The Game Audio Network Guild announces its final list of nominees for this year’s 10th Annual G.A.N.G. awards to be awarded During Game Developers Conference in San Francisco March 8, 2012. This year’s standouts for nominations include Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception with 9 nominations. Other games nominated in several categories include Battlefield 3, L.A. Noire, more »

One of the biggest mysteries in the videogame industry (and there are many) is what Bungie’s next project is. Bungie isn’t going to make Halo games anymore, and has signed on with Activision Blizzard for the next decade. Earlier rumors stated Bungie’s next project was a massively multiplayer online game. The latest piece of information, that was supposedly leaked by a released contract worker, said the game was code-named Destiny. At GDC this week, a slide from a Bungie presentation seemed to have confirmed this. Sorry guys, it was a joke.

D3 Publisher had a 3DS game to show off at the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference this year. It’s the launch window, shooter Dream Trigger 3D. A name like that just screams shoot’em up and bullet hell. Hope you’re prepared to dodge and rapidly tap that trigger button…

Fruit Ninja is one of those games that you always see whenever you look in the games section of the App Store. It’s one of those games that’s incredibly simple and cheap, but never seems to get old. Fruit Ninja is the same game every time, but it’s also a different experience each time. People love that simplicity these days, and they speak with their dollars. Fruit Ninja has been downloaded 20 million times on iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7. In terms of purchases, the iOS version has been purchased 6 million times.

We’ve been going on about OnLive for several months now. It’s hard to believe the service isn’t active in Europe yet. OnLive is planning to go live in Europe sometime this year, but it has a pretty big challenge to overcome by then. OnLive has to figure out how people are going to pay for access. Europe and the United States tend to do things differently. At GDC this year, Chris Donahue, the head of developer and publisher relations, told GamesIndustry payments have to go beyond credit and debit cards.

If OnLive’s strategy is to become an alternative game console, it has to have features that are standard on traditional consoles. During the Game Developer’s Conference, OnLive’s vice president of engineering Joe Bentley, announced achievements are coming to OnLive this year. More new features will be added as well.

Yesterday at Nintendo’s Game Developers Conference 2011 press event, we learned that the 3DS Virtual Console would be home to old Game Boy games, but also Game Gear and TurboGrafx-16 games. A day later, Sega has spoken up to let people know that when the 3DS eShop launches in May 2011, there will be five GameGear Classics for people to rediscover and enjoy…

Double Fine didn’t waste any time revealing its fourth game that was conceived during a two week period of brainstorming. At the Game Developers Conference, Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer revealed Trenched. Trenched is an Xbox Live Arcade game that is nothing like Double Fine’s previous three games. It’s likely Trenched will be exclusive to Xbox 360 because it is being published by Microsoft Game Studios.

We’ve all heard of game companies conjuring dumb publicity stunts to promote a new game. Try this one for size. What if a company released 10,000 balloons into the bay of a city well-known for being extremely environmentally conscious? That’s exactly what THQ did during this week’s GDC.

I bet you were hoping that Sony would finally wise up and just use something like an SD card or microSD card for the NGP, but no. It’s already been confirmed that the NVG is the way to go for the NGP. If you happened to be at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, then you got to hear first hand a bit more about Sony’s latest portable’s memory card.

Sony is going to have two varieties of NVG card at launch, with the only difference between the two being storage size…