Sweet! 6,000 zombies on screen and now multiplayer too? Yummy. Yes, after some confusion at GDC, turns out Dead Rising 2 will be getting multiplayer after all. This was confirmed by series creator Keiji Inafune last week at Captivate '09, but the now question is: what type of multiplayer will it be? Left 4 Dead Rising 2, ey?

Leipzig's over and the Tokyo Game Show won't be till October. But that doesn't mean there won't be any other conferences around to satisfy ever-curious gamers' appetites. And this time, we won't even have to fly overseas. The Austin Game Developers Conferences is coming up next, and they've added in a nice touch to this year's event.

And no, I kid you not. A PC version of FFXIII is in the works. These words come straight from Yoshinori Kitase, producer of Final Fantasy XIII, (PS3, Xbox 360) when he spoke to NVIDIA press relations at the recent E3 Media & Business Summit 2008. We guess all the emotions drawn from the announcement of Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 forced every other word that Square Enix said to fall on deaf ears, but luckily, someone was listening. And listened good. The details at the full story.

Speaking at the GDC in Paris, BioShock (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) lead programmer Chris Kline said that the game should gave failed from the get-go. This caught many attendees by surprise because BioShock was one of last year's most decorated titles. Why did Kline say this? Find out in the full article up ahead.

Ben Cousins, executive producer at EA's DICE studio, revealed that DICE actually has five different Battlefield games in varying stages of development, including Battlefield: Bad Company (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) and Battlefield Heroes. Learn more after the jump!

Telltale's Sam & Max series of episodic content has been getting a lot of attention lately. If you've ever wondered what made the game's episodic marketing model pretty successful, head on over to the full article where Telltale's CEO Dan Connors spoke about just that.

As we all know, events such as the Game Developers Conference are vital to improving the state of the video game in general. With that in mind, you may want to take a peek at the speakers featured by the Parisian GDC organizers. The event is scheduled to take place this June. More details after the jump!

Mirror's Edge could very well be an Halo 3-Assassin's Creed mash-up with its first-person parkour gameplay. However, this same innovation lends itself to concerns on motion sickness for gamers.

Read more on the explanation of Electronic Arts' Digital Illusions CE (DICE) studio about this head-spinning issue as well as the lack of greenery.

People have this need to belong; no one wants to feel left out. How would you feel if you weren't allowed to attend a big gaming event because you're not a member of the press? Unfortunately, that may just be the case next year with the GDC, DICE and E3. More "exclusive" news after the jump.

Unlike western developers favoring middleware like the Unreal Engine, Square Enix built different technology from scratch for every game they have developed.

It's only recently that they began to standardize their technology, from the White Engine to the Crystal Tools. In this interview of Taku Murata, he talked about the philosophy behind Crystal Tools. Find out more after the jump!