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Dozen game demos land on Xbox consoles for ID@Xbox GDC Online Demo Event

Paul Hill — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:20:01 +0000

Xbox owners can play a host of demo games as part of the ID@Xbox GDC Online Demo Event. The titles will be playable until March 27 so hurry if you want to join in. Read on for more details. Read more...

Here are all the major announcements from Microsoft at GDC 2022

Usama Jawad — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:49:48 +0000

Microsoft had a ton of stuff to announce at the Game Developers Conference 2022 including worldwide availability of the ID@Azure program, updates to PlayFab services, and improvements in the cloud. Read more...

Arm is now RTX ready, Nvidia demos Real-Time Ray Tracing, DLSS running on Arm system

Sayan Sen — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:26:01 +0000

At GDC 2021 today, Nvidia showed off a couple of ray tracing and DLSS demos that it ran on an ARM CPU paired with an RTX 3060. The first was a gaming demo while the second was a sample scene render. Read more...

GDC Summer will be an all-digital event due to the coronavirus

Usman Khan Lodhi — Fri, 01 May 2020 02:42:01 +0000

Organizers earlier planned to hold a three-day convention in San Francisco on August 4. However, GDC Summer has now been switched to an all-digital event, making it easier for people to attend. Read more...

GDC plans a replacement summer event in August

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 06:50:01 +0000

The organizers behind the Game Developers Conference have announced new dates for the postponed event. A new three-day-long GDC Summer event is now planned to kick off in early August. Read more...

Google shares its schedule for the digital Google for Games Developer Summit

Abhay V — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:30:01 +0000

Google has announced the schedule for its digital Google for Games Developer Summit in place of the GDC event. The event will start on March 23 at 9 AM PT. There are 10 hours of developer sessions. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Xbox's new Home, a peek at Surface Duo, and new builds for everyone

Florin Bodnarescu — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 13:16:01 +0000

A number of things happened this week, among which the general availability of the new Xbox One Home experience, the leak of Surface Duo's Peek feature, and much more. Be sure to catch up below. Read more...

Google will conduct a"digital experience" event for Stadia in place of its GDC event

Abhay V — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:22:01 +0000

Google has announced that it will conduct a "digital experience" event for Stadia, with GDC being postponed. The company originally announced two days of sessions at GDC, a schedule which is now gone. Read more...

Game Developers Conference 2020 officially postponed due to coronavirus fears

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 07:04:02 +0000

The latest convention to cancel its original plans is the 2020 Game Developers Conference. The organizers today announced that the event has been postponed to sometime later in the summer. Read more...

Valve unveils the Steam library overhaul and a new Events page

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:20:02 +0000

The long time coming Steam library overhaul was unveiled by Valve today during its GDC presentation. The company also showed off a new feature it's working on to inform players of upcoming events. Read more...

New reports unveils more details about Google's game streaming platform

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:38:01 +0000

A new report shed some more light on what we can expect from Google's gaming announcement tomorrow, including the launch of its game streaming platform and a new controller designed for it. Read more...

Google announces a GDC keynote, possibly for its game streaming service

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:02:01 +0000

Google has begun sending out press invites for a keynote at the Game Developers Conference in March. Details about the keynote weren't given, but it's possible that it will focus on Project Stream. Read more...

Microsoft working on Xbox Live SDK to make cross-platform play easier

Usama Jawad — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 08:14:01 +0000

Microsoft is working on an Xbox Live SDK that will make cross-platform play easier across Xbox, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows PCs. Sony's PlayStation is notably absent from this list. Read more...

Cities: Skylines for Xbox One to be showcased at the GDC 2017

Gurkaran Singh — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:54:01 +0000

Cities: Skylines is celebrating its two-year anniversary on PC in March. It has since had three expansions and it looks like an Xbox version if finally on the way and will be shown at GDC 2017. Read more...

Intel reveals Skull Canyon price and availability of its high-end quad-core NUC

Moshe Jacobs — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 07:40:01 +0000

Intel has finally revealed the appearance, price and availability of its high-end NUC which features a Skylake processor, Thunderbolt 3 port and a high end integrated graphics processing unit. Read more...

Microsoft is giving away invitations to several top gaming events for lucky Insiders

Camden Krupala — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 06:24:01 +0000

If you live in the US or Europe, Microsoft has announced that it will be giving away invitations to several of the gaming conferences it will be attending, such as E3, GDC, GamesCom, and Comic-Con. Read more...

Microsoft goes to GDC, announces a plethora of features, deals and more

Brad Sams — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:51:59 +0000

Microsoft is at GDC and hosted a keynote earlier today, if you missed the event, we have everything you need to know about the conference posted after the jump. Read more...

Gallery: Microsoft's booth at GDC

Brad Sams — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:02:32 +0000

This week, the Game Developers Conference is taking place in San Francisco and if you are curious about what Microsoft's booth look like, we have you covered along with a few bonus pics too. Read more...

Valve's updated Steam Controller said to be unveiled in March

Usama Jawad — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:38:01 +0000

Valve is expected to make an announcement soon; while most of you will hope for 'Half-life 3', unfortunately it is not that. Instead, the company might finally unveil the Steam Controller Read more...

Sony announces 'Move', a motion based controller at GDC

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:29:01 +0000

Sony has launched the motion remote control, called PlayStation Move, for the PS3 at GDC, quoting the price to be “under $100 (US).” The starter kit will come with the PlayStation Eye (camera), the... Read more...

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves gameplay leaked

Joshua Seed — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:00:10 +0000

During the Game Developers Conference (March 23-27), new gameplay was shown for many upcoming game titles. Participants were kindly asked not to film the footage being shown behind "closed doors" but a couple of Italians... Read more...

Nintendo ships 50 million Wii's

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:42:36 +0000

During Nintendo's Keynote today at GDC, President and CEO of the company Satoru Iwata revealed Nintendo's total shipped numbers for the DS and more importantly the Wii. As of the end of December last year... Read more...

Sony keen to establish PSP downloadable game library

Jonathan Steele — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:16:24 +0000

With the iPhone starting to prove itself as a successful portbale gaming platform and Nintendo continuing to strengthen the DSiWare library, Sony is under increasing pressure to introduce full downloadable games to the PSP system.... Read more...

World of Goo creators: DRM is a waste of time

Joshua Seed — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:37:24 +0000

Ron Carmel, co-founder of 2D Boy, speaking at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco said that the best solution to piracy is to not bother with digital-rights management (DRM) altogether. Carmel, who... Read more...

Microsoft unveils blue 360 development kit

Jonathan Steele — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:29:43 +0000

As expected, developer related news seems to be the flavour of the week in San Francisco. Following Sony's announcement yesterday, Microsoft has just shown off some new developer tools, as well as an improved Xbox... Read more...

Updated: Crytek to introduce CryENGINE 3 at GDC

Joshua Seed — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:28:40 +0000

Crytek, the developer behind games such as Far Cry and Crysis Warhead, announced last week that they will be presenting their third generation engine at the upcoming Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. CryENGINE... Read more...

Rolando 2 and 3 rolling onto iPhones this year

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:00:04 +0000

At the Game Developers Conference this morning in San Francisco, Neil Young founder of ngmoco announced that Rolando 2 and 3 will be heading our way this year. Created by Simon Oliver, Rolando became a... Read more...

Epic Games to showcase new Unreal Engine 3 features at GDC

Joshua Seed — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:43:02 +0000

This week, Epic Games announced its plans to unveil the latest Unreal Engine 3 upgrades at the upcoming Game Developers Conference at the end of March. Unreal Engine 3 is the third generation of Epic... Read more...

Wii Fit: Under $100 and launching on May 19

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:02:56 +0000

With nearly 1.3 million units in homes, Nintendo's exercise-themed videogame, Wii Fit, has become one of the fastest-selling Wii titles in Japan. Now, Nintendo of America is gearing up to duplicate the success of its... Read more...

GDC08: Gears of War 2 Announced - November

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:58:55 +0000

In what could only be considered as good news for the franchise's cult following, Microsoft and Epic Games have announced their intention to give Gears of War another go. Despite only scraping by with a... Read more...

GDC08: Ninja Gaiden 2 - June Release

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:53:48 +0000

Tomonobu Itagaki announced at Microsoft's GDC keynote that the bloody ninja action sequel would ship worldwide in June, with a confirmed North American June 3 release date for the Xbox 360 exclusive. After showing off... Read more...

GDC08: Microsoft announces "community arcade"

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:47:14 +0000

At Microsoft's GDC 2008 keynote address, the company announced a "community arcade" allowing user-created games to be distributed to Xbox 360 owners worldwide. "Now, 10 million people on Xbox Live get to play your game,"... Read more...