When Tetsuya Mizuguchi left Sega to form his own studio he considered to abandon the whole music/rhythm genre that he is known for. During the Q Entertainment lecture, Shuji Utsumi, current CEO of Q Entertainment, revealed that Mizuguchi-san was considering…

  At the Square-Enix approach on localization panel, Richard Honeywood spoke about doing more than simply translating text when localizing Square-Enix titles. For Chocobo Racing they added rails to make the game easier to play and for the Bouncer they…

Most of the winners of the Developer Choice Awards this year won’t surprise you. Gears of War won best game, Wii Sports got one for game design and the Twilight Princess earned an award for writing. Innovation was a different…

Phil Harrison had a lot to say about the future of the Playstation 3 at his keynote speech last week. There were big announcements like Home, a virtual space for Playstation 3 owners, Playstation Edge for developers and LittleBigPlanet for…

Fellow game journalist and musician Jonathan Mann (aka GameJew) is living the dream. After four days of trying to sing a song to Shigeru Miyamoto he finally achieved his goal at the eleventh hour. The last big evening event at…

Missed out on coming to GDC? You can watch Shigeru Miyamoto’s entire keynote address here. In the speech Miyamoto addresses Nintendo’s corporate vision and inspires game developers to take creative risks to expand the audience of video game players. There…

At GDC there are some pieces of retro video game inspired are that are going to be at next year’s Iam8bit gallery. Here is a preview of what you’ll see more of later this year.    

After not eating for many, many hours I stopped into Mel’s Diner, which is right next door to the GDC show. In their bathroom they have a little chalkboard and someone wrote up the tag line for Age of Conan…

    Microsoft is presenting their panel about what RPGs they have coming on the 360. Peter Molyneux, Sakaguchi-san and Dr. Ray Muzyka from Bioware are sitting down.   "Whats the difference of making an RPG today compared tot he…