{"id":553,"date":"2006-03-24T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T02:43:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:04","slug":"game_developers_conference_summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/03\/24\/game_developers_conference_summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Developers Conference summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick overview of the news from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">GDC&#8217;06<\/a>. There is a good roundup on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/\">Next Generation<\/a> and you can find more detailed information on the usual sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General news<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It looks like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are all hoping to break the retail model with the introducion of their download services.<\/li>\n<li>PS3 doesn&#8217;t live up to the &#8220;target renders&#8221; from last year&#8217;s E3. (<em>Gasp!<\/em>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Shadow of the Colossus gets almost half of the Game Developers&#8217; Choice Awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nintendo news<\/strong> (from Iwata&#8217;s keynote; see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/newsarticle?articleid=64wsG8LoGw3vuttzAr5zU-s70OLsg6Fm\">press release<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be Sega Genesis and TurboGraphix games on the Revolution&#8217;s Virtual Console Service.<\/li>\n<li>Zelda: Phantom Hourglass was announced for Nintendo DS! See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/pop_video.vm?url=http:\/\/media.nintendo.com\/mediaFiles\/fDp6jkG4NYgUu74upE_kpwhmLp5Xq3-f.mov&amp;width=600&amp;height=420\">video<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What happened to the announcement of the official name for the Nintendo Revolution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick overview of the news from GDC&#8217;06. There is a good roundup on Next Generation and you can find more detailed information on the usual sites. General news: It looks like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are all hoping to break the retail model with the introducion of their download services. PS3 doesn&#8217;t live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/03\/24\/game_developers_conference_summary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Developers Conference summary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-8V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}