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Gone are the boats and ponies of yesteryear - Link has officially upgraded to riding on trains (like MIA, no?) for his latest DS adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Announced today (March 25, 2009) at the Game Developer’s Conference by Nintendo bigwig Satoru Iwata (at the tail end… Continue Reading »

Imagine a future where you don’t need to run out and buy the latest console, or send yourself into debt building the best PC for your gaming needs. Even better, imagine the sexiest of next-gen titles running at full speed right on your crappy old computer (or TV), with no… Continue Reading »

Need more proof that the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) is becoming the new E3? Look no further than the attendance numbers for the once-intimate conference: GameDaily is reporting that over 18,000 people attended the five-day event. This breaks the event’s previous attendance record, setting the bar even higher for next… Continue Reading »

According to GameDaily, the Game Developer’s conference (GDC) and D.I.C.E. summit - two of the most prominent industry conventions - may be going invite-only for next year. If this goes through, both events will only be open to press members that are specifically invited to partake. The intention is to… Continue Reading »

A lot of lesser known, smaller games got their moments in the sun at the Game Developers Conference, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t any love for more established, smaller sized games. Xbox Live’s Arcade has been one of the providers of tiny games that get you and all your… Continue Reading »

In any story-driven medium, be it novels, narrative videogames, films, etc. you can’t have a very successful project without solid writing. While visual mediums like film and videogames (and from here, we’re speaking of games with central storylines, not Tetris) don’t necessarily rely on the spoken word as heavily, the… Continue Reading »

During the Game Developers Conference, Microsoft announced a new video game sharing feature for Xbox Live that will allow gamers to play and rate community developed games. They can also share theses games with any of their Xbox Live friends. Microsoft believes that the new “open distribution” service will be… Continue Reading »

Nokia’s new N-Gage service has been marred by several delays and, in December 2007, the company formally pushed the launch of the service to the first half of 2008. Now with a pre-launch version, N-Gage First Access, being made available to N81 users through the official N-Gage website, the full… Continue Reading »

Regardless of how you feel about most award ceremonies, you have to respect the Game Developers Choice Awards, in which actual working professionals (read: people who really know their stuff) pick the best and brightest games, ideas, and people of the past year. At this year’s eighth iteration of the… Continue Reading »

Microsoft has had a forgettable start to the year with the Xbox 360 finishing third for the first time on US sales charts in January 2008. The news of Blu-ray triumphing in the HD format war has only aggravated its woes, although it is putting up a brave pretense. But… Continue Reading »