Nominations for Develop Industry Excellence Awards are unveiled, and two developers are likely to walk away with most of them. Rockstar and Media Molecule will be contesting for the most category nominations. Rockstar snags six of them with GTA: Chinatown Wars and GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned from Rockstar while Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet alone is nominated for another five.
GamesDog Reports: Sega has released the official 2008 Olympics games video game on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and mobile phones for those who just can't get enough of the Olympics action. There are 38 events for you to take part in across track and field, and for the first time in an Olympic game, it features an online play option. Sega has chosen U.S. gold medal contenders Amanda Beard, Tyson Gay, Nastia Liukin and Reese Hoffa to be on the cover, some of which are gamers as well as real-life athletes. I played the old Nintendo Olympics game with the Power Pad, where you started out as the turtle and worked your way up to the cheetah, said Beard, the youngest US swimmer to ever bring home a gold.
VG247: Just got some new dates from Sega PR. And here they are. * The Hulk PC ¿ public street date is now June 27 * The Hulk Wii ¿ public street date now July 4 * The Hulk PS2 - public street date is now July 11 * Beijing 2008 PC ¿ public street date is now July * PictoImage DS ¿ public street date is Sept 5
Sega's upcoming take on the Summer Olympic Games will not be available on Nintendo formats. This is something of a blow to China, who are trying to raise awareness of their capital city prior to the event. SEGA clearly thinks the Wii and the DS are just for kids. The upcoming sports minigame adaptation of the next Summer games will be available for the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the PC ¿ but not the Wii or the DS.
Sega has given the first detail of its partnership with International Sports Multimedia to create official games of the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
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