GamesRadar - Beijing 2008

Rockstar VS Media Molecule In DIEA (News)

Jun 6, 2009

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.

Beijing 2008 - Nastia Liukin interview (Video)

Aug 20, 2008

As you might guess, Beijing 2008 is a large collection of Olympic competition minigames. It's a fairly good value but may not be worth the high risk of hand injuries.

Athletes talk gaming as Beijing 2008 game hits shops (News)

Aug 11, 2008

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."

Five games the Beijing Olympics will make old-schoolers want to play (Feature)

Aug 11, 2008

We were watching the Beijing Olympics at the weekend and got to nattering about how there's hardly any excitement around event-based sporting games anymore. Predictably the conversation took a rose-tinted turn towards the nostalgic and we all traded happy tales of masochistic joystick waggling and multi-load cassettes. No doubt other gamers with a memory for the shit old days will do the same. Here's five games that we reckon will fondle the memories of most old-schoolers at some point during the Olympics ...

Beijing 2008 (Screenshots)

Aug 8, 2008

Beijing 2008 (Review)

Jul 8, 2008

First, a cautionary note. Beijing 2008 requires some form of protection for your hands. Our right hand is cut to shreds; this despite using various aids, including cartoon plasters, a thick promotional T-shirt lying around the office, and a comedy sponge hand. None of those prevented a seeping welt from appearing on our palm, soon to be joined by a pair of blisters and, most irritatingly, cuts on the skin at the base of our ...

Beijing 2008 - Making of (Video)

Jul 7, 2008

As you might guess, Beijing 2008 is a large collection of Olympic competition minigames. It's a fairly good value but may not be worth the high risk of hand injuries.

Sega confirms new dates for Hulk, Beijing PC and PictoImage (News)

Jun 25, 2008

VG247: Just got some new dates from Sega PR. And here they are.

* The Hulk PC Â¿ public street date is now June 27
* The Hulk Wii Â¿ public street date now July 4
* The Hulk PS2 - public street date is now July 11
* Beijing 2008 PC Â¿ public street date is now July
* PictoImage DS Â¿ public street date is Sept 5

Beijing 2008 (Preview)

Apr 4, 2008

Sega snapped up the license to print mon... er, develop a game based on… well, a load of Olympic events, plainly. Beijing 2008 is set to feature no less than 35 events, including (deep breath, and in almost alphabetical order) diving, swimming, archery, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, handball, field hockey, Judo, pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, table tennis, ...

Beijing 2008 snubs Nintendo (News)

Jan 14, 2008

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 Â¿ but not the Wii or the DS."

SEGA Announces Beijing 2008 Deal (News)

Jan 10, 2008

Sega has given the first detail of its partnership with International Sports Multimedia to create official games of the Beijing 2008 Olympics.