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06.28.12
David Perry Demonstrates Bulletstorm Streaming through Gaikai on Google Chrome

Gaikai CEO David Perry was at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco to give a real-time demonstration of Epic Games Bullestorm streaming through Gaikai on a Samsung Chromebox. Gaikai is working with Google to allow PC users to stream top-quality games through the Chrome browser or Chrome OS without needing Java or Flash. Perry’s demo can be seen in the video below.

04.03.12
Epic Games China Debuts New PC Shooter Mercenary Ops

The rest of the world is about to get their hands on Epic Games China’s Mercenary Ops. The PC-exclusive, third-person perspective shooter launched in China back in 2010. New publisher Delkans is launching the Unreal Engine 3 game in the U.S. and Europe this summer. Developed in Shanghai by a large number of ex-Ubisoft Tom Clancy developers, the game is being updated for the English-speaking gaming audience. Check out the game in action from this exclusive Game Developers Conference (GDC 2012) video interview below.

03.22.12
David Cage Pushes the Envelope of Interactive Entertainment with KARA and New Sony Game

One of the most talked-about presentations at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2012) in San Francisco was David Cage’s KARA. The video, which can be seen below, employs new performance capture technology that Quantic Dream is using for its next game.

03.12.12
GDC 2012: New Horror Game Phobos Honored at Game Connection

SAN FRANCISCO -- Game Connection announced that independent developer Wolpertinger Games' upcoming title Phobos has won the Game Connection America 2012 Best Selected Project award. Featuring a unique art style and a tense, twisted plot, Phobos provides a highly immersive experience for fans of suspense and horror game genres and is currently in development for major platforms, including Xbox LIVE. Game Connection took place in San Francisco in tandem with the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2012).

03.12.12
GDC 2012: The Industry Trade Show Breaks a Record with 22,500 Attendees

SAN FRANCISCO – The Game Developers Conference (GDC 2012) is officially in the record books. The world’s largest and longest-running event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games held to its title of “largest” with a record-breaking 22,500 game industry professionals making the trek to the Moscone Center in San Francisco. That’s a 17% increase in attendance over the previous year’s event.  Following the success of the show, organizers have announced that GDC 2013 will return to the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco from Monday, March 25 to Friday, March 29, 2013, – with a call for lecture submissions to open this summer. 

03.09.12
GDC 2012: Fez Brings Home Top Prize at Independent Games Festival

SAN FRANCISCO -- Montreal-based developer Polytron Corporation proved 2D and 3D environments can get along in Fez, the unique perspective-shifting platformer which earned the Seumas McNally Award for Best Independent Game and the $30,000 grand prize this evening at the 14th Annual Independent Games Festival, hosted by the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. 

03.07.12
GDC 2012: Canada Is About More Than Just Hockey, Eh?

SAN FRANCISCO -- According to Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, “a good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” And that’s exactly how the game is being played in the thriving Ontario Technology Corridor, as evidenced by “hockey stick” expansions by companies including Google Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), Gameloft and Arkadium.

03.07.12
GDC 2012: Sony Expands PlayStation Suite to Mobile Developers

SAN FRANCISCO -- With mobile gaming a major theme at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC 2012), Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that it will release the open beta version of PlayStation Suite SDK to content developers in April 2012 and the official version later this year.  Through the introduction of these SDKs, SCE will offer a more streamlined content development environment for content developers — from large game development companies to small, independent shops — and further expand the world of PlayStation® to open operating system based portable devices.

03.05.12
GDC 2012: The Game Industry Converges in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- The 2012 Game Developers Conference (GDC 2012), the world’s largest and longest running event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games begins today and will run through Friday, March 9 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. The premiere conference for game development professionals worldwide, GDC offers attendees a consummate forum to network, share information and uncover new insights and learning opportunities as they look towards the future of interactive entertainment.   

12.15.11
Bethesda Softworks Ships 10 Million Copies of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

ZeniMax Media has shipped 10 million units of Bethesda Softworks’ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is expected to generate over $650 million at retail by the time all copies have been sold. The PC version of Skyrim in North America outsold all other PC games by a factor of over three to one in November. Large retail reorders across all platforms and record-breaking digital sales reflect the ongoing global demand by consumers excited to explore this extraordinary fantasy epic.

08.22.11
Gamescom 2012 Returns to Cologne August 15-19

Cologne -- Gamescom keeps getting bigger. Over 275,000 people from around the world trekked to the small German city of Cologne to check out the latest video games up close and personal. Attendance for this year’s Gamescom 2011, which ran August 17-21, was up 21,000 from last year’s convention. There was also a larger media presence, including from the U.S., as more game publishers debuted new titles at the show than ever before.

08.19.11
Gamescom 2011: Developers Celebrate GDC Europe at Game Convention

Cologne -- The 2011 Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe) kicked off Gamescom 2011 with a successful showing and a final attendee count of more than 2,100 game professionals representing 57 countries. Professionals from all areas of the game industry convened throughout the three day conference and engaged on trends and new opportunities among peers. Many speakers stayed in Cologne, Germany to showcase their titles to the media and public at Gamescom, which has also seen record growth.

07.17.11
Comic-Con 2011: Sony Unleashes Big PlayStation 3 Games at Exclusive Panels

Sony Computer Entertainment America will have more than just a booth with playable versions of its big PlayStation 3 games from E3 on the show floor of Comic-Con 2011. Sony will also have developers from its key games in attendance throughout the event for panel discussions. The three leads from the voice acting cast of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will make the trek to the pop culture Mecca to discuss the new 3D game. For a full rundown of activities, see below.

 

07.08.11
Nintendo’s Wii U Console Includes Stereoscopic 3D Support

When Nintendo launches its first high definition video game console, Wii U, next year, game developers will be able to make stereoscopic 3D games for all three major consoles for the first time. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata confirmed that from a technology standpoint, gamers who connect Wii U to a 3D TV will be able to experience 3D gaming. However, Iwata said 3D gaming is not an area that Nintendo is focusing on in the console space.

06.30.11
Halo Creators Bungie Enter the Social and Mobile Games Space

Bungie is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Halo with a new venture. The independent game studio has launched the first phase of a new venture, Bungie Aerospace, created to help independent developers create brilliant mobile and social games. Bungie Aerospace will give studios the creative freedom and the resources they need, like access to the Bungie.net platform and an audience with the incredible Bungie community, to launch their entertainment experiences into orbit. 

03.28.11
Next Generation of Apple iPad 2 and iPhone Developers to Converge in San Francisco June 6-10
With iPad 2 in record demand, Apple will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 6 through June 10 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. At this year’s five-day conference Apple will unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS, including exciting demonstrations of the new kinds of apps that developers can build using Apple’s advanced frameworks and more than 100 technical sessions presented by Apple engineers.
03.07.11
GDC 2011: A Record 19,000 Attendees Flock to San Francisco for 25th Annual Convention
SAN FRANCISCO, California -- UBM TechWeb Game Network's 2011 Game Developers Conference (GDC 2011), the world’s largest and longest running event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, hosted a record 19,000 game industry professionals attending San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center for the 25th edition of the conference. Electronic Arts used the show to debut Battlefield 3 from DICE.
03.06.11
GDC 2011: Red Dead Redemption and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Top Game Audio Network Guild Awards
SAN FRANCISCO, California - The Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.), the non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of game audio, awarded the winners of the 9th Annual G.A.N.G. Awards held at the 25th Annual Game Developers Conference  (GDC 2011). Red Dead Redemption, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and Halo: Reach took home prizes. Bungie talks about its final Halo in this exclusive video interview.
03.03.11
GDC 2011: PrimeSense Announces OpenNI Developer Challenge Winners
SAN FRANCISCO, California -- PrimeSense, a leader in sensing and recognition technologies, announced the winners of its OpenNI Developer Challenge at the Game Developer Conference  (GDC 2011) taking place at the Moscone Center. The company, which provided the technology for Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360, is also demonstrating its affordable, accurate, 3D capturing sensor solution, optimized for mass-market consumer applications at the show.
03.02.11
GDC 2011: Nintendo President Iwata Discusses the Past 25 Years of Game Development
SAN FRANCISCO, California  – With the Nintendo 3DS already a huge success in Japan and the anticipation building for the March 27 U.S. launch, the head of the company was at Moscone Center to kick off the 25th GDC 2011. Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, provided the opening keynote for the 2011 Game Developers Conference.  Nintendo’s Iwata presented a major keynote around this milestone entitled “Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future.”
03.02.11
GDC 2011: Sony Ericsson Partners with Major League Gaming for Xperia Play Phone
SAN FRANCISCO, California -- Sony Ericsson and Major League Gaming (MLG) used GDC 2011 to announce a partnership making Xperia PLAY the official mobile handset of Major League Gaming. Sony Ericsson held a media event at The Clift hotel in San Francisco just down the street from the Moscone Center, where game developers from around the world are gathered for the week. Verizon Wireless will launch the PlayStation Phone this spring.
03.01.11
GDC 2011: 3DVIA Turns the Virtual World into a Stereoscopic 3D Experience
SAN FRANCISCO, California --Dessault Systèmes used GDC 2011 to demonstrate that users of 3DVIA Scenes, a free online 3D publishing application, can share their creations in fully immersive stereoscopic 3D. With this update, over 230,000 3DVIA.com content creators can interact inside their applications online or through PC-connected TVs using anaglyph (red/blue), side-by-side, line-by-line or checkerboard-capable 3D glasses. 
03.01.11
GDC 2011: FIFA 10 Introduces Mobile Multiplayer on Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
SAN FRANCISCO, California – At GDC 2011, Sony Ericsson and Electronic Arts were on hand for the official U.S. unveiling of the new Xperia Play Android phone. The PlayStation Phone features full gaming functionality, including multiplayer options for titles like EA Sports FIFA 10. Verizon Wireless will launch Xperia Play this spring in the U.S., but the phone was playable at the Moscone Center and at a special media unveiling at The Clift hotel in San Francisco.
03.01.11
GDC 2011: First Look at Star Battalion on Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
SAN FRANCISCO, California – Sony Ericsson used GDC 2011 to show American game developers the new Xperia Play Android phone. The PlayStation Phone will support PlayStation games, as well as new V CAST Apps. Verizon Wireless was also on hand at The Clift Hotel for the official launch and at the Game Developers Conference booth at Moscone Center. New games like Star Battalion take full advantage of the new Xperia Play graphics and functionality.
03.01.11
GDC 2011: New Congressional E-Tech Caucus Championing Positive Effects of Video Games
SAN FRANCISCO, California – While the video game industry gathers in San Francisco for GDC 2011, there are positive steps taking place in Washington, D.C. that could benefit game makers. Representatives Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., recently announced the launch of the new Congressional Caucus for Competitiveness in Entertainment Technology (E-Tech Caucus) at a press conference on Capitol Hill. The 39-member caucus will work toward sustaining a robust computer and video game industry by educating Members of Congress and the American people on the industry’s economic, educational and social benefits. Serious games are helping the medical community as demonstrated in the videos below from the Games for Health conference.