All day an ominous lull has been hanging over the video game industry. The Game Developer?s Conference (GDC) just started today and tends to offer some great insight into the creation of video games, both through retrospectives on already released games and new announcements. Google announced that it has something to show in a keynote tomorrow, and all of those rumors from last year about Google entering the video game scene suddenly start holding a lot of water.
But what could Google be showing" Are they releasing a console themselves" A streaming service" Will it be compatible with other console manufactures like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, or is Google entering as a competitor to further confuse the market" That?s the question swirling around everyone?s minds.
When a forward thinking tech giant like Google comes in to a very well established but growing industry, they aren?t just going for the status quo. They want to push the envelope. It?s doubtful that it will release a standard console, given Google?s history with networks and cloud infrastructure. So will they beat Microsoft to the punch on the ?console as a service? design I talked about just last week" Will their hardware be a dongle like the Chromecast, or better yet, maybe just a controller that allows you to connect to whatever Google?s gaming service is" (Kotaku?s Jason Schreier seems to think there?s some weight to that theory.)

For us ?gamers,? it doesn?t make a whole lot o...