The Game Developers Conference 2010 is currently underway, which means you should expect lots of semi-exciting announcements: Everyone knows that developers save all their big stuff for June's E3 event!
News Blips:
Sony officially announces their new motion controller, the PlayStation Move. They plan to sell the device, with the PlayStation Eye and a game, as a starter kit priced under $100. Much like the Wii, the Move also has an extra nunchuck-style component called the PlayStation Move Sub-Controller. It's like the first time I saw the original PlayStation controller and thought that they had blatantly copied the Super Nintendo -- excuse: "But this controller has four shoulder buttons!"
OnLive announced that their eponymously named games-on-demand service will be ready to launch June 17, 2010. The company boasted that consumers will be able to play and access games such as Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Borderlands, and Dragon Age: Origins via a broadband connection. The basic fee is set at $14.95 a month, though OnLive CEO Steve Perlman warns that "the service fee does not include the purchase or rental of games." Regardless, this service sounds like just the thing I need to confuse the kids down at the public library. [GamePro]
MySpace announces their new game service, unsurprisingly named MySpace Games. The social networking site's Co-President, Mike Jones, said that they "believe the new experience will empower even more of the MySpace audience to discover, share, and showcase games." My favorite game to play on MySpace is a little gem called "I wasn't friends with you in high school, why would I be friends with you now?" [IndustryGamers]
Speaking with Forbes, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime suggested that the Wii's successor is still a ways off. Specifically, he pointed out that when "the software developer comes forward with an idea that can't be executed on the current platform, that's when we start thinking seriously about the next system." And as to whether Nintendo is at that point, he said, "we're not there yet, from a Wii perspective." That's cool -- this just means that Nintendo fanatics now have more time to come up with Photoshop mockups of what the new system might look like.
Does Microsoft have LittleBigPlanet envy? The company currently has a video up on a British Xbox Live promotional site that prominently features the song Get It Together by The Go! Team, a track heavily associated with Sony's DIY classic. I doubt that this is a hint that Sackboy will be making his way over to the 360 -- it's just Microsoft being unoriginal. I can think of at least two other played-out indie rock songs they could have gone with. [submitted by reader Garreth Murdock]
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