GDC 2011

[solidsnakejej]

So, GDC is this week, Sony is expected by some to have the biggest presence, Uncharted 3 will be there and along with some other big 2011 titles excluding Sorcery and TLG.

A breakdown of this weeks keynotes and events (left some out since I'm creating this on the Sony board).

Tuesday, March 1

EA offsite event – This is the main GDC games event. EA will be showing Battlefield 3, Alice: Madness Returns, Shadows of the Damned, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Crysis 2, Battlefield: Play4Free, Gatling Gears, The Fancy Pants Adventures and more. The main reveal will be Battlefield 3, coverage of which is embargoed until Wednesday, March 2 at 6.00am PST (that’s 9.00am EST, 2.00pm GMT and 3.00pm CET), with other editorial being released in a staggered fashion over the following week.
Wednesday, March 2

NGP session (1.30pm PST, 4.30pm EST, 9.30pm GMT, 10.30pm CET) – This should be worth watching. According to the blurb, Sony is to “introduce a new handheld console,” and will “talk about the device’s broad range of input and connectivity options and how these create exciting new opportunities for game designers.” SCEA’s David Coombes will be doing the talk.

David Cage session – (4.30pm PST, 7.30pm EST, 12.30am GMT, 1.30am CET) – Watch this. Cage is talking about Heavy Rain development here, but has promised to “try to foresee how games could evolve to offer more subtlety and complexity in matter of narrative and emotion.” The French developer has been dark for nearly a year now, and is a proper dev darling: seeing something dropped on the next game wouldn’t shock.

11th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards and 13th Annual Independent Games Festival Awards (6.30pm PST, 9.30pm EST, 2.30am GMT, 3.30am CET) – We’ll bring you all the results as soon as they go live. If we were gambling men, we’d be backing BioWare and Notch.
Thursday, March 3

Ubi Toronto’s Patrick Redding (9.00am PST, 12.00pm EST, 5.00pm GMT, 6.00pm CET) – Redding is giving a talk on creating co-op gameplay, using Splinter Cell Conviction as an example. Pro tip – the developer was the narrative designer on Far Cry 2. Just saying.

Cliff Bleszinski session (1.30pm PST, 4.30pm EST, 9.30pm GMT, 10.30pm CET) – You can’t miss this. “Cliff Bleszinski has not done a public lecture in years and has a lot to say,” according to the session text, and promises that “attendees will be entertained, informed, and enlightened by the anecdotes and lessons that Bleszinski will expound over the course of 60 minutes.” The epic design head will be talking about PR, marketing, branding, story, context, camera placement, the state of the AAA games market now and in the future, social gaming and “general observations about the manner in which the gaming industry is run.” It’s likely to be a standout session from the outspoken developer, so make sure you bring your soundbite umbrella.

Thief 4 (4.30pm PST, 7.30pm EST, 12.30am GMT, 1.30am CET) – Eidos Montreal’s Paul Weir is giving a talk entitled, “Stealing Sound: The Application of Generative Music”. Square’s already confirmed that this will include a first look at Thief 4, but don’t get too excited. You will see something of the studio’s reboot of the classic stealth IP, but quite what you’ll see may not exactly blow the roof off. And you very well may not see anything at all: the session will only be recorded in audio form, which suggests there’ll be a strict no filming or photo policy. This will be a serious developer session which is likely to show a little of Thief 4′s play to illustrate the use of audio. Don’t expect a full-blown “reveal,” put it that way.


Darkness II
Prototype 2
Guild Wars 2
World of Warcraft
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Mortal Kombat
Batman: Arkham City
Elements of War
Tropico 4
And some other stuff we can’t talk about yet

http://www.vg247.com/2011/02/28/this...hat-to-expect/

[Segitz]

It's also Cebit this week in Hannover, Germany... though I don't think we'll hear a lot about gaming there (although 3DS is there).

[solidsnakejej]

Today is very exciting day. We've been holding a big secret for the last two years and at GDC later today we get to tell you all about it http://fb.me/sCiHSqhc

http://twitter.com/#!/SuckerPunchPro...22867850010624

Sly 4?

[Luis]

Sounds like there will be exciting news this week

Isn't March usually a period of major news before the drought prior to E3?

[Chris Metal]

Who made Syphon Filter again? cause I'd like to see another one of those.

[solidsnakejej]

SCE Bend has been making them, current working on Uncharted for NGP.

[gnznroses]

Crossing fingers for Starhawk info.

[cliffbo]

has Sony got a conference?

[TEEDA]

live blog but no videos
http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2011/...anel-liveblog/

talking bout NGP right now

1:48 Now they're comparing PSP & NGP

Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:48
1:49 Screen Rez: PSP- 48-x272, NGP- 960x544

Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:49
1:49 Game Size: PS3 Games- 9GB, NGP- 2-4 GB
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:49
1:50 In average...
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:50
1:50 On average
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:50
1:50 Cores: PSP- 1 core, PS3- 6 high performance cores, NGP- 4 symetrical cores
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:50
1:51 No problem @Co2-UK
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:51
1:51 Let's get the room to 500!
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:51
1:52 VRAM: NGP has a lot in comparison to the PSP
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:52
1:52 Clock Speed: Because it's portable it will not perform as highly as the PS3.
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:52
1:53 Time to finally debunk that rumor :P
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:53
1:53 Connectivity: Increased network and game integration with system softwar. "Much more social"
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:53
1:54 woot, 516! Awesome guys
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:54
1:54 Easy to convert form Xbox and PS3. Interesting that they mention Xbox. Targeting Xbox developers perhaps?
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:54
1:55 Wireless will launch day 1.
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:55
1:55 Quote from the powerpoint "Everything is great for something and worst for something else" -Microsoft person, didn't catch the name, lol
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:55
1:56 Buttons: Responsive and Very Precise.
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:56
1:56 Touch:
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:56
1:57 Will be very intuitive. touch points on a 2D plane even though its in a 3D game.
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:57
1:57 Touchpad: Simultaneous touches on the same screen. Both front and back.
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:57
1:58 Damn my touchpad on my laptop. keeps hitting enter when i dont mean to,lol
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:58
1:59 Rear Touchpad: Can be used for a variety of actions- Crouching, Snipe, Map, Melee
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:59
1:59 Again emphasizing how intuitive it is. Seems like very natural using the touchpad.
Wednesday March 2, 2011 1:59
2:00 Potential for rear pad to toggle through weapons instead of using menus. Faster gameplay.
Wednesday March 2, 2011 2:00
2:01 Only demo so far has been little deviants.
Wednesday March 2, 2011 2:01
2:01 He's saying swiping up and down can be used for crouching @jesmusesa Wednesday March 2, 2011 2:01
2:02 Moving on to the camera and microphone. Wednesday March 2, 2011 2:02
2:02 Talking about how one will be "passive" for taking pics, etc, and the other will be more "active". mainly for integrating into gameplay Wednesday March 2, 2011 2:02
2:04 Talking about how the camera could be used for texture to implement into Little Big Planet, a game already announced for the NGP. Wednesday March 2, 2011 2:04
2:04 Moving onto augmented reality games.

[jako]

Nice typo by SOny at GDC : 41.6M PS3 sold !!

http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/62...s-sony-ps3.htm

lol

[solidsnakejej]

Battlefield 3 game of GDC:http://multiplayer.it/video/battlefi...y-gdc-2011.lo/

Damn they took it down.

New link

[TEEDA]

back up link

the particle lighting is beautiful

[Coded-Dude]

damn it gone again!

[solidsnakejej]

rapidshare link:http://rapidshare.com/#!download|519...1.hi.mp4|50226

[OmniStalgic]

I would feel almost wrong playing that lol...

Eerily realistic, animations and lighting is shocking. COD-killer, graphically yes, but there's no way console versions are gonna look like that and play at anything close to 60fps.

But, at least the PC gamers can laugh at COD-only fellas hahhaha...

[Diresu]

^Now if only I didn't have to get a new PC for that to run.

[AC!D]

Ill reserve judgement till i see more gameplay but i have faith DICE will deliver.

[GTAce]

Please don't fuck up the PS3 version! Please don't fuck up the PS3 version! Please don't fuck up the PS3 version!
Please don't fuck up the PS3 version! Please don't fuck up the PS3 version! Please don't fuck up the PS3 version!
Please - - - - - - - - - - - - - - version! Please - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - version!
Please - - - - - - - - - - - - - - version! Please don't fuck up the PS3 version! Please don't fuck up the PS3 version!
Please don't fuck up the PS3 version! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - version! Please don't fuck up the PS3 version!
Please - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please don't fuck up the PS3 version! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - version!
Please - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please don't fuck up the PS3 version! Please don't fuck up the PS3 version!

[Segitz]

From what they say on B3D, the PS3 version sounds REALLY good, using a LOT of SPU power to help rendering the graphics.

[AC!D]

I dont see why they would stuff up the PS3 version. They have made 3 games which ran just fine on PS3 so far for me. It will be a graphical downgrade and the multiplayer wont be as robust but other than that you should be saying please make the PS3 version look better or on par with Killzone 3 not dont stuff it up.