#clips It looks like those leaked screen shots were real, showing stills from a trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution premiered tonight at the Game Developers Choice Awards. More »

#deusex3 We just were sent a load of images from what we're told are screens from a Deus Ex: Human Revolution trailer. No idea if they're real, but Eidos Montreal was talking about it today at the Game Developers Conference. More »

#dc The 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards kicks off now. Stay tuned to see if your favorite games, publishers and developers win the big awards. More »

#gdc10 Yes! The IGF Awards are happening right now at this year's Game Developers Conference, a chance for indie developers to be handed awards under bright lights and for those indie developers to give short, awkward speeches. Let's do this!!! More »

Watch the awards presentation ceremony live on GameSpot.com, as the winners for the Independent Games Festival 2010 competition are announced at GDC right now. The event this year is hosted by Kyle Gabler (World of Goo) and Erin Robinson (Puzzle Bots).

Student Showcase Award Winner:
Continuity

Technical Excellence Award Winner:
Limbo

Excellence in Design Award Winner:
Monaco

Excellence in Audio Award Winner:
Closure

IGF Best Mobile Game Award Winner:
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor

Excellence in Visual Art Award Winner:
Limbo

Nuovo Award:
Tuning

GameSpot: GDC Awards Show (livestream)

The CNET News article, GDC: What’s next for video game AI?, features demos of EIS research projects delivered at the AI Summit at GDC along with the latest AI demos from Richard Evans and Ian Holmes. The AI Summit session, Experimental Game AI: Live Demos of Innovation, included demos of EIS’s Starcraft agent and The [...]

This surprisingly broad lecture on game design was given by Noah Wardrip-Fruin to help students review for the final exam in our Foundations of Interactive Game Design class. However, if you are not one of the 300 students in the class, you might find it quite interesting to share with a friend. Perhaps you know [...]

The Global Game Jam 2010 concluded over 30 days ago, but the treasure trove of indy creations it left behind remains largely unexplored. Then again, how is anyone supposed to review some 1000 games created specifically for an event that shuns any global judging? Who has that kind of time anyway? Certainly not overworked grad [...]

AIIDE 2010 has posted a call for papers, just in time to advertise the conference at GDC. The deadline for papers and the industry track is May 16, 2010. This year AIIDE will also be hosting a StarCraft AI competition!

The Game Developer’s Conference is less than a week away, and for those who don’t get to see what goes on during this amazing week, we, at the Expressive Intelligence Studio, put together a mini documentary about the “People Behind the Products.” Now, we aren’t film-makers at EIS, but in addition to doing some awesome [...]

Over at the Armory Data Mining blog, a plucky computational biology PhD student under the name of Darush has taken a look at some World of Warcraft Armory data and run some fascinating transformations to analyze the number of Druid players that favor bear form vs cat form when they play World of Warcraft. Note [...]

EIS is now able to claim “big in Santa Cruz” after being featured in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the local newspaper (I’ve also heard reports of the story being syndicated to the San Jose Mercury News for the wider Bay Area).

“Façade tried to solve this problem by replacing the parrot with something more like a brain-damaged human; Heavy Rain, by comparison, is probably the best-trained parrot in history.” From Archie Bland’s Control freak: Will David Cage’s ‘Heavy Rain’ videogame push our buttons?

“Developing Games for 2020″ Bob Mitchell, ohai Date: Thursday, February 25th Time: 2:00pm Place: Digital Media Theater, UCSC Hosted By: Noah Wardrip-Fruin Abstract Students at UC Santa Cruz today will be among the engineers, artists, designers, and producers leading game teams in 2020.Review some of the changes to interactive entertainment over the last ten years in order to look ahead to the [...]

“The breadth of video game development” (working title) John Davison, Executive Vice President of Content at GamePro Date: Tuesday, February 23rd Time: 2:00pm Place: Digital Media Theater, UCSC Hosted By: Chris Lewis, Noah Wardrip-Fruin This lecture is free and open to the public, but visitors should purchase a parking pass from the visitor kiosk at the main entrance. There they can [...]

#oddities So, this guy gutted an Outrun arcade cabinet, jammed it on a go-kart and, in the name of university research, assembled a contraption that drives 15 mph in the real world while displaying it as an 8-bit virtual one. More »

#salesget It's been almost four months since a Pokemon game was the bestselling game on Japan's software chart, but Nintendo's newest Pokemon Ranger title for the Nintendo DS ends that dark period for the franchise. Whew! More »

#gdc We saw a peek of Slider yesterday when he trailer was released, but today I got a chance to zip down a paved street on an office chair with the help of the PS3 Move controller first-hand. More »

#gdc10 Just as it did with its colorful puzzle game Critter Crunch, Capybara Games' Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes is getting the high-definition once-over, making the jump from Nintendo DS to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this year. More »

#gdc Here is Bit.Trip Runner, the first sidescrolling game in the Bit.Trip series of downloadable games for the Wii. Two videos of the game played by G4's Patrick Klepek. Shot by me. Keep the guy running, synced to the music. More »