March, April Bound Into View All At Once

Wow, it's been a little while - and a pretty darn busy time, so I apologize for not updating. Since I last wrote, both the March 2006 (pictured to the right) and April 2006 (see below!) issues of Game Developer magazine have made their way to subscribers - the latter with a neat postmortem of Ubisoft's King Kong by producer Xavier Poix, as well as an exclusive interview with Will Wright that dishes on, uhh, his dream to run in the Baja 500, oddly enough.

We're now finishing up the May 2006 issue, which has a postmortem of Metal Gear Ac!d 2 from that series' helmer Shinta Nojiri at Kojima Productions, as well as an in-depth interview with Gears Of War's Cliff Bleszinski, and any amount of further goodness. This issue gets extra distribution at E3, too, so continues the healthy page counts we've been seeing recently, yay.

Also since I last wrote - blimey, an insane amount of stuff. Game Developers Conference went off really, really well, with lots of Independent Games Festival coverage, and a totally satisfying awards ceremony, complete with amusingly controversial Darwinia acceptance speech. There's some stuff we can do even better for next year (and we're hoping to get lots more roundtables and lectures devoted to IGF-related content - the two we had this year went off really well!), but overall, it was a complete blast.

Of course, I couldn't hang with the IGF folks all the time, because I was also busy helping co-ordinate the Gamasutra GDC 2006 coverage, which seemed to go off really smoothly - was also great to meet magazine contributors, journos, and long-lost friends at GDC. There's been any number of other good Gama features and news there over the past few weeks - was sad to see freelance news guy Nich Maragos depart for a job at Atlus, though, but replacement Jason Dobson is coming up to speed nicely.

Otherwise, our alt.gaming weblog GameSetWatch continues to be a labor of love for me, and we've now added a whole bunch of weekly columns from various crazed folks - mm, custom content, not just reblogging? Crazy! I even kept up with the GSW-ing last week, when I was hanging with the wife and family in New York and Boston for a much needed holiday - pics are up on my Flickr stream.

Now, unfortunately, it's back with the nose for the grindstone for some new site and podcast launches and other wackiness - thanks for tuning in, more fun soon.