Highlights from the Game Developers Conference 2008
by Ross Miller 
{ Feb 26th 2008 at 7:59AM }
Join us in the next few pages for a primer on all things GDC 2008. Comments can be found on the last page (Update: comments have been turned on for every page, so go crazy!) as well as a very special image for some of our readers who feel a strong infinity with writer Ludwig Kietzmann. Read on as we recap last week.
Gallery: GDC08: The Experience
While Sony and Nintendo shared keynote spotlight in 2007, Microsoft was the only console maker to deliver the big speech this year. So what did we learn from the Microsoft GDC keynote (photos)? For starters, the Xbox Live community arcade, offering titles from the XNA community to for play on the Xbox 360 or Zune. More information came from the Blogger's Breakfast later in the week as well as the XNA booth itself, which had a mysterious shroud up until the keynote and was later uncovered to reveal playable versions of Dishwasher Samurai and JellyCar.
Team Ninja's self-proclaimed badass Tomonobu Itagaki took the stage to announce a June 3 release for Ninja Gaiden 2 as well as show off some bloody disgusting (but in a good way) gameplay (photos, video). An Xbox Live tab appeared claiming a NG2 demo was "coming soon," but that turned to be just video of someone playing the demo. Lame.
Lionhead founder and nudist extraordinaire Peter Molyneux presented the latest Fable 2 build (photos), showing himself to be a woman (in-game) whose husband is untimely vanquished as a result of the new co-op mode. Also, monsters will no longer line their bellies with currency and drop gold upon defeat; instead, you'll have to earn your living through trade skills (i.e. jobs) or by gambling in a Fable 2 Xbox Live minigame.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kagai @ Feb 26th 2008 11:54AM
Thanks for all the great coverage. You guys are great!
generic @ Feb 26th 2008 12:19PM
Agreed! It's nice to see solid coverage of an event where the majority of the talk surrounds making games, as opposed to selling them.
Ryan Henson Creighton @ Feb 26th 2008 3:16PM
Really? You thought Gears of War 2 was a "big reveal"? You found it somehow exciting or surprising that they're making a sequel to one of the most successful video games of 2006? Yeah? Really? This is somehow news?
tankbuster8000 @ Feb 26th 2008 5:34PM
Its not gear of war 2 im excited about but the unreal 3 engine upgrades, who noes what devolpers could pump out with them!
JofCore @ Feb 26th 2008 6:38PM
Ah-yah! Can't wait for Gears 2 :) November is great, right around my b-day :D Hope it won't get delayed though... but would rather have them delay it than rush it out with bugs, soooo...
Free Playstation 3 (PS3)!!!
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Lawrence Henry @ Mar 11th 2008 10:53PM
I am sorry for making so many comments. I kept thinking that they weren't going through