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 »

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.

Unreal Engine 3 powers some of the most impressive games of this generation. Epic published games such as Bulletstorm and Gears of War that use this engine. During the Game Developers Conference (February 28 – March 4), Epic Games will be showing enhancements to Unreal Engine 3 to developers behind closed doors.

The Game Audio Network Guild (aka GANG) recently announced the final nominees for its 9th annual GANG awards to be showcased and awarded March 3, 2011, at the 2011 Game Developers Conferencein San Francisco.

Standout nominees include Red Dead Redemption, which received 10 nominations, and Dante’s Inferno with 7 nominations. Other notable multiple nominees include God of War III, Bioshock II, Heavy Rain, Halo: Reach and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

PlayStation Move may not be exclusively bound to the PS3 in the future. During GDC 2011 on March 2, Sony will host an one hour session discussing PlayStation Move. The purpose of the session is to explain to developers everything they need to know about developing PlayStation Move titles. It is during this event that Sony may be opening the doors to anyone interested in making PS Move applications on PC.

According to an analyst for research firm Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR), next generation consoles are likely to stress digital download sales and eschew the traditional retail model.

Before I wrote “E3 could probably use a little more GameCock,” I tried to reach former GameCock CEO Mike Wilson for comment. Since he wasn’t with SouthPeak, the company that acquired GameCock in 2008, it took a little extra time to get hold of him.

It turns out he was at E3 2009 this year but not wearing the bright birdly garb or years past. He had a response to my opinion piece, a few comments about E3 2009 and let loose a little news of his own…

On March 25, 2009, the president and CEO of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, took the time out his busy schedule to travel all the way from Japan to grace the attendees of the 2009 Game Developer’s Conference (held in San Francisco, California) with a highly anticipated keynote.

Held in the Moscone South Esplanade Ballroom, interested attendees entered an impressive sized room capable of holding 1000s of people. Three huge screens graced the front stage amidst a blue and indigo light scheme. Contemporary music tracks played in the background to entertain the audience until the main attraction begun.

The momentous keynote was titled “Discovering New Development Opportunities” and included several interesting topics:

The Vision Engine might not be as much a household name as Epic’s Unreal Engine, but come this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), Trinigy is hoping to change that view with its release of the latest version of the Vision Game Engine.

The grand unveiling of Vision 6.4 will be at this year’s GDC 2008 in San Francisco, February 20-22, 2008. This will be the first time that the public will be allowed to see the new engine…

CMP Media, responsible for organizing the Game Developers Conference each year, has been busy adapting to the changing global climate of game development. Just this week, two new events have been announced: GDC China and PC GameOn. Taking its show to the Far East, CMP Media will hold the first annual GDC China in August more »