"The current issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu includes an extensive interview with Super Smash Bros. Brawl director Masahiro Sakurai, in which he discusses his pleasure at the eclectic fighter's success, as well as his hopes for the direction of his own firm, Sora Ltd.<!--"

Amongst a number of new gameplay details relating to the upcoming Traveller's Tales-developed LEGO Batman: The Videogame, it seems as if the Nintendo Wii might yet again fall flat on the online front in comparison to its counterparts on PS3 and Xbox 360. Nintendo's latest console was not included when the inclusion online co-operative missions for the title were mentioned.

Charlie and Max talk about what went on at GDC 2008. They were very busy over the last couple of weeks with both the GDC08 and Natural Selection 2 development. This podcast is basically a look into their busy shedule this month (last month). At the end of the podcast, they hint at breaktrough content for NS2. All of which will be shown or reveiled in the next pod/video cast hopefully

"...you play as a “Runner” in a dystopian utopian world where a gleaming perfect city has been created at the expense of all civil liberties and free thought. The resistance movement can only communicate through hand-written and delivered messages, as all electronic communication is monitored. The game is all about speed and momentum, and standing still is a death sentence..."

We are talking "real fun" here. IGN had the chance to talk with a female game developer... A female game developer that has developed a few games with sexual content on them like "Playboy: The Mansion". Her name is Brenda Brathwaite.
Even though Brenda has even written a book about "Sex In Videogames", she believes that movies and videogames should not have sex just for the sake of it, and that doing it just for the sake of bragging rights is irresponsible.

A bunch of Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core videos have been released at the Game Developers Conference 2008, showing various battles in familiar FFVII locations.
We also get a good look at the English voice-acting of protagonist Zack Fair and his mentor, Angeal Hewley.

Crisis Core is being released in the US in one month.
PAL gamers can expect to see it in Spring 2008.

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"This year’s Game Developer’s conference was a fairly quiet affair where Nintendo was concerned, but if there was one announcement that was going to ruffle the feathers of players, it was the confirmation that the firm would - after years of offering it for nothing - be charging players for the privilege of playing certain Wii titles online thanks to Wii Pay and Play.

Although many see this as Nintendo jumping late onto a bandwagon that they surely couldn’t afford to miss, could making the..."

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First we get treated to a Far Cry 2 tech demo and now CryEngine2 demonstrations. If your head is not already in pieces it will be! Some very nice things coming out from GDC this year. 2008/2009 is shaping up to be pretty impressive years.

The videos are unfortunately hand cam videos and nothing highres (yet). Gametrailers "HD" versions are also available for viewing.

videos after the jump

In what I can only describe as mind blowing. The next installment of the Far Cry series was demonstrated in a tech demo at GDC 08' unfortunately this was taken with a cam so the quality isn't superior, even through they provide both SD and HD.

I wont spoil it but at the end of part 2 your head will just explode. Enjoy!





HD: tech demo pt 1
HD: tech demo pt 2

"Quietly unveiled at yesterday's PSN session was PhyreEngine, a new "free to use graphics engine" from Sony Computer Entertainment. According to the presentation, the package includes full documentation, "70+ samples" and "full source code and artwork" of sample game templates. Working on both OpenGL and Direct3D, this engine will allow developers to more easily develop for the PS3 by using PC environments they're more familiar with. A "simple recompile" is supposedly all that's needed to make..."

"We've seen videos of Sony's Tank War Demo for the PS Eye before, and they looked really intriguing. But after having a hands-on today, I'm really excited over the simple tech demo.

As long as you position the various elements of the tank in proper relative positions (tank body middle, treads off to the side and a turret up top), the software smoothly integrates the design to a badass killing machine.

After shooting the video, I drew a tank of my own and was incredibly impressed by the..."

Blog, Kotatku owner, Brian Crecente reports on Postal 3 during GDC 08'
after talking with Running With Scissors founder Vince Desi, that our favorite video game movie director, Uwe Boll, will be in the game. However, you will be able to kill poor ol' Uwe.

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"Uwe Boll will be in the game," he said, "you can kill him."

Fans of Uwe's Postal movie will truly be able to show their appreciation to the man in the game.

Recruiting workers in the game industry isn't that hard to do, as for many it's a dream job, however if by chance you've created a company and need some help that you can't seem to find, well then turn to Insomniac since as well as making games, they seem to know how to recruit... watch and see how working at Insomniac is like, and let me tell you, I sure would love to work there.

"Epic gave a short Unreal Engine 3 presentation during Microsoft’s GDC keynote earlier today, showing off some of the advancements they’ve made to their engine since the original Gears of War was released in late ‘06."

Logitech has just announced it's Driving Force GT Racing Wheel. This wheel was built with Gran Turismo 5: Prologue in mind (Just like their Driving Force Pro was built with GT4 in mind).

It has all the features that the Driving Force Pro had, and more. It also works with the Playstation 2.

Expect this wheel to retail for $150 when it comes out in May.

"Chris Eden from Sony Computer Entertainment made mention of PLAYSTATION Store on PSP in his Game Developers Conference session. Currently, players must use a PC in order to download content and transfer it to the PSP. Going forward, PSP fans will be able to download games directly to their systems from within the PSP itself. "Access native PLAYSTATION Store on PSP via wireless hotspot," the slide notes. "Purchase and download content direct to PSP (no USB cable)." Launch is currently "TBA." M..."

"
Echochrome requires a good hard look to wrap your head around the concept the first time you witness it: Created entirely out of black lines against an ultra-minimalist, stark white background, a figure reminiscent of a mannequin artist's model navigates interconnecting, M.C. Escher-like pathways as you rotate the camera. That last part is the key, too: The pathways don't interconnect unless viewed from the right angle. If you've ever seen one of those "how many prongs does this fork have?..."

"Microsoft’s GDC’08 keynote has just been wrapped up, during which a number of Xbox 360-related statistics were revealed again, like it’s become customary during these kinds of events."

"I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time now, as I’m sure many others have.

Xbox Live Community Games is as exactly as it sounds, games created by the community for release on Xbox Live. Using a creator identity (much like gamertags), anybody can submit in their created games. After creating the game and writing a description for it, the game is submitted for Peer Review, to make sure no copyrights have been violated and to make sure it is appropriate for release. After a ..."

During GDC 08' IGA Worldwide and id Software (Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein) partner up to bring us QUAKE LIVE. Now, what exactly is Quake Live? Well, it's not a new installment in the Quake series. It's the Quake you know and love, what console? PC? well, yes but you play it in your browser.

IGA is an in-game advertising firm, so, you can most likely expect to see advertisements in Quake Live while you frag it up through your browser. It's to be noted that there is already a browser based ver...

"From the article: "The PC Gaming Alliance revealed itself in a press conference today at the GDC in San Francisco. The alliance will be headed up by Mon Moth...no, Intel's Randy Stude, and is currently composed of industry giants such as Microsoft, ATI, NVIDIA, Blizzard, Intel, AMD... the list goes on.

Stude assured the crowds that the Alliance was formed to foster the growth of the underperforming PC gaming market...""

Wow, what a rumor.

Take this as RUMOR though. Because it's a rumor, there's quite a chance it's not gonna happen.

The rumor says though, that a new Playstation dev kit update has released which is almost completely about integrating home and an XMB. The rumor goes on to state that the in-game XMB is ready to launch, and Playstation Home is almost completely done. The source also mentions that the PS3 is also almost ready to launch an "Accomplishment" system, similar to the achievement ...

Sony just loves to mess with people these days.

They had shirts at GDC '08 that said "In-shirt XMB" on them. Hmm, I wonder what that could hint at... OH WAIT? An In-game XMB maybe?