If The People I Am Having Lunch With Say Anything Interesting, I Will Update This Post [Gdc]

Sitting at a long table. Finished my lunch. At this table are Dave Perry (Earthworm Jim), Kristian Segerstrale (Playfish), Rich Hilleman (Made the first Madden), Warren Spector (Epic Mickey), Mark Cerny ( Lots of stuff ). Post will be updated regularly. More

Carmack Doom-ed to Lifetime Achievement Award

id Software CTO to pick up top honor at 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards as part of GDC in San Francisco next month; Warren Spector hosting.

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GDC Awards Honor John Carmack’s Lifetime Achievement [Gdc 2010]

id Software co-founder and one of the fathers of the first-person shooter, John Carmack is being presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards. John Carmack has been pushing video game technology past its limits for more than two decades, pioneering real-time 3D graphics, creating and honing countless game development techniques, and looking beyond the constraints of hardware. Instead of wondering what he can do within the constraints given, Carmack is the sort of guy who immediately begins looking for ways to break out of those constraints. And yes, he helped create one of the greatest games of all time – Commander Keen. Doom was pretty good too. On March 11th, during the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC, former Lifetime Achievement Award winner Wii Wright will present the award to Carmack, during a ceremony hosted by noted RPG developer Warren Spector, who should have plenty of Epic Mickey jokes to share with the crowd. And Kotaku will be there, as always, with the play-by-play. “It’s no exaggeration to say that John Carmack and id Software have had a monumental influence on all modern 3D games, but especially the first-person shooter genre,” says Meggan Scavio, Event Director of GDC. “John is one of the key figures in the history of video games, and we’re delighted to be giving him the Lifetime Achievement award this year.” I couldn’t agree more.

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Kotaku Talk Radio is Live: Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age, LoL [Podcast]

In this week’s episode of Kotaku Talk Radio we’ll be talking about all of those great games we’ve been playing through over the past month as well as the latest news. We’ll also be chatting about Halloween, Warren Spector and fundraisers. Of course don’t forget to listen to our week’s taste of music too. Most importantly, we’ll be taking calls from you. Now’s your chance! Call now! Ask away. To listen, head over to our BlogTalkRadio page . Unfortunately, you can only listen live on the BlogTalkRadio website. Want to be heard on Kotaku Talk Radio? Call us on the air LIVE at (347) 857-3782! Listen to Kotaku Talk Radio Live

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Warren Spector So Not Done With Deus Ex [Deus Ex]

Warren Spector , creator of Deus Ex , isn’t letting the fact he no longer has access to the series stop him from dreaming up more games in the series. Well, maybe not series. “Series”. Spector – currently at work on Epic Mickey – has told Variety that prior to picking up work the Disney gig, he and his wife had been kicking some ideas around for new projects, one a massive piece of original IP, the other a “spiritual successor” to Deus Ex. He says that at one time he tried to get the rights to his game back from publishers Eidos, but they weren’t willing to part with it, so Spector was forced to come up with a Go-Bots to Deus Ex’s Transformers. “There were and still are ‘Deus Ex’ stories I would like to tell. That story is not done for me,” he told Variety. “[For the sci-fi game] I sort of filed the serial numbers off. ‘Deus Ex’ was very much a game of the millennium.” Behind the scenes at “Epic Mickey” – Part One [Variety]

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Disney Considering Movie, Comics for Epic Mickey [Wii]

No decisions have been made, but Disney Epic Mickey designer Warren Spector has his way we’ll be seeing a lot more than a game coming out of the concept behind the moralistic reimagining of Walt Disney’s most beloved character. “I’ve had some discussions with people and really, really want to see some comics and cartoons and feature animation built around this,” he Spector told Kotaku. “There have been discussions about all sorts of things talking about other possibilities around this project. “I really hope it’s going to happen and I’m going to keep beating on that drum.” In Disney Epic Mickey , due out next fall, players will take on the role of a Mickey Mouse thrust into a dystopic world of his own accidental creation called The Cartoon Waste Land. Once there he will use a paint brush and thinner, controlled by the Wii’s remote, to reshape the world while battling the animated creations inside. Spector told Kotaku that he isn’t worried about bringing the game only to the Wii, despite the relative failures other third-party developers have seen on the platform. “I think there is always a risk,” he said. “The nintendo games are fantastic and do extremely well and third-party don’t do quite as well. “We are putting a lot of muscle behind this. We have an advantage that no one has. You say Mickey and Disney and the whole world changes, everything changes. If anyone has a chance of really delivering something special on the Wii, Nintendo-level special, it’s us.” Spector says that he has every intention, Disney has every intention, of this game becoming an established and beloved franchise. “I certainly have big plans,” he said. “Have they been approved? No. But I have had a lot of discussions about what is going to happen next. In my mind it’s already a franchise.” Succeed or fail, Spector and his team aren’t holding anything back on this game. “I really can’t abide the thought that it will be OK or mediocre,” he said. “We are going after Mario and Zelda, Ratchet and Clank, we all aspire to that. “I don’t always succeed, but we’re always shooting for the moon,” he said. “I’m a man of many motos and one of them is fail gloriously.”

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To Be Perfectly Clear, Epic Mickey Is Wii "Exclusive" [Disney]

Any lingering doubts that Warren Spector ’s new Disney game Epic Mickey was bound for the Wii ? Didn’t think so. But if you’re wondering if it will also be coming to, well, anything else, here’s your unfortunate answer. Game Informer , as part of their epic Epic Mickey coverage, reconfirm that the game is a Wii “exclusive.” Given that the game appears to feature a mechanic that’s reliant on motion control, rumored to let Mickey Mouse paint and erase the environment, how could it possibly come to anything else? Epic Mickey Coming Exclusively To Wii [Game Informer]

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To Be Perfectly Clear, Epic Mickey Is Wii "Exclusive" [Disney]

Any lingering doubts that Warren Spector ’s new Disney game Epic Mickey was bound for the Wii ? Didn’t think so. But if you’re wondering if it will also be coming to, well, anything else, here’s your unfortunate answer. Game Informer , as part of their epic Epic Mickey coverage, reconfirm that the game is a Wii “exclusive.” Given that the game appears to feature a mechanic that’s reliant on motion control, rumored to let Mickey Mouse paint and erase the environment, how could it possibly come to anything else? Epic Mickey Coming Exclusively To Wii [Game Informer]

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To Be Perfectly Clear, Epic Mickey Is Wii "Exclusive" [Disney]

Any lingering doubts that Warren Spector ’s new Disney game Epic Mickey was bound for the Wii ? Didn’t think so. But if you’re wondering if it will also be coming to, well, anything else, here’s your unfortunate answer. Game Informer , as part of their epic Epic Mickey coverage, reconfirm that the game is a Wii “exclusive.” Given that the game appears to feature a mechanic that’s reliant on motion control, rumored to let Mickey Mouse paint and erase the environment, how could it possibly come to anything else? Epic Mickey Coming Exclusively To Wii [Game Informer]

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Epic Mickey Revealed, Warren Spector Speaks [Game Announce]

It should come as little surprise that Warren Spector and his Junction Point development studio have been working on Epic Mickey , a game half-revealed by rumor , concept art and sparse details . But now it’s official. Disney’s Epic Mickey is also the subject of the latest issue of GameInformer magazine , which should appear in subscribers’ mailboxes starting next week. The Wii game , said to be a Mickey Mouse platformer that involves the painting and erasing of levels, a struggle by Disney’s lower caste of characters to dethrone the mouse. Based on the cover art from the latest GI, it looks that, if anything, Spector and crew have managed to create something visually intriguing, with the rumored gameplay mechanics only slightly less interesting. GI also has a video interview with Spector up, in which he talks about his love for things Mickey Mouse. It’s light on actual Epic Mickey game details, but heavy on Spector face time. Warren Spector & Mickey Mouse [GameInformer]

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