PlayStation at GDC 2007 Info

ThreeSpeech is reporting that PlayStation is planning the following tidbits for the Game Developers Conference occurring this week in San Francisco:

• Phil Harrison, president of the worldwide studios to deliver a keynote speech titled ‘Game 3.0: Developing and Creating for the 3rd Age of Videogames.’ His speech will concentrate on UGC and community, complete with demos of new services and games.
• Sony PlayStation plans to champion new development tools for the PS3, PSP and Network. Some of the exclusives include:
  • Tuner for PS3 – a profiling tool enabling developers to improve code performance.
  • Unreal Engine 3 – Epic’s next-gen game engine technology for genres such as fighting games, shooters and multiplayer online RPGs.
  • High-Level Graphics Package, PSSG (PS3 optimized cross-platform graphics engine and tool-chain) production-ready extensible scene-graph framework which is written to take advantage of the PS3’s strengths.
  • Pioneering profiling and analysis tools and physics technologies
  • Developing with Linux on PS3
  • Demonstrations of downloadable titles from the Network including flOw, Blast Factor and Calling of Cars.
• Sony Computer Entertainment developers, engineers and other specialists will also be hosting various education panels to support and encourage the creative innovation of developers and publishers.