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Scenes from GDC 2010 (photos)

With the 2010 edition of the Game Developers Conference winding down, we've put together a short photographic tour of our week, from Sony's PlayStation Move launch to the booth-filled expo hall. Though surprises were few and far between, we did pick up on some new lines of perceived wisdom from our fellow attendees in the form of trends and themes to watch out for.

Dan Ackerman
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications. "Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
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Sony's on-site PlayStation booth.
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PlayStation Move and Sony's upcoming EyePet app.
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Nintendo's GDC booth.
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Another view of the Move controller.
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Some of the groundbreaking new games on display at the Game Developers Conference.
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How can you tell it's a video game event? The untouched fruit plate.
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Sony unveils the PlayStation Move.
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Demoing a fighting game for the PlayStation Move.
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Playing a first-person shooter with the Move and its awkwardly named sub-controller.
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An excited young man tries out the PlayStation Move for the first time.
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More Move action.
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A closer look at the Move controller.
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Tech companies such as Intel dominated the expo floor.
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Nintendo demoing new games.
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The Crytek game engine in 3D--not that it really translates well to photography.
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A faux living room setup for music game Power Gig.
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Blizzard was, not surprisingly, popular with attendees.
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It wouldn't be a trade show without DeVry.
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EVE Online is a cult favorite MMO that has managed to survive in the post-Warcraft era.
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Microsoft's game demo station.
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If you've seen a tree in a game, it's likely a product of a program called SpeedTree.
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More PlayStation Move demos.
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The stage at the IGF and Game Developers awards shows.

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