The organizers behind the Game Developers Conference will be giving it another shot in August with an in-person event called GDC Summer. After the coronavirus nixed plans in March, which should be happening as of when we're writing this article, the convention said they'd look ahead to see what they could do. Now we know […]
GDC 2020 may be postponed as an event, but organizers have decided they will continue to run some of the plans strictly online. The organization will provide free streaming content from March 16th-20 between 9am-5pm each day, featuring many of the original speakers who would have been at the event in person. This includes the […]
So in the wake of GDC 2020 being canceled, something many of us don't see is the financial aftermath that takes place on indie developers. While bigger companies like Facebook, Sony, and Electronic Arts can blow off their travel plans like its nothing and maybe even get their money back from organizers, it's the smaller […]
This afternoon, after several cancelations and pullouts, GDC 2020 has officially been postponed and will not take place this March. Organizers issued the statement below to all media outlets, merchants, vendors, attendees, and more to let them know the details. While not specifically mentioned in the information below, it's clear having multiple companies pull from […]
Microsoft has become the latest company to announce they've pulled out of GDC 2020 over concerns regarding the coronavirus. We apologize if this is starting to sound like a broken record, but the company issued a statement (which we have a bit of it for you below) stating their decision. They will be going to a […]
The latest company to pull out of GDC 2020 this week is Electronic Arts as they've cited the coronavirus as their main reason. Word got out from the company, not by any official channels, but through a LinkedIn update. The update in question came from Alex Sherer, who is an Ad Product Development Specialist at […]
Continuing the trend of companies bailing from conventions due to the coronavirus, Kojima Productions has pulled out of GDC 2020. The company posted a notice on its website informing attendees of the tough decision they had to make this year. The statement was pretty brief, but it confirms Hideo Kojima will not be in attendance. […]
Joining the growing list of companies pulling out of events due to the coronavirus, Facebook has decided to skip GDC 2020 this year. The company posted the notice you see below on Oculus' website, letting fans and attendees know they would not be at the convention. Instead, they will be doing a live video presentation […]
Sony has decided to pull out of two more conventions in 2020, but this time due to concerns over the Coronavirus, as they skip GDC and PAX East. The company announced earlier that they would be pulling out of PAX East in a statement on their blog, now it appears they've added San Francisco's event […]
Another set of awards announced for GDC 2020 week as the Game Developers Choice Awards released their list of finalists. Completely separate from the IGF Awards, but held in conjunction with them. These will be presented on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 6:30pm at the San Francisco Moscone Center. You can check out the entire […]
Earlier today, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) revealed the finalists for the 22nd Annual Independent Games Festival happening during GDC 2020. We have the full list of nominees for you here, along with honorable mentions for each category. The awards ceremony will take place on March 18th, 2020 as one of the many events happening […]
GDC and PAX East this year hosted a Brazil Games Showcase, which brought some of the best indie games from Brazil to the states in order to look for publishers, and press. Several of the showcase games were up for awards at GDC Play this year, and quite a few took home top honors. I […]
Red Blue Games' Sparklite is a brawler-adventure with procedural world generation, but its classic influences are pretty obvious even at first glance. The game's rogue-like level map generation, and sardonic humor set it apart as a fully modern invention, but the top-down isometric view, world-building, and art style are clearly reminiscent of early Nintendo classics, […]
Merge Games' and Blackstaff Games' Buildings Have Feelings Too is a real-time city builder with a twist. In this game, buildings cam walk and talk to each other, each has its own aspirations, fears, and desires. The official game description reads: Players must grow their city whilst making sure the individual buildings thrive, or risk them […]
Rebellion's remaster of Sniper Elite 2 was playable at GDC last month, to show off the all new graphics, rendering technology, and improved x-ray kill cam. The soul of the game is still the same in the remaster, with players taking on the role of elite sniper Karl Fairburne, who parachuted into Berlin for the Nazis' final […]
Operencia: The Stolen Sun is Zen Studios' homage to classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, and is based on several Central European folktales. An old-school turn-based battle system is just the icing on the retro cake that is this game. The plot synopsis is pretty, well, standard: An unknown force has abducted the Sun King Napkiraly, leaving Operencia in a […]
Novaquark's Dual Universe is a continuous single-shard sandbox MMORPG, meaning that players share an absolutely massive world of potentially millions of players on one server. And the worlds of Dual Universe are fully editable by players. Novaquark's player-driven approach to the game also manifests in the game's economy, politics, trade, and warfare, all of which will be […]
Paranoid Productions' The Church in the Darkness is a stealth infiltration game with a side of mystery and human psychology. But it absolutely does not endorse the thought of joining a cult. Loosely based on several different and problematic cults, though the easiest touchstone is of course The People's Temple (better known as "Jonestown), the game […]
Iceberg Interactive and Shifting Tides' The Sojourn is a gorgeously atmospheric adventure game that tasks players with finding the darkness within the beautiful world around them. Players will uncover those dark secrets by solving unique puzzles that have a habit of screwith with your perception of reality. The game is broken up into four chapters, each […]
Afterparty is Night School Studio's ltest game, and predictibly, that makes it an indie game worth paying attention to. After all, Night School is the studio behind cult indie hits Oxenfree and Mr. Robot. Afterparty game puts you in the role of two recently deceased best friends Milo and Lola. The newly-dead duo find themselves facing an eternity […]
