ALPHA | GDC REVIEW
GDC 09 in pictures 17,000 flocked to San Francisco last month for the five days of the Game Developers Conference and over 500 sessions and speeches. Michael French runs through some of the highlights. Over 80 news stories detailing all the key announcements can be found at www.developmag.com… MONDAY, MARCH 23rd at iPhone was every where GDC. ‘Spiritual first party’ Ngmoco presented GDC e. Mobile’s opening keynot rly me (for ng Founder Neil You ctly exa d aile det LA) of EA why the iPhone ‘changed everything’, including the have observation that “Apple to ple peo trained 30m download and and install ne applications on their pho an is It . are y the r eve ere wh amazing process we are argue witnessing.” It’s hard to with him.
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18 | APRIL 2009
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