GDC 09: Hideo Kojima’s Solid Game Design: Making the Impossible Possible
GDC Conference Director Meggan Scavio walks onto the stage for the Introduction. “His influence on the video game medium is unmistakable.” And Hideo Kojima struts onto the stage to applause, blinding us with the human body he created, probably, draped in smexy designer fashion, housing the mind that’s making the audience clap until their hands become mush.
And there I am, alone and afraid, amidst the nerds and their slight pungent smell created from walking only a few stairs.
I remember looking over a list of classes to choose from to finish my high school curriculum with. My eyes stopped at “typing class.” Seriously? That was when I started to wonder if the teachers running the school even knew what kids were doing in their spare time. I mean, we got something called 
Many would call you crazy if you wanted to start up a big project during this economic recession, us included. But when we first talked with Immad Akhund and Jude Gomila, co-founders of the free casual game site 
With Street Fighter IV out and about, the staff here at GotGame started to reminisce about our childhood and how we spent those days getting our butts kicked on the Super Nintendo version. But that was our past. What about the past of the street fighter characters? What were they doing before they got into the violent business.
Video game characters these days have grown a lot in the past few decades, not just graphically wise but personality as well. It’s pretty easy to see these type of characters walking around down the block from our house. So one thought led to another, and we started wondering what kind of girlfriends they would have.
Capcom gave out a press release confirming the development of a sequel for the zombie-infested game that is Dead Rising. And everyone here at GotGame sighed in relief when we read that it’s going multi-platform, headed to the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Windows PC. But there’s still the threat of a port to the Wii. 
The PC Gaming Alliance continues to grow in size and prestige with the addition of two more groups to the non-profit organization’s board of directors; The Guildhall of Southern Methodist University and Japanese developer and game publisher Capcom.
Don’t lie. 2008 was a big year for everyone. But for the video game industry, not so surprising in terms of which games sold the most throughout the year. Want to know the top five?