Playrhq's Blog – March 2009 Archive (3)

10 Things GDC 09 Will Be Remembered For

Yep, the annual gathering of the world's game development community in San Francisco used to be a pretty low key affair. But in recent years thanks to high profile press conferences packed with big consumer focussed announcements (remember this is where the world first glimpsed Little Big Planet and Gears of War 2), the event has changed. For the casual observer picking up news via the journalists attending, they could easily think now that it's a kind of E3 type affair - where next year's… Continue

Added by playrhq on March 28, 2009 at 10:30am — 8 Comments

Why OnLive is Not An Original Idea

Not surprisingly that announcement by OnLive at GDC has got many tongues a wagging, but the idea of a micro-console isn’t an original one.

It was 2006 that we first came across the concept. Chris Deering, who had been the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe during the launch and rise of PlayStation, told us in a private interview that there probably wouldn’t be a PlayStation 4, at least not in the traditional form. Our jaws dropped. He said gaming would move on to servers and… Continue

Added by playrhq on March 27, 2009 at 9:30pm — 6 Comments

Is This The End For Consoles?

One of the biggest events in the video game calendar, the Game Developers Conference, has just come to an end. And quite a week it was too. Not just because 25,000 video game designers, programmers and artists managed to make their way to San Francisco all by themselves. Not even because Nintendo revealed they'd sold a gob smacking 50 million Wiis. No, it was remarkable because for once the big news was nothing to do with Sony, Ninty or even Microsoft.… Continue

Added by playrhq on March 19, 2009 at 4:30pm — 7 Comments