It's GDC time

[Flabio]

Next week is the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

In recent years the 'developers' part has been overshadowed by pubishers using it as an 'early E3' to showcase their new games. This year it seems to be moving away from that again, there is no keynote speech for example.

Not that this means we won't get new announcements and videos of course. The publishers are just going to run their own events *near* GDC instead.

So, anyone going?

[Family Fry]

They have done this to push away the press away from GDC, as said it was becoming more or a press event rather than a developer event. EA are holding a Showcase on March 6th (Stream-EA GAME CHANGERS) to unviel some new stuff from Maxis and others.
(Last years GDC EA Showcase showed off Battlefield 3, Shadows of the Damned, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Alice: Madness Returns and Crysis 2)

I always try to look out for new PC/XBLA/Indie showings at GDC, Epic are showing off some NEW Unreal 4 engine demos, hopefully they will surface and blow our chops off.
Are there any interesting roundtables/keynotes to look out for at all?

Hmmm what's this? *cough* *cough* *cough*

http://lionhead.com/

['Press Start']

Hmmm what's this? *cough* *cough* *cough*
http://lionhead.com/

Nothing Fable related hopefully. Populous please.

[nonny]

Apparently there will be some battlefield 3 DLC news. Looking forward to that as its been very quiet lately...

[EvilBoris]

Nothing Fable related hopefully. Populous please.

EA own populous, so it won't be shown by Lionhead if it does exist

[Family Fry]

Best we can hope for is that EA turns Populous into a FPS with a weak story.
Oh I went there.

[Daragon]

Any more word on that Fable the Tank-Engine game?

Not that I need any more reasons not to buy Kinect of course.

[Flabio]

Any more word on that Fable the Tank-Engine game?

I'm still working on it, if that's what you mean

[Daragon]

Yes, the one that honest-to-God isn't an on the rails adventure

Still, I did enjoy that Dragon Quest one on Wii a little bit so....

[Corranga]

Nothing Fable related hopefully. Populous please.

The facebook link at the bottom of the page points to:

http://www.facebook.com/FableGame

...but then maybe Lionhead simply don't have a facebook presence other than the Fable one..?

[EvilBoris]

Yes, the one that honest-to-God isn't an on the rails adventure

Still, I did enjoy that Dragon Quest one on Wii a little bit so....

Maybe they aren't making it for you?

[Daragon]

What? I'm just saying I enjoyed the "on-rails" Dragon Quest.

Maybe they aren't making it for you either

Maybe they should be making it for people like me, people who aren't totally against the idea of an "on the rails" type of game?

[EvilBoris]

My mistake, just read like you found the idea of an on rails fable laughable.

[Daragon]

I was merely making light of the general mass opinion of the game when it was announced and demo'd in a supposedly inaccurate form.

[EvilBoris]

I'm still unsure about it, I'm keen to see what kind of experience innovative company like Lionhead can pro duce.

I was all for Kinect, but it hasn't really delivered the variety of gaming experiences I'd like, maybe The Journey can change that.