To kick things off at GDC this year, I sat through the morning sessions of the Serious Games Summit. If I could get wifi access I would have transcribed my notes directly into the blog for your perusal, but such is the life of a GDC attendee.

In any case, the notes I took will be posted here sometime today. First I need to complain about UBM Technology's inexcusable slight against GameDev.net.

GameDev.net has been a media partner of the Game Developer's Conference for the last 3 or 4 years, but this year the GDC/Gamasutra/ThinkServices group decided to drop GameDev.net from the media partner list.

So my question to the person who made the decision and waited until we realized we were never contacted, only to then reject us for media partnership when we brought it up, despite the previous 3 or 4 year relationship: what's the deal?

Are we not providing good enough coverage? Who in your media list - besides the Game Developer sibling Gamasutra - provides as-good-as coverage of GDC as GameDev.net? Only a handful in the list can provide the right exposure for the conference to your target audience.

Did you get poor results from the highly-beneficial-to-GDC (and free) ad campaigns we've provided in the past?

Or are you just playing hardball?

GameDev.net is a very accomodating and flexible group, so to drop a relationship with us without prior notification is a pretty low blow. It certainly isn't appreciated.