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!

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.

Looking for a cool fighting game to hit the Nintendo DS soon? Naruto: Ninja Destiny (Naruto: Shinobi Retsuden) looks like a good pick. It has some of the best fighting game graphics on the platform along with the trademark Naruto universe brand of action. A video interview from the GDC that shows the game off while the one of the devs talk about it awaits after the jump!

Here's another update from the recent GDC 08. Stormfront Studios' bigwig Don Daglow talked about how developers can learn how to make and develop original IPs from movie games.

He noted that movie-game audiences are able to understand and have emotional commitment to these things. Find out more of what he said in the full article.

Here's a video interview from the Game Developers Conference. Producer Cameron Suey has been able to add more interesting details about the things players can expect from Lucas Arts' upcoming game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Find out what they are after the jump!

LucasArts discussed quite a number of things about their upcoming video game Star Wars: Force Unleashed (PSP, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS) at this year's GDC. For those who weren't able to attend, the developers also showed a trailer of the game featuring lightsaber action and more. Want to see it? Click on the "read more" link below to do so.

More news coming right at you direct from this year's Game Developers Conference, and this time it's about the difficulties of making a multiplatform game - specifically, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, DS) from LucasArts. There's also the deal with the developing team feeling a bit cramped about ESRB ratings, too. So hit the full article to find out more.

Here's a light update from the ongoing GDC 08. Funny as it may sound but it seems that the console wars will continue within Electronic Arts' Spore. Consoles such as the Nintedo's Wii, Sony's PS3, and Microsoft's Xbox 360 were rebuilt in-game.

Check out how they turned out after the jump!

It's no secret that The Sims is one of  Electronic Arts' hottest selling game franchises. But in case you're wondering just how big the game is, EA's Steve Seabolt over at the GDC's Serious Games Summit hints that they'll be hitting the 100 million mark for The Sims sales by next month. More details on what Seabolt said on this matter are in the full article.

Just last year, Electronic Arts donated open-source code of the original SimCity to the One Laptop Per Child Project. And though other similar games from EA were released to be converted into educational or training games, the superstar publisher remains adamant that it still takes its main games seriously and only invest in those "serious games" ventures that will net the company a sizable income.