Game Developers Conference 2008 is over and it’s time to return to the snowy North. Here are my picks for the best and worst of everything i experienced there. Best Party i’m not a party person, but i can be astoundingly frugal when the mood takes me. That’s why i went to the Game Developers [...] Keep Reading

Game Developers Conference 2008 is over and it’s time to return to the snowy North. Here are my picks for the best and worst of everything i experienced there. Best New Game Announcement i was pretty impressed with APB, the new multiplayer game announced at a keynote by Realtime Worlds. Realtime Worlds also developed Crackdown, [...] Keep Reading

i just came out of the second GDC 08 keynote by Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is an acclaimed inventor instrumental in creating scanner technology, text-to-speech and optical character recognition. Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, c. 2005 Last year, i made the mistake of suggesting i was going to skip a keynote speech. The guy i was [...] Keep Reading

The over-arching theme this year at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is the democratization of game development. i can’t escape it. At least two sessions a day feature companies opening up their software and platforms to the unwashed masses so that they can create their own games. Here are the examples i’ve [...] Keep Reading

i’ve been to a few great sessions at GDC 08 so far, and i’m sure i’ll write about them at some point. Before we get to that, i want to get this ugly little rant off my chest. Easily the weakest session so far has been “Now That We’re All Here: Next Steps in Online [...] Keep Reading