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GDC Online 2010: Spacetime Studios and the making of Pocket Legends

by Mike Schramm (Oct 8th, 2010)

Pocket Legends has been out on the App Store for quite a while now, but if you (like me) haven't seen it in a while, you might want to check it out again. Spacetime Studios has been steadily updating the game, and the title they showed off at GDC Online 2010 this week was pretty impressive -- an ...

GDC 2010: Hands-on with Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse

by Mike Schramm (Mar 16th, 2010)

Last month at Macworld, Telltale Games announced that they'll be releasing their games day-and-date on both Mac and PC at the same time. Last week at GDC 2010, they announced a brand new season of Sam and Max, and also the news that, on April 15th, the first episode of The Devil's Playhouse will be ...

GDC 2010: Interview with Faraway's Steph Thirion

by Mike Schramm (Mar 16th, 2010)

Steph Thirion is a game designer who's been releasing some of the most inventive games I've seen on the iPhone. He started out with Eliss a little while back, and he recently announced Faraway, which I got to play at GDC. The night after I played the game (it was at a party called Gamma IV), I sat ...

GDC 2010: The Parrot AR.Drone's augmented reality

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2010)

We actually got to play with the iPhone-controlled Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter back at Macworld a little while ago, but we didn't get a chance to see the "AR" part of it (augmented reality, of course) until GDC last week. Parrot pulled out the AR targets for us, and while the games they had ...

GDC 2010: Interview with Keith Lee of Booyah

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2010)

Booyah is an App Store company with quite a few lessons in its past already. The founders are former developers at Blizzard (they worked on both Diablo and World of Warcraft before setting off on their own), and after their first app, Booyah Society, didn't exactly strike gold on the App Store, ...

Game Developers' Conference to include iPhone Games Summit track

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 13th, 2010)

Macworld reports that the 2010 Game Developers' Conference will include an 8-class track on iPhone games. The iPhone Games Summit, which takes place over two days, replaces an older format where panels on the iPhone were mixed in with those on gaming for other mobile platforms or independent ...