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Most UI panels at the Game Developers’ Conference tend to be full of dry technical information, all about how the team developed their own font kerning tool and organized menu elements in a data-driven fashion. The Harmonix UI panel this morning hosted by Senior Artist Kevin McGinnis did have that stuff (McGinnis is a self-diagnosed font geek, and did sound overly excited about formatting bitmaps), but it was also full of art — beautiful The Beatles: Rock Band inspired art. McGinnis talked about the different concepts the team had tried — they first attempted to do a very clean, serene respectful version of the menus, but then decided to go much more colorful.

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GDC: The UI of The Beatles Rock Band

EEDAR hosted a two part panel at GDC this year. In the second half of the panel — you can read about the first half here — Jesse Divnich presented the results of an Xbox Live Achievement study the firm recently conducted. The info was pulled from a pool of 32 million data points — provided by MyGamerCard.net — and centered on a random sampling of 100 different Xbox 360 games

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GDC 2010: EEDAR on Achievements, user behavior

Earlier this month, Take-Two announced the potential movement of one of the titles planned for release in its fiscal fourth quarter, extending from August to October. The choices were: LA Noire , Mafia 2 , Max Payne 3 , or Civilization V . During our demo of Mafia 2 on Wednesday, we were told the game would make its Q4 release, removing it from the list of potentially delayed titles

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Q4 release for Mafia 2 (re)confirmed; Payne, Noire, Civ V still on hit list

One of the big trends at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference is social gaming, thanks to wild success stories like Facebook-powered Farmville .

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Will Wright predicts social games will grow to 25 percent of market

EA DICE has been a fairly prolific developer during the current console generation, churning out both a high-profile title based on original IP ( Mirror’s Edge ), as well as ones based on established franchises like Battlefield . EA was searching for a way to capitalize on the downtime between these blockbuster releases — a game which would be relatively quick and painless to create, while still standing up to the quality standards set by their previous releases

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GDC: EA DICE on building a bite-sized Battlefield

In a panel titled “Where Did My Inventory Go? Refining Gameplay in Mass Effect 2 ,” BioWare’s Christina Norman talked about the radical changes made to the second chapter in the Mass Effect trilogy. A key goal for Mass Effect 2 was to introduce “more satisfying combat,” with an “intense feel” missing from the first game.

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BioWare’s Christina Norman defines goals for Mass Effect 3

Evan Wells doesn’t look like he’s old enough to be co-president of Naughty Dog , does he? Even after shepherding Uncharted 2 through development, which has picked up just about every award on the planet, he still maintains his youthful vim and vigor. While we don’t know what his eternal youth secret is, he did give us the inside scoop on the workings at Naughty Dog when we spoke with him at GDC .

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Interview: Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells

While it was probably a foregone conclusion that Splinter Cell Conviction was going to get a demo at some point, and we had already heard that we would be getting one in January (that was when the game was set to launch in February) we now have uber-official confirmation that a demo is coming for the game. When? Where

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SC Conviction demo officially confirmed for some time

PlayStation Home director Jack Buser kicked off Sony’s final day of GDC 2010 panels, announcing that the virtual community’s worldwide userbase now stands at 12 million. The population has grown by two million users since December 2009, and is double of what it was in June of last year

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PlayStation Home population at 12 million