It’s not every day that a new product stands up and makes you do a double take, and having it announced this week makes it even more surprising. The Game Developers Conference is usually a quiet affair, with maybe a casual announcement or two about a console price drop or a new title in production. Today’s announcement has literally screwed up conventional wisdom and thrown it in the trashcan, in more ways than one. The [...]

The approaching week heralds the start of the annual Game Developers Conference over in San Francisco. As the name suggests, it’s more of a developer shindig than a marketing exercise, but you generally tend to get a bucket of announcements before, during and after the event that tend to mix things up a little. However, instead of just pulling through what’s going on during the week and what’s in the announcement pipeline, I thought I’d [...]