Morin was the lead level designer for Far Cry 2. Considering how much damned fun I had with Far Cry 2 (as previously mentioned) and given Cl... GDC 09: Lionhead experiments revealed 16 No time for clever introductions. Every once in a while Lionhead Studios creates a bunch of experimental videos and demos to test out new design ideas, and this year Peter Molyneux decided to sho... GDC 09: BioWare 'amping' up Mass Effect 2's action 13 Mass Effect wasn’t a competent shooter. Mass Effect 2 could be. In fact, you may even view it as a “shooter RPG.”The good doctor Ray Muzyka recently spoke at GDC and touched on ... GDC 09: Huxley is one part MMO, one part FPS 28 A long time ago, Electronic Gaming Monthly had a giant cover story on a game called Huxley. The main thing I took away from EGM’s preview was that Huxley was going to be the first MMOFPS an... GDC 09: Beyond Balancing 8 My plan was as follows: I'd go to "Fault Tolerance," Clint Hocking's talk on what I assumed was failure design, then I'd go to Jesper Juul's "Beyond Balancing: Using Five Elements ... GDC 09: Live blog of Kojima at Apple Store, San Francisco 3 We're here at the Apple Store in San Francisco, where Hideo Kojima is about to have a "candid discussion" about his career and the making of Metal Gear Solid touch. While we don't think... GDC 09: Destructoid's big fat GDC coverage round-up 4 Game Developers Conference 2009 is coming to a close soon. Our feet hurt from standing and our butts are sore from sitting in on lectures, but we’re still in San Francisco, cranking out sto... GDC 09: Destructoid Discusses DSi, iPhone, and the new PSP 53 When you're at GDC, you hear sh*t. We do. We have. So this evening we walked around San Francisco and talked about what we've heard this week and what we think is coming up. The topic: portable g... GDC 09: In the ring with the Punch-Out!! producer 9 Destructoid's own Ben PerLee got the chance to sit down with Ken Yeeloy, producer with Next Level Games, to talk about their newest remake targeted at the Wii: Punch-Out!!.Discussing everything f... GDC 09: League of Legends was a pleasant surprise 9 Here's my prediction: League of Legends is going to be a popular game. Don't be ashamed if you don't know what it is, though. Even though I've heard the name before, I didn't really know what the... GDC 09: Hands-on Fat Princess 30 One of the games I've been most closely paying attention to in the downloadable space is Fat Princess. The concept, cartoonish design and emphasis on team-based strategy are all things which I ha... GDC 09: Show floor swag round-up 33 Literally minutes after Ben PerLee and I hit the floor, we were already knee deep in swag heaven, and it was nearly impossible to keep us from collecting it all. From Midway's ... GDC 09: I think I get why the Japanese like Monster Hunter 24 There's still a few game series I lack under my gaming belt. I've decided I'll be fine without Starcraft, and I totally passed on the whole Halo thing. But Monster Hunter? There's got to be somet... GDC 09: Diamond Touch: A multi-user touch tabletop 10 Although there are major game companies showing off their newest titles at this year's Game Developers Conference, it's also a great way to see hardware other than our generic consoles pushing ou... GDC 09: Chatting with Nintendo's Rich Amtower 12 Thank goodness for Nintendo's Rich Amtower and the company's Treehouse division.Day two of Game Developers Conference, Dale North arrives from Tokyo in possession of his fancy new lime Nintendo D... GDC 09: Here's what Rock Band could have been called 22 While I think many of us had expected Harmonix to follow up their Guitar Hero success with a full band game, most of us also thought the name "Band Hero" might have been the perfect fit... GDC 09: Hands-on with Batman: Arkham Asylum 26 When Nick asked me if I was okay with spending the entirety of my time at GDC visiting and reporting on conferences, I told him in a high-pitched, nasal voice that if anyone was showing the new B... GDC 09: This Batman: Arkham Asylum video may blow you away 54 Hear that? That's the sound of my jaw dropping. Granted, it doesn't take a whole lot to get me worked up over a videogame these days, but I'll be damned if Batman: Arkham Asylum doesn't look to b... GDC 09: Rock Band 2 'per-song star tracking' patch coming 8 During his session entitled "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Design Lessons Learned from ROCK BAND," Harmonix's Dan Teasdale dropped a bit of information about an upcoming Rock Band 2 upda... GDC 09: All About Noby Noby Boy 21 If ever were there a game I played that would have benefited from a developer explanation of its design decisions, it's Noby Noby Boy. If ever there were a designer who I wanted to see in person ... GDC 09: The lowdown on Rhythm Heaven's English song lyrics 13 During Nintendo president's Satoru Iwata's keynote speech here at the 2009 Game Developer's Conference this week, he showed footage of the localized DS/DSi game Rhythm Tengoku Gold, now named Rhy... GDC 09: Experimental Gameplay Sessions 7 The Experimental Gameplay Sessions talk at last year's GDC was one of my favorites, but also one of the most useless for me as a blogger -- designers showed up and talked about their experimental... GDC 09: EA Mobile announces a bunch of iPhone titles 6 Want to know where the old Electronic Arts went? Just check your Application Store throughout the year. At GDC this week, EA Mobile announced seventeen titles, all of which are slated for a 2009 ... GDC 09: Could games get too politically correct? 20 Videogames have been accused of unnecessary violence, racism, sexism and homophobia in the past, but this is the first time I can remember someone warning that games could become too politically ... GDC 09: Noby Noby Boy coming to the iPhone, might be free 13 Noby Noby Boy is coming to the iPhone. Yesterday, Keita Takahashi, the mind behind Noby, revealed a mobile build of the PlayStation Network title during his session of GDC. The details are slim, ... GDC 09: How silly you'll look playing WarioWare: Snapped! 15 So you thought Nintendo's Bill Trinen looked nuts playing Rock N' Roll Climber? Forget that -- it's old news. The new hontesss for looking like a nutjob while playing a game is WarioWare: Snapped... GDC 09: Bungie will continue to work on Halo 3 post-ODST 13 Rejoice, Halo 3 fans. Bungie will continue work on Halo 3 after Halo: ODST is released, even though the spin-off was said to signal the end of the studio’s work with the source material. &q... GDC 09: Preview: Section 8 23 It’s the future and humans have been leaving Earth to settle on colonies all across space. Everything has been going fine and dandy until one day, some of the colonies stopped all contact w... GDC 09: Hands-on with Punch-Out!! Wii 34 I love Punch-Out!!. You love Punch-Out!!. Everybody loves Punch-Out!!. There's no real surprise there. And since everyone loves Punch-Out!! just as I do, I'm going to go ahead and presumptuously ... GDC 09: Catch Kojima at the Metal Gear Solid Touch event 6 If you didn't get a chance to go to Hideo Kojima's keynote today at GDC, you may still want a chance to see him (I'm pretty sure that goes for anyone who is a fan of the man's work). Luckily, if ... GDC 09: Preview: Firemint Real Racing (iPhone) 4 We need a good iPhone racing game. There's some fun games out there, but none of the ones I've played seem very fulfilling. Some feel silly. Some just feel like you're flipping your phone around ... GDC 09: Telltale Games proved me wrong 12 The new Wallace and Gromit episodic adventure series did not get off to a good start as far as I was concerned. The control scheme on PC which utilizes both the keyboard and mouse felt really awk... GDC 09: New Ratchet & Clank game! A Crack in Time revealed 35 Remember the teaser at the end of PSN expansion Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty that promised to “continue the quest in Fall 2009?” Well, it looks like the game wasn’t kidd... GDC 09: Blizz' talking with Microsoft about a new console 28 If you’re a one-console-future believer, avert your eyes for a few seconds. At a Luminaries Lunch during GDC, Blizzard’s vice president of game design, Rob Pardo, admitted to gamesind... GDC 09: Level 5 show off new Ninokuni screens 12 In a panel entitled "Level 5's Technique to Producing a Hit Game" at this year's GDC, Hiroshi Akira Hino, Level 5 president, spoke about working on Professor Layton and the importance o... GDC 09: A guinea pig with a jet pack? Yup, that's G-Force! 8 Covert spy guinea pigs? Sure, why not. A Jerry Bruckheimer film about a team of covert spy guinea pigs? Yes, that’s happening, and it’s called G-Force. Set to hit theaters this July, ... GDC 09: Rock N' Roll Climber rocks... sort of 25 I'll be the first to admit that Nintendo's Rock N' Roll Climber is not what I had expected. I suppose it would have been a bit much to expect that I'd be playing a groupie game featuring my favor... GDC 09: Hideo Kojima keynote liveblogged 35 It's Hideo Kojima, the guy you know for the cool glasses and those Metal Gear games. The guy who made Drebin. The guy who likes the ducks and frogs. Snake's real daddy. And he's finally accepted ... GDC 09: First look at Dexter iPhone game 12 Confession time -- I don't own an iPhone or a bonesaw. Neither of those things kept Marc Ecko Entertainment from sitting down with me to show off the upcoming Dexter title for Apple's portab... GDC 09: A backstage pass to Guitar Hero's new Home space 4 Right after Sony's unveiling of the new Guitar Hero Home space Backstage here at GDC 2009, we had a chance to talk to Activision's Carlson Choi about what we can expect to see and do in this new ... GDC 09: Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 gaining online co-op 41 Tecmo isn’t known for making appearances at the Game Developers Conference, but that looks to be changing as they were around the other day showing off Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for the PlayStat... GDC 09: Modern Warfare 2 teaser released, game dated 57 The 9th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards ended with a bang -- a bang that could only be brought by a teaser for a hype-inducing game of Modern Warfare 2's level. Infinity Ward put the debut v... GDC 09: Industry not taking full advantage of "the cloud" 29 A panel at yesterday's inaugural Games Beat event derailed into interesting territory, a realm which the announcement of OnLive later in the evening drew into sharp relief. While the plan initial... GDC 09: Blood-splattered Dexter iPhone you'd kill for 28 Today, we sat down with folks behind the upcoming Dexter iPhone title to get a sneak peek at the game which is scheduled to hit the App Store in Summer 2009. We'll have more on the actual game la... GDC 09: Duke is back, or so all of this stuff says 22 The pictures here were from an event for several games, and we thought you might like to see some of the big news items from the event, namely napkins and coasters. Yep. Hard-hitting news here. A... GDC 09: New Resistance 2 DLC and patch coming up 10 Here in the PlayStation Blog Lounge at GDC 2009, we got a first hand look at the upcoming Resistance 2 DLC coming your way tomorrow. 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