Gaming Steve
Gaming Steve is an industry insider and independent commentator of the gaming industry. Through his podcast, web site and forums, Steve delivers inside information, opinions and commentary about the video game industry.
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Commodore 64 Coming To Virtual Console
Nintendo today confirmed that it will be expanding its Virtual Console selection to include the legendary Commodore 64 in Europe. American Commodore fans are currently being snubbed, with no confirmation of them appearing on the Virtual Console service over the pond. Moreover, each game will cost yo …
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GDC08: Portal's "Still Alive" coming to Rock Band
Huge Success! The song that kept GlaDOS in all of our hearts well after Portal came to an end (which won GDC's Game of the Year award by the way) will be coming to Harmonix's rock band simulator... Rock Band in the form of DLC. From the Rock Band Blog: That is when we jumped on-stage and pulle …
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Gaming Steve Episode 70 - 02.21.2008
Sorry I didn't have a show yesterday as I was having "hardware issues". But I'm back today with a quick recap of GDC 2008 days 1 and 2, plus a little interview with Spore Producer Caryl Shaw. Caryl sat down with me to talk all things Spore for a good half hour, so stop reading this and start listen …
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GDC08: Sony's PhyreEngine Brings Powerful Development to PS3 ... and Xbox 360?
Sony touted their free to use cross-platform development engine at GDC, with some interesting details. Perhaps most of note is the fact that this Sony created development engine can be used to make games for the PS3 as well as the PC and Xbox 360. So far three games have used the engine (flOw, G …
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GDC08: Spore City Music Planner Demostration
A demonstration of the city music planner that I recorded from the Spore talk, "Procedural Music in Spore" from the Game Developers Conference 2008.
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GDC08: Spore Spaceship Editor Demostration
A demonstration of the spaceship editor that I recorded from the Spore talk, "Procedural Music in Spore" from the Game Developers Conference 2008.
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GDC08: Spore Creature Editor Demostration
A demonstration of the creature editor that I recorded from the Spore talk, "Procedural Music in Spore" from the Game Developers Conference 2008.
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GDC08: New Spore Pictures from Spore GDC Talks
Today I attended two different talks on Spore today and managed to take as many pictures as I could while liveblogging those events. I'll also be posting several videos I took at those events later today once I can find some stable bandwidth to upload these monsters. All of the pictures were take …
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GDC08: Fable 2 Getting 2-Player (Maybe Online) Co-op
More details about Fable 2 have been revealed at GDC including 2-player co-op on one machine, though Peter Molyneux wouldn't rule out the feature being implemented online. Currently players will be able to instantly join another players game (unfortunately without their now synonymous canine compani …
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GDC08: Gears of War 2 Announced
Microsoft finally lifted the curtain on Epic???s highly-rumoured Gears of War 2 at their GDC Keynote today. The game is slated to be released this November in a press release after the conference, which also included a nice quote from everyone???s friend, CliffyB, lead designer for Epic Games: "T …
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GDC08: Liveblogging "Pollination the Universe: User-Generated Content in Spore"
2:25 ??? Okay, this I did not expect. The talk is in a conference room underground and I can???t get a signal. So this will be a delayed liveblog, sorry everyone. 2:28 ??? Caryl Shaw started her talk, said that the European version is coming out first is that Europe is a much larger PC market tha …
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Nintendo Dates Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii for Europe
Today, Nintendo has revealed the dates for two of their most anticipated Wii games in Europe. Mario Kart Wii will be released on April 11th, with Wii Fit slated to be released later on April 25th. That Mario Kart Wii European release date is good, as it???s a day after the Japanese release, and …
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Microsoft Announces Xbox Live Community Arcade
After two years of keynotes and press events, Microsoft seems to have finally committed to their "YouTube of games" with Xbox Live Community Arcade. Based of the XNA development software, gamers will soon be able to make games on PC and move them to either the Xbox 360 or the Zune. Using peer …
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GDC08: Liveblogging "Procedural Music in Spore"
11:57 - Just ran from the Microsoft keynote -- biggest news was Gears of War 2 announced for release this November 2008. Also ran into Caryl Shaw who is giving a Spore speech at 2:30 PM PST. She said to me that she was "going to be showing a lot, I should be really happy with what I see." Can't wait …
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At GDC and Not Liveblogging the Microsoft Keynote
Hey all I'm here at GDC, waiting for the Microsoft event to start, but I won't be liveblogging the Microsoft Keynote in order to save my laptop battery for the two Spore talks later today. Tune back at 3:00 EST PM for "Procedural Music in Spore" and then later at 5:30 PM EST for "Pollination the …
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GDC08: Ridiculously Good Real Time Motion Capture from Mova for Unreal Engine 3
Without the need of those goofy mo-cap ping pong balls, motion capture company Mova is bringing near photo realistic quality motion capture to the most popular current generation graphics engine. Using an array of cameras, powerful software maps 100,000 polygons in real time to create highly life l …
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Toshiba Discontinues HD DVD, Blu-ray Wins the Race
The high-def format race is finally over. Toshiba announced today it will no longer develop, make, or market HD DVD players and recorders. "We concluded that a swift decision would be best," Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters in Tokyo after making the announcement. To some t …
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Rumor: Microsoft to Acquire Epic Games?
Yesterday a GamePro editor created quite the stir by speculating that Microsoft may be acquiring Epic Games for approximately $1 billion. While Microsoft would certainly be interested in Gears of War and Unreal Tournament, the majority of the buyout would certainly be for the Unreal Engine 3. Of …
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Gaming Steve Review: Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry 4 Developer: Capcom Production Studio 1 Publisher: Capcom Price: $59.99 Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC Category: Action ESRB Rating: M for Mature Release Date: February 5, 2008 (US), January 31, 2008 (Japan), February 8, 2008 (Europe), February 7, 2008 (Australia) DMC …
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Magic: The Gathering Coming to Xbox Live Arcade and PC ... But It's Not What You Think
Today Wizards of the Coast announced that they have begun developing games for the Xbox Live Arcade and PC based on their Magic: The Gathering franchise. With their partnerships with Stainless Games and Mind Control Software, Wizards of the Coast have begun work on two games: one for the XBLA and PC …
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