Cliff Johnson’s 1987 Mac game, The Fool’s Errand, was featured at GDC today in a panel entitled “Stories Best Played: Deconstructing the Best Interactive Storytelling.” The game was an example of how to tightly integrate storytelling and gameplay.

Independent games make me excited. The unrestrained creativity of game developers trying to break into the industry can be a dynamic and explosive thing. So I had to check out this years GDC mobile awards to see what the best had to offer.

A few minutes ago at the Microsoft keynote, Peter Molyneux officially showed off the online co-op of the upcoming Fable 2. Unfortunately for him, however, his in-game friend happened to murder Peter’s wife right in front of him. Oh yeah, Peter Molyneux is a red-headed chick with some nice boobs, which came as quite a [...]

Cliffy B has just announced at GDC 2008 that Gears of War 2 will in fact be released in November 2008.

Unlike most sequels, the Game Developers Conference Day 2 did not suck. The Ripten crew actually did stuff today! Amazing!

Our first edition of Ripten TV features a review of a free energy drink at this years GDC. Will it taste good, and more importantly, will it live up to its six hour promise? Find out for yourself.

Hot on the heels of the announcement that Street Fighter IV will be playable at GDC, Capcom has also revealed that both Bionic Commandos–the XBLA downloadable remake of the original, and the next-gen, kosher frank-smuggling reboot, will be shown as well.