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Ahead of deadline, GDC Europe adds Wii U, Hitman: Absolution, DeNA talks
As Thursday's early reg. deadline looms, new GDC Europe talks include Hitman: Absolution's AI/animation; distributed work environments for The Drowning; and Nintendo on using Unity, HTML, and JavaScript on the Wii U.
July 17, 2013
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GDC Next's first talks: Disney, thatgamecompany, Google, Adam Orth
GDC Next organizers have announced the first talks for its inaugural event this November - revealing future-leaning talks from Google, Disney, thatgamecompany, plus Adam Orth on 'mob rules'.
June 19, 2013
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GDC adds Game Developer magazine EIC Miller as Online Community Director
UBM Tech have announced that outgoing Game Developer magazine Editor-in-Chief Patrick Miller will be moving to a new role as Director of Online Community for the GDC and ADC events, effective July 1st.
May 9, 2013
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Gender, cloning and heartfelt goodbyes from the GDC 2013 showfloor
Here's our last One Life Left vs. Gamasutra episode of GDC 2013, recorded on the show floor at lunchtime on Friday with a tremendous stream of guests, gently interrogated.
April 5, 2013
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Video: How Assassin's Creed III's many studios collaborated
Five Ubisoft studio leads held a production panel at GDC 2013 to discuss the different models used to overcome the challenge of collaborating on a large scale for Assassin's Creed III.
April 4, 2013
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Listen to Fullbright, Harmonix and NYU from the GDC floor
As the final lectures of last Thursday finished, One Life Left convened another diverse panel to chat some more about life making games in 2013. Click through for portals, storytelling and secrets.
April 3, 2013
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Video: The 9 biggest trends from free-to-play games in 2012
At GDC 2013's Free to Play Design & Business Summit, top analysts from Joju Games, Playdom, and Funsockets review the best games and the nine biggest trends from 2012's Facebook, mobile, and open Web.
April 2, 2013
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Motivation, cross-media pollination and the creative process
GDC 2013 might be over, but you can relive One Life Left's relentless guest schedule, which includes game experts from Double Fine, Lady Shotgun and Spry Fox. Put these people in your ears now.
April 2, 2013
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Ask Gamasutra: What GDC 2013 meant to us
Ask Gamasutra is a regular column that takes issues from within the video game industry, and poses them as a question to the editorial staff. For this edition: what last week's GDC meant to the Gamasutra staff.
April 2, 2013
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GDC Europe 2013's call for talks now open until April 22
The call for submissions to present talks at this August's Gamescom co-located 2013 Game Developers Conference Europe is now open through Monday, April 22.
April 2, 2013
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Wargaming's expansion is relentless - and so far, it's working
If you're making online and free-to-play games, and not watching Wargaming's every move, you should go ahead and start doing that immediately. Gamasutra caught up with CEO Victor Kislyi at GDC 2013.
April 2, 2013
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Video: Spec Ops: The Line contextualizes violence through story
Spec Ops: The Line lead writer and narrative designer Walt Williams discusses at GDC 2013 a four-step process, dubbed "the illusion of casuality," used to make the moment-to-moment violence in-game meaningful.
April 1, 2013