GDC: Nikki Inderlied in San Francisco with Flowers In Her Hair

i4U News Game Developer Conference videos are now being posted daily to the Sanyo Energy USA myspace blog. Check them out.

GDC: One Laptop Per Child

Nikki checks out the current "one laptop per child" phototype.


One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit humanitarian effort, to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops inexpensive enough to give every child in the world access to knowledge and modern education. OLPC is based on constructionist theories of learning pioneered by Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, and principles expressed in Nicholas Negroponte's "Being Digital".


The OLPC project is young, but it is moving quickly and has attracted incredible support and creativity. The laptop was designed by experts from academia and industry with decades of collective field experience. The result is a harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra low-cost, durable, and power-efficient machine with which nations of the emerging world can transform the quality of their children's learning.


Nikki's video interview will be published this week. Stay tuned.

GDC 2007 RPG Panel

Video: GDC 2007 RPG Panel

IDG: Phil Harrison GDC Interview

GDC Video Reports

In addition to being offered on i4U News, our GDC video reports will be edited and published over the next couple of weeks on a variety of social networking video sites:

Geelix.com
Youtube.com
Video.Google.com
Video.Myspace.com
Soapbox.MSN.com
GameTrailers.com
MyGamerSpace.com

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MTV GDC Video Reports
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GDC: Shane Kim interview 1 of 3

GDC: Photos From March 9

GDC: Shigeru Miyamoto Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award

Shigeru Miyamoto accepted the Lifetime Achievement Choice Award at the Game Development Conference in San Francisco last night. To see video reports of the i4U News Crew coverage go to the i4U News site: http://video.i4u.com/gdc.php

Speaking after he accepted his lifetime achievement award Shigeru Miyamoto, said: "Getting awards like this makes me feel old and like you expect me to retire soon."

At Nintendo Mr Miyamoto has been the creative force behind the Super Mario and Legend of Zelda games. - BBC UK

GDC Photos

Nikki Inderlied, Trip Hawkins and Katelyn Olmstead. Watch the video interview on i4U News.
Katelyn Olmstead interviews Trip Hawkins.

Nikki retrieves her cell phone from the trash.

Photos From GDC

Nikki holds an eneloop 2AA pack sample that the i4U News crew is passing out at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week. To see the video reports, go to i4U News


Nikki reading the GDC program to figure out which daily sessions she wants to attend.
The i4U New crew second interview of the conference with with Adobe. All interviewees receive eneloop samples

Sanyo Energy, USA Sponsors i4U News Crew Coverage of The Game Developers Conference

Avid Girl Gamer To Video Blog and MoBlog Annual Video Gaming Show

San Francisco, CA - Sanyo Energy, USA is sponsoring the i4U News Crews’ multimedia coverage of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 5-9, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Nikki Inderlied, Entertainment Journalist, will host the onsite, on-camera interviews with industry insiders and put the new games through their paces. Embedded code of Ms. Inderlied’s video reports for bloggers and webmasters are available at: i4U News, Game Trailers, video.Google.com, Current.TV, YouTube and MySpace. (Search: Nikki Inderlied)

Sanyo Energy, USA eneloop rechargeable/recycleable batteries are the ideal solution for all the next gen video game consoles wireless controllers. A Wii user posted his experience on a popular online forum stating: "I use these batteries for video game controllers because of the ability to maintain a charge. Given the sporadic use, NiMh batteries would not be viable as they lose charge quickly. Highly recommend these. Even bought 8 for my brother."

An eneloop Myspace page has been created by the i4U News crew especially for video gamers to share their experiences regarding their power hungry wireless digital devices. http://www.myspace.com/eneloop

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TrackIR Explained

NaturalPoint's Warren Blyth demonstrates and explains a form of optical tracking technology that is now being used to enhance control in flight, racing, and FPS games and hints at what's coming next. Visit Warren at GDC 2007 Booth 654 WH

Game Developers Choice Awards to Honor Alexey Pajitnov, Greg Costikyan, George 'The Fatman' Sanger and Shigeru Miyamoto

Luminaries to Receive Recognition for Indelible Impact on Game Industry

The Game Developers Choice Awards Advisory Board has named the 2007 special award recipients: Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, will receive the First Penguin Award for pioneering the casual games market; adventure game hall-of-famer Greg Costikyan will receive the Maverick Award for his tireless efforts to create a viable channel for indie games; game audio legend George "The Fatman" Sanger will receive the Community Contribution Award for his numerous programs that encourage interactive audio innovation and industry improvement; and Nintendo game design icon Shigeru Miyamoto (photo) will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for a career that spans the creation of Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda to the company's recent revolutionary systems, Nintendo DS and Wii.

The Game Developers Choice Award ceremony, hosted by Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions, will take place during CMP Technology's Game Developers Conference (GDC) on Wednesday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. within the Esplanade Ballroom of the Moscone Center's South Hall. The ceremony is produced by the GDC and presented by the International Game Developers
Association (IGDA).

Community Contribution Award

The Community Contribution Award is presented to a developer who embodies the spirit of community and encourages improvement among peers. George "The Fatman" Sanger, music and sound designer for more than 250 games, including LOOM, Wing Commander, The 7th Guest, NASCAR Racing, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo and ATF, will receive this year's award for his development of programs that enrich and encourage advancements within the interactive audio community and industry in general.

Sanger has been creating music and other audio for games since Thin Ice for Intellivision in 1983. In 1991, at the first Spotlight Awards, the Audio award went to Sanger's Wing Commander, and one of the only other two nominees was Sanger's LOOM. At various developer conferences, Sanger has hosted "Demo Marathons" to allow game producers to be exposed to the music of many musicians from all over the world in a single sitting. His writings in his Music and Computers Magazine column, "Ride the Wired Surf," were meant to promote ideals and attitudes that would lead to better music on computers. On the edge of the Canyon of the Eagles over the Colorado River, Sanger hosts both the annual Texas Interactive Music Conference and BBQ (Project Bar-B-Q), the computer/music industry's most prestigious and influential conference. Based on 11 successful years of influencing and galvanizing the audio and technical community at BBQ, in 2006 Sanger hosted the first Project Horseshoe, an intense think-tank aimed at solving game design's toughest problems. Sanger's book, "The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness," is less a technical work than a treatise on the benefits of living creatively and treating people well.

When I grow up I want to go to GDC

The i4U News Crew is getting ready to video blog the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, March 5-9.