Game Developers Conference 2009

[Herr Matzat]

http://www.gdconf.com/

Yes Yes, this is happening this week. From what i know they did not have the big anouncments lately... but there are Keynotes by Hideo Kojima (Main MGS Guy, thursday), Satoru Iwata (The President of Nintendo, wensday) and Tamco will anounce the best game ever in a genre they did not Name (i am gussing Porn) wich is rumored to be PS3 exclusive (booo) since they are presenting it in a Sony Store or something along that lines.

Other People talking are Peter Molyneux, EA, Halo Team, Ubisoft ect.

Lot´s of new Info about Games we already know about might also roll in. Just put the Info in here...

[King Ellis]

Not sure whether it's at GDC but Max Payne 3 just got announced for PC, 360 and PS3 by Rockstar. Coming this winter.

[Herr Matzat]

Gamespot Coverage

http://gdc.gamespot.com/

They have some Interviews and a bunch of Previews...

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for PS3 (now with 4 more Boobs and (online/offline) CoOp Mode, roughly 30 percent more content in the single-player additions on top of the all-new co-op content.)

http://gdc.gamespot.com/story/6206597/

Edited March 24, 2009 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[abundant]

Interesting to see Variety expecting no Gears of War-2 level announcements at GDC. They are wrong. Stay tuned. -- Geoff Keighley

This comes from Geoff twitter page. OXM's twitter page states that Microsoft is going to show "some really cool stuff" today. It's rumored to be just XNA stuff, but who knows.

Edited March 24, 2009 by abundant

[Reddaye]

Bioware (Edmonton) will be showing off their upcoming fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins (360, PS3, PC). Haven't heard anything about info on Mass Effect 2, but I doubt we'll hear anything until after Dragon Age comes out this fall.

[abundant]

Bioware (Edmonton) will be showing off their upcoming fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins (360, PS3, PC). Haven't heard anything about info on Mass Effect 2, but I doubt we'll hear anything until after Dragon Age comes out this fall.

- Make sure to watch Spike next Friday night, we'll be telling you a lot more about ME2

- Working with our team on next week's GTTV. Going to be an epic show with around 6 world exclusives...and a few big surprises!

From Geoff's twitter page. It probably won't be anything big though. I expect to see a proper unveiling of ME at this years E3.

And the "cool stuff" from MS was, as expected, XNA tools.

[Herr Matzat]

The Game Heroes (ex screwatack) have a daylie MP3 Report.

Day 1

http://www.thegameheroes.com/Archives/Even...LREPORTDAY1.mp3

This little thing is suposed to revolutionise gameing. It´s cheap, it´s smal and it alowes you to play every game... from what i understand you are conected to a server on wich the game is played... so your computer basicly showes a Video of you playing (or something like that, you don´t need pwning gfx in you homebox)... sounds intersting, but not being able to play offline is not a 100% yay for me.

I am living in a flat with 4 other people right now... that would need one hell of a bandwith for everyone to be able to play, surfe, watch movies... >_>

Edited March 24, 2009 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[King Ellis]

The OnLive system looks interesting. Would be interesting to try it out.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

I'm sure I was meant to pay attention to GDC for something...Kingdom Hearts stuff? Maybe. I can't remember.

That OnLive thing looks interesting. Cost?

[oldskool]

The review I read said "less than a Wii".

[Herr Matzat]

The review I read said "less than a Wii".

While i am gussing that this is not going to work without a subscription (besides the game price they have a ton of hardware and bandwith to pay for) i also think you only need the box for TV play, Win/Mac would by via Software.

Edited March 24, 2009 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[Farmer Reil]

So you'll need a mortgage by the time it comes out then, as the Wii will be about £5mil, "due to the strength of the Yen".

The OnLive thing looks vaguely interesting, but my techie mates aren't pushing too much hope towards it, since as Matzat pointed out, none of us can work out how the hell it's going to work in the real world.

[Farmer Reil]

So you'll need a mortgage by the time it comes out then, as the Wii will be about £5mil, "due to the strength of the Yen".

The OnLive thing looks vaguely interesting, but my techie mates aren't pushing too much hope towards it, since as Matzat pointed out, none of us can work out how the hell it's going to work in the real world.

[Herr Matzat]

Gamespot will Stream live wen the OnLive Pressconference takes place ins about 3 Houres.

http://www.gamespot.com/shows/on-the-spot/

I guss this will also stream from archives later, but i am not shure about that.

[King Ellis]

I almost hope it does come out just to see people try to use it whilst their ISP's cut them off for using too much bandwidth.

[Herr Matzat]

I almost hope it does come out just to see people try to use it whilst their ISP's cut them off for using too much bandwidth.

Maybe they will be the ISP combined with the subscription price or offer special packeges like it´s with the iPhone and Local Cellphone services right now.

But keep in mind that there already is stuff like IP-TV in wich you can watch 1080p HD TV. (at least in germany, offered by the Telekom on VDSL25 and VDSL50) It´s just that current bandwith would not be enough if you have that running on TV and two children playing games at their Computers/TV Sets. (they claim to be able stream up to 720P HD Ready qualety on their games... issend 720p HD on the TV alone like 200mbit?)

I guss for eSports broadcasting this would own. I don´t realy care, but everyone that dos could just turn the videostream on "brodcast enabled games" on and see the action. (why would the onlive server care about you playing CS or watching CS? Outgoing bandwith is the same)

Edited March 24, 2009 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[Herr Matzat]

Nintendo Presentation is going on right now.

Everybody in the audience gets a free DSi launch Title "Rhythm Heaven"

New Zelda Game for the DS

10:09 PDTNew Zelda DS game out of nowhere--The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Clip shows link running a locomotive with some kind of steam cannon on the front. It will be available later this year. Massive applause.

Full Press Converence Blog at the bottom of

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6206693.html

I think besides Zelda most of it was just celebrating themselfs (rightfully so, withtthe sales they go going) and talking about what the DSi can do, but i only flew over it very quickly.

[King Ellis]

Dear Nintendo,

No constant back tracking to the same fucking dungeon over and over again please.

[abundant]

Big surprise is multi-platform. And it goes down in about 6 or 7 hours.

It's looking like the big surprise is going to be COD Modern Warfare 2. Infinity Ward is at GDC, they launched their website today, and an IW developer posted "Tomorrow night is when it gets real" last night on the COD twitter page.

[Herr Matzat]

A lot of other stuff is around.

The New Punch Out game, Postal 3, Goblins 4 ect.

http://www.gametrailers.com/gdc09.php

Gamespot also has the Zelda Trailer... DS is sill not my thing... it all looks so empty... i´ll stick with my SNES Game for now :-D

New Gaming Console for Brazil.

It´s cheap, qualety of the pictre is not to good, all gams are downloaded from the internet. 99$ Only soled in minor markets (Brazil Mexico and so on)

Controller Interface: USB (3 USB ports 2.0 Standard A)

- Power Consumption: 15 W max.

- Main CPU: ARM 11 @ 400 MHz

- Graphics CPU: ARM 9 @ 274 MHz

- 1 GByte NAND Flash

- 160 MB RAM, 128 MBytes DDR SDRAM + 32Mbyte stacked DDR SDRAM

- 3D Graphics rendering speed: 1.6 million polygons / second

- Audio: 8 channel MP3, ADPCM, MIDI

- Resolution: 640x480 (480p)

- SD Card Slot / Interface

- Dimensions: 157 x 215.4 x 44 mm

- Weight: 1.3kg

Promo Video (porogues)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgoDnLTRvTQ...player_embedded

http://www.zeeboinc.com/

There also is another OnLive like gaming Service being anounced, they guy that dos it said it was planed to be anounced at E3 but with OnLive going Public he also but his concept out.

Edited March 26, 2009 by Michael Matzat on a Plane