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During today’s Nintendo GDC keynote, Satoru Iwata demonstrated a title called Rock and Roll Climber for WiiWare.

Apparently, it allows players to defy virtual gravity by scaling rockfaces using the Wii Balance Board in conjunction with the Wii-mote and Nunchuck.

Then, when you reach the top of your craggy adversary, you’re given the ability to spit in gravity’s face with a rockin’ guitar jam session. Space travel doesn’t have anything on this.

We can’t wait until the inevitable volcano level. Guitars, rockfaces, and hot lava. Sign us up.

GDC 2009 will take place on March 23-27 next year, according to this. The Moscone Center, yet again, will be the setting for the show.

Right here. As reported yesterday, PlayStation home has been changed significantly from its showings at GDC and E3 last year. The online, virtual space system for PS3 was seen yesterday in its new form at Imagina 08 in France. Home is now slated for a “spring” release, and you should expect a full showing at GDC later this month.

Double uh oh. Videogamer.com reckons the recent Sith Gamer interview with Robbie Bach, which detailed some of what Microsoft is expected to show at GDC next month, is “entirely fictional”.

The interview, which claimed Alan Wake and Halo Wars would be shown at the California developer conference, was picked up all over the web, with a showing of Alan Wake now a truth in the mind of the internet. We’re not just talking about small sites here, either.

“It now turns out that all this teased info has come from the mind of the blogger, Microsoft informing VideoGamer.com that this interview is entirely fictional,” said Videogamer.com’s report.

Well, if this story’s correct there are going to be alot of red faces in the morning. Thanks to Videogamer.com for what has to be the funniest story of the week so far.

So says, this. Crytek will show the engine running on consoles at the show, presumably as a precursor to announcing a console version of Crysis in the not-to-distant future.

GDC, the San Franciscan developer conference, runs from February 18-22.