Valve has said that reports it is to announce its entry into the console hardware market this year are wide of the mark, saying it is "a long way from shipping any sort of hardware."
GDC’s Microtalks session is one of its best events, ten talks of 20 slides, each lasting just 5 minutes and twenty seconds. One of the punchiest of this year’s was Cliff Bleszinski on the quickfire advice he’d give himself if today he were 17 again and wanted to break into the industry. Here’s a cross-section of what he had to suggest. Do you agree?
Gaikai has announced a deal with Warner Bros that will make two of the publisher's MMOGs playable instantly, streamed from the cloud, in web browsers.
The Lord Of The Rings Online is available to North American players now, with Turbine's Dungeons & Dragons Online to follow soon. Players can launch the full, free-to-play version of both titles from the games' official websites.
US retail chain GameStop has reportedly expressed an interest in buying troubled UK retailer Game Group's Iberian operation.
The Independent reports that GameStop, which has apparently distanced itself from speculation linking it with an outright takeover of the troubled company, is keen on Game Group's 291-store portfolio in Spain and Portugal.
Our April issue, which is on sale March 14, features reviews, along with Post Script articles, on all the most important games including Mass Effect 3, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Syndicate and Journey.
Epic Games has shown off the progress it has made running Unreal Engine in Flash, saying that its long-term goal is to run the Samaritan demo in Adobe's technology.
Speaking during a GDC presentation, Epic Games VP Mark Rein showed off Dungeon Defenders running in full screen just as well as it does on PS3, according to Gamesindustry.biz. "This isn't your father's FarmVille," Rein quipped at the close.
Ubisoft has confirmed that the creative director on upcoming tactical shooter Rainbow 6: Patriots has been removed from the project.
The publisher has confirmed to Game Informer that David Sears has been axed and replaced by Jean-Sebastien Decant, adding: "The development team is still hard at work to deliver the next installment of the revered Tom Clancy series, and more details on the game will be revealed at a later date."
Frank Lapikas, gameplay director on Eidos Montreal's Deus Ex: Human Revolution, has said he is "truly sorry" for the game's divisive boss fights.
The boss sections - development of which was outsourced to Grip Entertainment - were criticised for being at odds with the freedom afforded the player elsewhere in the game.
Sony's online service PlayStation Network has around 90 million registered users worldwide, according to a senior executive.
The claim comes from Ted Regulski, manager of SCEA developer relations, who in a talk during GDC yesterday stressed the appeal of Sony's platform compared to its peers.
Develop reports that he opened his talk by claiming Sony was "the only major console publisher to allow self-publishing.
Upcoming XBLA platformer Fez won the Seamus McNally Grand Prize, the top honour at last night's Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards at GDC in San Francisco.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim won game of the year at last nights Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC in San Francisco last night.
While Bethesda's sprawling RPG took home the most coveted award, the big winner of the night was Portal 2, the Valve title winning Best Audio, Best Narrative, and Best Game Design.
Tonight I met a man who’s making a Kinect game about animal husbandry. And watched Phil Fish dance to The Cure (above). And saw grown men and women fall over playing Johann Sebastian Joust. And heard a man sing on stage, to the tune of Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline, "SWEET KEN LEVINE".
Soundcloud user Lazyitis has posted a Super Mario Bros-style chiptune version of The Smiths' classic This Charming Man, making use of sound effects from the game.
The track has a split personality, and we're not sure which is the bigger achievement: retaining Mario's relentlessly breezy spirit in a Smiths cover, or keeping hold of the band's cynical melancholy through a chiptune filter.
Either way, you should listen now by clicking the link above.
Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is worth $1.5 billion (£954.5m), according to US magazine Forbes.
Newell, 49, makes his debut on Forbes' annual list of billionaires, with the magazine consulting industry insiders, analysts and investment bankers to calculate his net worth because Valve, a privately held company, does not publish its finances.
Apple has unveiled the third generation of its iPad tablet, with Infinity Blade publisher Epic Games saying it has "more memory and higher screen resolution than Xbox 360 or PS3."
The tablet, which contrary to expectations is not called iPad 3 or iPad HD but simply iPad, features a retina display that shows 246 pixels per inch, sporting a resolution of 2048x1536 pixels.
At the Game Developers Conference, a day after Fez creator Phil Fish responsed to an audience question with "modern Japanese games just suck," renowned ex-Capcom developer Keiji Inafune delivered his own damning judgement of the modern Japanese videogame industry.
A pretty android lady with an existential crisis was the subject of Quantic Dream’s latest tech showcase, demonstrated to a packed hall at GDC. Like The Casting, Quantic Dream’s 2006 demo reel, it wasn’t indicative of the Heavy Rain developer’s current project; indeed, it’s a year old. The flashy new engine that supports it has moved from version one to three in that time - although the video on show today hardly looks worse for it, illustrating just how much juice there is to be squeezed from PlayStation 3.
Namco Bandai's PS3 action game One Piece: Pirate Warriors is the new Japanese all-formats number one.
With enormous launch sales of 655,774 units, Namco Bandai's game storms straight in at the top of the chart ahead of another new entry, Sega's Mario & Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games, which takes second spot with 43,155 sales, according to Media Create data posted on NeoGaf.
The global PC gaming market grew by 15 per cent last year to a record $18.6 billion, according to the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA).
The figure comes from the PCGA's annual Horizons report, released to coincide with the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Korean MMOG developer NCSoft has licensed Unreal Engine 3 for use in upcoming projects.
The deal, which Epic Games says is the largest it has ever closed in Asia, means NCSoft will use Unreal Engine 3 in the upcoming Blade&Soul and future games. The two companies have done business before, with NCSoft using Unreal Engine 2 in development of Lineage II.
If Sony is to maintain Vita’s launch momentum, you sense that games like Mutant Blobs Attack are likely to be as important in their own way as the £45 retail titles. Initially, DrinkBox’s 2D platformer may appear a good fit for the App Store, but with its blend of traditional button controls, touchscreen and tilt mechanics, it quickly becomes evident that Vita is its natural home.
Online retailer Play.com has inadvertently revealed four unannounced PS Vita games, the most eye-catching of which is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nights.
PlayStation Suite, the platform allowing developers to create games to be played on PlayStation Certified Android devices, will enter open beta in April, Sony has confirmed.
Our friends at Gamesmaster have launched Golden Joystick TV, a new video portal hosting gameplay footage, reviews, trailers, guides, interviews and more.
The videos are produced in collaboration with the various videogame publications here under Future Publishing's banner, including CVG, Official Nintendo Magazine and PC Gamer.
Click the source link below to visit the site and be bombarded by Mass Effect 3 videos.
UPDATE: Molyneux has confirmed on Twitter that he is joining Guildford-based 22 Cans, set up last year by former Lionhead CTO Tim Rance.
Peter Molyneux has confirmed he is leaving Lionhead Studios and Microsoft, and is moving on to an "a new independent venture."