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GDC: Harmonix on the ups and downs of creating the Rock Band Network 15 March 2010 at 5:30 pm by admin


Eleven days ago, Harmonix delivered on a concept many of us had fantasized about since the very first time we ever played Rock Band : It democratized the track-making process. For the first time in the franchise’s history, any schmo off the street with a bit of MIDI engineering experience and a song in their heart could put that song on the Rock Band Store for the world to see (and hopefully purchase)

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+ Latest Lady Gaga video makes Command & Conquer reference By admin 15 March 2010 at 11:40 am and have No Comments


Yeah, so I get it, we talk about Lady Gaga a lot on Destructoid.

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+ Photo: Silent Hill Composer Rocks Out at GDC By admin 11 March 2010 at 5:26 pm and have No Comments


SAN FRANCISCO — “Audio is my lover,” Akira Yamaoka said as he kicked off his presentation Thursday at Game Developers Conference.

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+ GDC 10: Hands-on with Bit.Trip Runner By admin 11 March 2010 at 12:30 pm and have No Comments

Lawsuits aside , I’m a huge fan of the Bit.Trip series. I may wish nothing but destruction on Gaijin Games, but hell if they don’t make some fantastic stuff. Bit.Trip Runner , Gaijin’s newest game, was playable on the GDC expo floor

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+ GDC: Sony’s Motion Controller Underwhelms With Janky Games By admin 11 March 2010 at 12:03 pm and have No Comments

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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+ Classic Videogames Mutate in Game Over Art Show By admin 10 March 2010 at 7:00 pm and have No Comments

<< previous image | next image >> Classic videogames like Street Fighter and Ms. Pac-Man inspired the artists whose works will be displayed in the Game Over 3 exhibition.

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+ OnLive: Money For Nothing By admin 10 March 2010 at 4:35 pm and have No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO — OnLive, the streaming games-on-demand service, will launch on June 17 for $15/month, the company announced Wednesday at Game Developers Conference. Only the PC and Mac versions of the service are launching on the 17th — the tiny box that connects to your television won’t launch until later this year.

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+ GDC: Big Designers Find Satisfaction in Small Games By admin 10 March 2010 at 1:26 pm and have No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO — Big-name videogame designers are thinking small. Creators of legendary games of the ’80s and ’90s like Sinistar and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are increasingly working on social games like those found on Facebook, largely because the development of popular time-wasters like FarmVille closely mirrors the creative process that drove the early days of gaming: small teams, short production schedules and more creative autonomy for designers.

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+ Rock Band 3 out this holiday season By admin 09 March 2010 at 1:31 pm and have No Comments

Rather than, we don’t know, a press release or any other professional method of disseminating a message (Twitter, perhaps?), Harmonix took to Facebook to tell friends and friends-of-friends that Rock Band 3 will be released “this holiday season.” The announcement is brief and detail-free, but reveals that EA will publish the game — apparently having renewed its Rock Band distribution deal with Viacom. With Rock Band 3, the developer promises to “innovate and revolutionize the music genre once again, just as Harmonix did with the original Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band .” If previous comments by Dhani Harrison are to be believed, you may even learn something from playing RB3! [Thanks Helloimbob!] Rock Band 3 out this holiday season originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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+ Valve Brings Hit Games, Steam Service to Mac By admin 08 March 2010 at 12:25 pm and have No Comments

It’s officially official: Valve will bring its Steam online distribution service and titles from its massive library of hit games to the Mac this April, the company confirmed Monday. The successful content-delivery service will bring Valve titles like Left 4 Dead and the upcoming Portal 2 , as well as games from other publishers, to Apple computers for the first time

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