Greetings fellow GDnet community members. It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the brand new version of The GameDev.net website, something that has been in development in one form or another for the past five years. Yea, five years. Besides the challenge of hitting a moving target in terms of ke…

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At the end of last month I was sitting at my computer and staring at the lit of new poll options for GameDev.net. I run the weekly polls that appear on the main page and lately there haven't been many people submitting poll ideas and I've had trouble coming up with go…

The last day of LOGIN is wrapping up this afternoon, and as always it's sad to see it end. As I said in my blog about yesterday and Tuesday, this conference is primarily focused on networking, since there are only a few hundred attendees taking up a single location. You'll always see that guy you m…

Beautiful weather in Seattle is the backdrop for this year's LOGIN conference, which is now in its second day. I'm sitting here digesting a delicious Mexican-themed lunch and listening with half an ear to the lunch keynote rambling on at the front of the room.

The awesome thing about LOGIN is that i…

Luckily after my adventures last night I had plenty of time to rest and recover before the sessions kicked off at 11am this morning. It's another beautiful day here in Vancouver with partly-cloudy skies and a high of 60F, which is actually perfect even though you are right next to the water - the s…

Thursday, May 6th



After last night's festivities, today was officially the first day of GDC Canada, and I rolled into the convention center around 10am to catch the start of the sessions at 10:30. I skipped the keynote, as I usually do at conferences because they are always covered online later anyw…

Wednesday, May 5th





This is my first time out in Vancouver, and my first time attending GDC Canada, which is now in its second year as a Game Developer Conference offshoot. So it's nice to know that the Canadian Videogame Awards are also in their very first year and they kicked things off in a big wa…

So I had this all typed up and ready to go earlier and then restarted my computer without saving the draft I had open in Notepad2. FAIL. Given how much I hate retracing my steps I waited a few hours and some new stuff came in for me to talk about so that makes things a bit better.

E3 pass giveaway

I …

You might have noticed a bit of a change to the front page today. We're unfortunately running a bit short on box ad space here on the site. What can we say? People want to throw money at us. Until V5 goes live and we vastly increase our capacity for ad boxes, we needed a way to accommodate advertis…

Welcoming back Kevin, Dave and Tiff

If you haven't noticed, Tiffany Smith has been posting a lot of news recently on the front page, and that's because she's recently stepped back into the role of News Director. As the weeks and month progress and she settles back into her role we're looking to star…