The Best (and Worst) of GDC 2009

Learn about what you'll be playing (or avoiding) this year, as we look at some of the best bets--and the weirdest tech--to come out of the 2009 Game Developer's Conference.

Darren Gladstone, PC World

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This has to be an intricate joke, right? Wrong. It's a custom-built take on Guitar Hero--but with a banjo.

While some game-design students receive high accolades and fancy awards for creating mind-bending (and genre-bending) games, some industrious students from the Rochester Institute of Technology get to have my own special brand of props. Their game, Oh-No Banjo, is a "Banjo Simulation Game." You know, for all those people who want to rock out with their banjo out.

This gets a thumbs-up from me--and from Civil War reenactors everywhere, I'm sure. (But I have to give a half thumbs-down for not including the "Dueling Banjos" tune from "Deliverance.")