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The 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC) began on Tuesday March 9th and wrapped up on Saturday March 13th, and over these five days the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco (which played host to the event) saw 18 250 videogame industry professionals stalk the halls and corridors, a new attendance record for the annual event.
Fable III got a new showing at the Game Developers Conference this year, and with it, a new set of screenshots were released by Microsoft and developers Lionhead to reveal one of the sections from the game – what looks to be an abandoned mine haunted by ghostly soldiers. Isn’t that always the way?
Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux, as usual, spilled a few more beans about the project, including the reveal that non other than British comedian and actor John Cleese will play the role of your in-game butler, in addition to the news that, in some form or another, Fable III will include support for the social messaging system, Twitter, as Molyneux says:
Eidos Montreal has dropped a teaser trailer for the studio’s upcoming Deus Ex 3, revealing that we as mere humans are but a steppingstone towards the next stage of evolution, and that in the next entry to the venerable first-person RPG franchise, we’ll once again gain access to all kinds of organic implants and improvements to make ourselves… better… stronger… faster.
A new piece of information coming out of GDC this year is that Deus Ex won’t feature multiplayer of any kind, as the game’s director Jean-Francois Dugas says:
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The 12th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) awards winners were announced last night after the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony, honouring indie game developers with the recognition, and hard cold cash, that they so rightly deserve.
Taking top honours for the night was a game by the name of Monaco, “a 4-player co-op crime caper inspired by classic French heist movies and set in modern day Monte Carlo,” which received the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, and $20 000 for the development team’s efforts.
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Last night the world’s best videogames and game developers were honoured with a shower of awards at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, held during the Game Developers Conference every year, the only official awards ceremony created for developers and voted on by developers.
This year’s big winner was Uncharted 2, which walked away with a total of five nods, while id Software co-founder and Technical Director John Carmack was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Event director of the Game Developers Conference Meggan Scavio said of the awards process this year:
Last week Crystal Dynamics announced that they were hard at work on a new adventure for the popular dame Lara Croft. The new entry is titled Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and will be available later this year as a digital download.
The developer has since released a batch of new screenshots for the game, which promises to be “something completely new and very different to what people might be expecting.”
Crystal Dynamics has announced that a new entry to the continued adventures of Lara Croft will appear later this year in the form of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and will be available as a digital download.
General Manager of Crystal Dynamics Darrell Gallagher said of the announcement:
While there are going to be plenty of highlights for both game developers and the videogame press at large to talk about at this month’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, event director Meggan Scavio has confirmed that there will be no keynotes delivered by the big three console manufacturers, Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony, in an effort to move the conference away from “announcing things” and towards “[focussing] on developers.”
This year at GDC, the biggest headline event will be a keynote delivered by industry legend and game designer Sid Meier, as opposed to any new hardware announcements by Sony or Nintendo, if Scavio can help it.
Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Scavio said:
Videogame industry legend, programming technology guru and id Software (DOOM, Quake) co-founder John Carmack is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Game Developers Choice Awards for his outstanding contributions to the art and science of games, following in the footsteps of prolific industry stars Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima and Richard Garriott.
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognises “the career and achievements of developers who have made an indelible impact on the craft of game development,” and with Carmack’s more than two decade history of making games, working on breakthrough technology and his contributions to popularising the first-person shooter genre with titles such as Wolfenstein, DOOM and Quake, as well as his efforts in continually pushing the bounds of graphics technology, you could say he’s made an “indelible impact” on game development.
Event Director of the Game Developers Conference Meggan Scavio said of Carmack and the award:
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