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GamersNexus: "After the typically groggy-Monday start, San Franciscos Game Developers Conference enjoyed its most bustling day on Tuesday, March 18th. We met with Paradox, Obsidian, and Sony Online Entertainment for the day, with SOE stealing the show on the topic of their impending EverQuest Next and EverQuest Next: Landmark titles."

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Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled DirectX 12, its new graphics API.

According to the company, Xbox One and Windows gamers alike will reap the benefits of this new, visual-boosting tech. "Xbox One games will see improved performance and we’ll bring the same API to all Microsoft platforms," Microsoft's Anuj Gosalia said during the company's GDC panel (via IGN).

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf has moved over 7.38 million units worldwide, revealed series' creator Katsuya Eguchi at the Game Developers Conference this week. In addition to just being a great game with a great marketing effort, the game also did as well as it did because of how the development team was split gender wise.

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Nintendo has been showcasing a variety of indie titles developed using Unity Pro for the Wii U at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week.

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Microsoft whisks the wrappers.
Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its DirectX graphics software at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, as promised. During the event, Turn 10 software architect Chris Tector screened a video of a limited port of Forza Motorsport 5, which has been converted to showcase DirectX12's capabilities.

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Naughty Dog's The Last of Us was awarded Game of the Year during the 14th annual Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony, which took place this evening during the 2014 Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The game was also honored with Best Design and Best Narrative Awards during the event, which was emcee'd by inimitable industry veteran Abbie Heppe.

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In a Classic Game Postmortem session at the 2014 Game Developers Conference today, Yu Suzuki director, producer, designer and writer spoke about the origins and development of 1999 Sega Dreamcast adventure role-playing game Shenmue.

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New API to "squeeze every last drop of performance" out of the console.
There are just three hours and pocket change to go till Microsoft's DirectX 12 presser at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - it'll kick off at 10am PDT, or 5pm London time and 4am in Sydney. The new version of Microsoft's age-old graphics application programming interface is tipped to appear on Xbox One as well as PCs, tablets and phones. Care to speculate on what the practical consequences might be?