SAN FRANCISCO — Sid Meier, creator of Civilization , says gamers are a bunch of head cases. “Player psychology has nothing to do with rational thought,” said the acclaimed game designer during his keynote address at the Game Developers Conference on Friday. Titled “The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong),” the speech talked about what’s going on in a player’s brain as he plays a game, and how designers should anticipate and react to their irrational expectations.
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It can take years for studios to create a Wii remote responsive game. It took Zipper Interactive around six weeks of serious development to drop in fluid PS Move controls in their simulation shooter SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALS .
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GDC 10: Zipper does Move control right, SOCOM 4 hands-on
SAN FRANCISCO — For the future of Final Fantasy , director Motomu Toriyama is looking to Uncharted 2 . The interactive cinematic scenes in Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed action game seem to have inspired Toriyama to try the same thing in the Final Fantasy games, he said at his Game Developers Conference panel on Friday.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Final Fantasy XIII began its life as a PlayStation 2 game.
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GDC: What Final Fantasy XIII Looked Like on PlayStation 2
The Xbox 360 version of BioShock 2 topped the sales charts in February, moving half a million copies in a month packed with big game releases, the NPD Group said Thursday. Boosted by BioShock , Dante’s Inferno and continued sales of Modern Warfare 2 , the Xbox 360 was the best-selling home game console in the U.S
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February NPD: BioShock 2, Xbox 360 Top the Charts
SAN FRANCISCO — “Audio is my lover,” Akira Yamaoka said as he kicked off his presentation Thursday at Game Developers Conference.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Nintendo’s Metroid games take their creative cues from an unlikely source: Dario Argento, the Italian horror film director. At his keynote speech during the Game Developers Conference on Thursday, Metroid creator Yoshio Sakamoto said that Argento’s films Susperia and Deep Red , which he discovered in his youth, awoke his creative sensibilities.
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GDC: Metroid Creator Inspired by Italian Horror Films
SAN FRANCISCO — Kumar Garg, policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wants the game industry to address America’s “national challenges.” In a keynote entitled “Grand Challenges for Game Developers” delivered at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday, Garg focused on videogames’ unique ability to engage, immerse and teach.
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White House: Ask What Game Developers Can Do For Your Country
SAN FRANCISCO — Sony’s motion controller is called PlayStation Move and will be released this fall, the gamemaker said Wednesday. Whether any killer app games will be released with it is still in question. At a lavish press briefing taking place a few blocks away from the Game Developers Conference, Sony revealed the final name and specifications of Move, which it first showed off at last year’s E3 Expo.The controller itself is almost exactly like the Wii remote, although Sony says it is more precise: PlayStation Eye, Sony’s already-released camera peripheral, sits near your television and tracks a glowing plastic ball on top of the controller.
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GDC: Sony’s Motion Controller Underwhelms With Janky Games
SAN FRANCISCO — Search behemoth Google buttered up the game development community at the Game Developers Conference Wednesday by handing out free mobile phones. At the tail end of the panel “Bring Your Games to Android” presented by Jack Palevich — the programmer who recently ported Quake to the Android platform — representatives from the company gifted a Motorola Droid to every developer who listened in on Palevich’s pitch session. Google launched the Android operating system for mobile phones in 2008.
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GDC: Google Courts Game Devs With Free Phones
