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Monday, March 05, 2007

GDC 2007: Day 1 ...

Crud, I'd really planned on doing a blow-by-blow this year, but an implosion on the non-virtual front has got my attention elsewhere. But it's a stupid implosion, so to hell with it, and back to the fun stuff.

Again, I expect this year to be bigger and different than previous years, if publishers / developers try to use GDC to fill the vacuum left by E3. It sounds like from Kotaku's perspective, this might be partially true (at least from a vibe perspective):

"There's a different feel to this year's. The event seems more serious, bigger,
a bit more spread out... horizontally."

Particular items of note so far for me:

Square-Enix enters serious gaming (Gamasutra); Surprising, and logical in hindsight
LEGO MMO revealed (Kotaku)
Microsoft's 'Dream Build Play' $10K Indie / XNA contest (Gamasutra)
Nokia does N-Gage 3.0 (Kotaku); Seriously, they're trying again (but with a better business model)
Sony and Kotaku Make-Up (Kotaku); Powerful people screwing with the blogging digirati doesn't end well for powerful people; powerful people standing against bloggers, take note)

Games I want to "see" at GDC (I'm not there, but I want info on these titles):