During Dave Jones (Realtime Worlds) session titled My First MMO at the Game Developer’s Conference, he granted attendees a first look at his MMO project titled APB.

One of the highlights of the Game Developer’s Conference is the Annual Game Developer’s Choice Awards – an awards show that recognizes some of the best games of the prior year.  But the winners here are selected by developers, and that’s not an easy task considering the amazing year 2007 was for games. 

Epic unveils four new features sure to be on display in this winter's release of Gears of War 2 - calm down kids - it's not like we didn't know it was coming!

The Microsoft keynote here at the Game’s Developer’s Conference included a number of unique announcements as Microsoft prepared to democratize games’ development, granting the creative types at home the ability to create custom games using XNA tools for the Xbox 360, PC, and Zune.

As far as casual games go (or any development project in general), the most difficult task is coming up with a core concept.Traditionally developers have emphasized brainstorming as the most effective design philosophy, but leave it to academia to present a different answer.