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GDC is on, so I hear

GDC has thrown up some interesting and unusual bits of info. But funnily enough, nothing really to whet your appetite. Let’s have a quick squizz at what the net has been buzzing about.Bear in mind, I’m only reading this stuff from the same sources as you are but you came here for some controller1.com perspective and controller1.com perspective is what you’re going to get, whether you like it or not. What? they’ve gone. Oh well, for those of you still here, here’s something for both of you.

-Nintendo have announced a new Zelda game for the DS. In it, cel-shaded Link  (a la Windwaker/ Phantom Hourglass) plays Casey Jones and rides a train. There’s a Rock and Roll Climbing game using a new peripheral, the Wii Ladder. The Wii can now take SDHC cards. Apparently the extra space is needed to store the new upgrade 128 digit friend codes.

-Controller1.com was not at GDC despite our employers saying they were sending no-one this year.

-Mainframe gaming returns with onlive, a new system to stream games from a  central server in rea…l ti….me. Lag free. orly?

-Controller1.com did put in a request to go last November with an outline of the benefit the company would receive if we were in attendance. We even pointed out the discount on admission fees had we booked before Mid-December.

-Modern Warfare 2 was teased. No mention of Call of Duty in the title so far. Suspicious?

-Even though when we put in our application to attend, there were no sessions listed on the GDC website. They said the sessions would be up early November, but they still weren’t up in January.
Had these sessions been outlined earlier, we might have a stronger case to attend.

-At a panel discussion, a designer from Bethesda made a remark about setting of nukes in Japan in response to a Japanese developer on the panel talking about setting a game like Fallout 3 in Japan. And awkward silence was felt until someone lightened the mood by mentioning Pearl Harbour.

-Some people did actually attend, like Bob from Team Deathwish. Bob started at the company years after I did. Bob’s a bit of a brown-noser it seems.

-There was talk that God of War III would not feature any physics system and would run between 30 and 60 frames per second.

-I showed Bob the ropes when he started and that fucker gets to go to GDC. Who do you have to blow around here to get a ticket?

-Nintendo announced they will be bringing select Namco and Sega arcade games from the 80′s to Wii.

-I think Bob steals cutlery from the kitchenette.

-Microsoft have a new debug 360 with fancy metallic blue highlights and double the RAM of a standard 360 for debugging applications

-I hear, and this is just scuttlebutt from around the office, Bob may be doing drugs

That about wraps up today’s GDC coverage. We hope that you enjoyed it and that that asshole Bob dies in a fiery place crash.