This is the award every publisher wants to win, the Ultimate Game The Year award. If you pick this one up, you've made a really good game. In the nominations were giants such as Fallout 3, Call of Duty World at War, Left 4 Dead, Grand Theft Auto, IV and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. See - them's some big guns.
Android handset the HTC Hero has won phone of the year and gadget of the year at T3 magazine's annual awards ceremony.
Now here is some good news for Call of Duty: World at War fans, the developers Treyarch will be introducing Double XP only during the Labor Day Weekend. So you can earn double XP from Septemeber 3rd to September 8th, 2009.
VG247: Activision's Mike Griffin has said that the Call of Duty franchise has sold close to 14 million units in the series lifetime.
The figures, compiled by GfK Chart-Track, show family-oriented and educational games have become the most popular with the UK public. With combined sales volumes of 1.65 million units, Nintendo's Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario Kart Wii titles equate to 72% of the top five 'best sellers' chart. The period also saw total sales of Nintendo's Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training surpass the three million units mark to become the UK's most popular game ever.
Callofduty.com writes: "To celebrate Independence Day here in the US (aka July 4th) we have decided to run Double-XP next weekend. It will begin July 3rd @ 10:00AM PST, and end July 6th @ 10:00AM PST. This will be for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PC and of course this Double-XP is available worldwide!"
Split-screen: "Meet Lanai Gara aka Fidget. She's from Oregon, 5'8?, naturally brown and once played Counterstrike for 21 hours straight. The NES got her hooked on gaming, her favourite title being Duck Hunt. Call of Duty 4 became her main addiction in 2007 and with COD World at War, she decided to take her skills further. She became #5 in the world on the Beta in FFA. With the game's release, she quickly shot to #1 in the world before becoming a Frag Doll at E3 2009. During this period, she also co-founded Team V Gaming (the 'V' corresponding to her previous handle - Ms. Vixen), a 120-person strong team."
Last week marked the release of the Call of Duty: World at War DLC, Map Pack 2; following the stellar performance of Map Pack 1, which has sold over 2 Million units!