Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Wil Wheaton's State of the Geek Union Address delivered during PAX keynote]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/27/wil-wheatons-state-of-the-geek-union-address-delivered-during-p/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/27/wil-wheatons-state-of-the-geek-union-address-delivered-during-p/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/27/wil-wheatons-state-of-the-geek-union-address-delivered-during-p/#comments We've been floating on a cloud of inspiration since yesterday afternoon, when nerd culture luminary Wil Wheaton delivered the keynote address for PAX East 2010. For one hour, the audience watched as Wil touched on a myriad of game culture touchstones: His newfound love of Dragon Age (including a ton of end-game spoilers), his first encounter with D&D, how he's watched games evolve over the years, and his ever-evolving love of the Penny Arcade Expo. We couldn't poll the audience, but we're pretty sure everyone left the theater with inexplicable warm feelings.

You can listen to the whole (fairly NSFW) keynote in the audio player below.

JoystiqWil Wheaton's State of the Geek Union Address delivered during PAX keynote originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>keynotepaxpax-eastpax-east-2010speechwil-wheatonSat, 27 Mar 2010 17:30:00 EST<![CDATA[GDC 2010 schedule and speakers partially revealed]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/12/gdc-2010-schedule-and-speakers-partially-revealed/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/12/gdc-2010-schedule-and-speakers-partially-revealed/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/12/gdc-2010-schedule-and-speakers-partially-revealed/#comments Though it lacks the glitz, glamor and booth babes of consumer-based expos, the Game Developer's Conference has plenty to capture the attention of the cerebral game enthusiast. The event's official site recently posted a smattering of the lectures, roundtables, and panels which will take place from March 9 - 13, showcasing the efforts of the creators of Brütal Legend, Uncharted 2 and Braid, to name a few.

These events are broken into tracks representing the various types of work that go into making a game. For instance, Naughty Dog's Richard Lemarchand will be leading a post-mortem of Uncharted 2 as part of the Production Track. Double Fine's Peter Demoreuille and Drew Skillman will be talking about crafting the visuals of Brutal Legend for the Art Track. And Jonathan Blow is leading a discussion on implementing time travel in games as part of the sparsely populated Quantum Physics Phenomena Track.

[Via Gamasutra]

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Do you frequently find yourself filling the role of an inspirational leader amongst your group of friends? Do you utter phrases such as "once more into the breach" and "screw your courage to the sticking-place?" You sound like a likely candidate to win a recently added contest on PlayStation.Blog -- all you need to do is write an "inspirational battlefield speech" for Zipper Interactive's upcoming plus-size shooter, MAG.

Winners may hear their speech included in an upcoming trailer for the highly anticipated title, and will receive an ambiguous "fantastic MAG prize" to boot. Unfortunately, the contest's rules hamstring entrants by prohibiting cursing and quoting other legendary leaders. You'll have to save your profanity-laden Churchillisms for your Anachronistic Civil War Re-enactment Club.

JoystiqMAG trailer requires your inspirational battlefield speech originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Administrators of the European version of the Game Developers Conference just revealed yet another keynote speaker for the event -- not at all shockingly, the speaker is Quantic Dream CEO and founder David Cage, whose company has released titles such as Omikron: The Nomad Soul and Fahrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy, as it was known in the States), and is currently hard at work on Heavy Rain. Considering said studio is based out of Paris, we suppose Cage is European enough to keynote the conference.

Cage's address sounds pretty interesting -- it's titled "Writing Interactive Narrative For A Mature Audience." Considering what we've seen of Heavy Rain, he's probably the right person to deliver such a speech. However, considering what we remember of Indigo Prophecy, the first half of the speech will likely be gripping and insightful, and the second half will be nigh-incomprehensible. We fully expect to hear Illuminati conspiracy theories spoken in Esperanto. Backwards.
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JoystiqHeavy Rain's David Cage to deliver keynote at GDC Europe originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Andre Furtado isn't an artist, as he's quick to tell me when showing off the somewhat simple drawings and animations of his XNA Challenge entry Abdux. But while visual art might not be his specialty, Furtado's work shows a certain artistry in the simple, natural input it uses.

Furtado first made his mark on the XNA development world with a speech recognition modification to the platform's built-in Space War game. The mod used simple spoken commands like "move" and "fire" to control a pair of helper ships and won Furtado a Brazilian XNA competition. He hasn't gotten similar speech commands into his new alien abduction game yet, but he says he plans to let people create plagues like earthquakes with just the sound of their voice. "Perhaps in the future we will be made fun of for using keyboards and mice and gamepads to control games," he tells me.

Furtado isn't in the competition for personal glory, but for experience and knowledge that he can take back to his fellow students in Brazil. "With technology like XNA, students and organizations can easily build a roadmap to game development without much knowledge of programming," Furtado said. Check out some early video of his latest creation after the jump.

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JoystiqXNA Challenge: Abdux originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We love Spacey.

The DS Lite! (deafening applause)

Oh, I couldn't possibly ... take the stage, me? No, no, no ... please ... well, if you insist ....

What can I say to you lovely people that I haven't already said before? But you know, being up on this stage for the thirty-seventh time is really something significant; I mean, I'll remember this one for sure. We here at Nintendo have always pushed the boundaries, daring to do what no one else in the industry would ... we supported the first elvish video game character, you know, and we even backed the gay population with everyone's favorite character, Tingle.

(scattered chuckling)

And of course, I'd like to thank ... what the hell? PSP, get off the stage!

You can't tell me what do to ... I mean ... to dooooo ....

Are you drunk? Heavens, man.

I deserve the award, me! I have the leet warez, and an arrowww ... a green one, you know? Yours is red, they hate you, they hate you ....

Security? Can I get a little help here?

Long live the PSPPPPPPPPP!

Hey! Put some pants on, man!

- DS Lite: 104,487 19,650 (15.83%)
- PS2: 24,727 3,537 (12.51%)
- PSP: 21,603 553 (2.63%)
- GBA SP: 2,299767 (50.07%)
- Xbox 360: 1,743 358 (17.04%)
- Game Boy Micro: 1,714 441 (34.64%)
- Gamecube: 653 165 (33.81%)
- DS Phat: 273 13 (5.00%)
- GBA: 37 25 (208.33%)
- Xbox: 3 5 (62.5%)

[Source: Media Create]

[A special thanks to Zoolander for the inspiration.]

JoystiqJapanese hardware sales, 9 October - 15 October: Oscar acceptance speech edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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