Gdc-2011 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

GDC 2011: Building the Angry Birds franchise

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2011)

Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka hosted an entertaining panel on the first day of the 2011 Game Developers Conference here in San Francisco. Rovio's app, Angry Birds, is the runaway hit of Apple's iOS platform, signifying both the potential reach of iOS games and the chance for indie mobile developers ...

GDC 2011: Smule's retrospective

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2011)

Our friend Dr. Ge Wang of Smule kicked off the 2011 Game Developers Conference with a panel providing a nice overview of all of the company's apps so far. The theme of his talk was basically what we spoke with him about at CES earlier this year: as computers grow from mainframe to personal ...

Apple's announcement timing is uncanny

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2011)

Tony Bradley at Macworld points out something interesting that I've also been thinking about: Apple is being awfully sneaky with its timing when it comes to product announcements. The upcoming March 2 event happens to land not only right around the time that Motorola's much-anticipated Xoom ...