Beijing 2008

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.

PS3 Fanboy writes: It's another catch-up week this week, as the US finally gets its hands on Civilization Revolution and Asia is given Dark Sector and Kane & Lynch (though probably wishes it wasn't.) Europe is barren this week and the only new release of the bunch probably won't appeal to many people, unless you really love your Olympics. Here's the full release list: US Games: Civilization Revolution Beijing Olympics 2008 EU Games: No new releases Asian Games: Dark Sector Kane & Lynch

Kotaku: Of all of the Olympic sports to video game translations, nothing suffers more than the gymnastic events. Sega is tackling six different gymnastic events in Beijing 2008, and while they might not give you an accurate feel for the sport they'll at least have interesting gameplay.

PS3 Fanboy writes: Good grief, where did all these games come from? There's a lot to choose from, especially if you're in the US or Europe. Despite the quantity, there's not a huge amount of overall quality. The only games in the list worth looking at are Overlord, Bourne and Battlefield. Don't be downhearted, Asians. You've finally got your hands on The Darkness. Only a year late, then. Here's the full release list: US Games * Battlefield: Bad Company * Top Spin 3 * Wall-E * Hellboy: Science of Evil * Overlord: Raising Hell * Hail to the Chimp EU Games * Battlefield: Bad Company * Beijing 2008: The Official Olympics Game * The Bourne Conspiracy * Guitar Hero: Aerosmith * Kung Fu Panda * NASCAR 09 Asian Games * Enemy Territory: Quake Wars * The Darkness

Kevin Parrish from from XboxFocus.com writes: We have to ask you this simple little question: do you really care? Still, to put you In The Know, a few U.S. gold metal contenders will have their mug shots smacked on the cover of Sega's upcoming game Beijing 2008 - The Official Video Game. As seen in the box shot, Amanda Beard, Tyson Gay, Nastia Liukin and Reese Hoffa will greet you with warm, sweaty smiles. Look for the game to hit the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the PC this summer.

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.