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.

Demo: Beijing 2008: The Official Video Game of the Olympics (News)

Sep 2, 2008

Console Monster writes: "A demo for Beijing 2008 is now available to download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. The free demo is available in all Xbox Live Regions and the dashboard text is as follows:

[ESRB: E (Everyone)] Embrace the competitive spirit of the world's most prestigious sporting event, represent your country and bring home the gold, Beijing 2008 delivers an entertaining and immersive Olympic experience. The superior graphics capture the fine emotional detail of all 38 events where a fraction of a second becomes the difference between winning and losing. Innovative game mechanics challenge a player's time, speed and co-ordination. Compete for glory with up to seven friends online while you strive to break records and lead your country to victory..."

Games to cure your Olympic hangover (Feature)

Aug 29, 2008

The Olympic games have been over for a week now and you may feel like it's left a big space in your life. In fact, it's now a bit weird to turn on the TV and not see someone rowing or running (or crying). But don't worry – you don't have to wait until 2012 to fill that void again. Why, you can do it all again with the wonder of gaming! ...

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 ...

8 ways to play Beijing Olympics 2008 (Feature)

Aug 8, 2008

Today marks the start of the 2008 Olympic games. And in order to spur on our Olympic heroes, while at the same time trying to fool our brains into thinking that we’re actually doing some exercise, we’ve tried and tested eight different ways of playing Beijing 2008. Some of which will be familiar, others definitely won’t be. But are any of them better than the good old jumper trick? ...

Beijing 2008 - 8 ways to play Beijing Olympics 2008 (Video)

Aug 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.

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.

Beijing 2008's Gymnastic Events (News)

Jul 1, 2008

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.

Beijing 2008 (Screenshots)

Jul 1, 2008

U.S. Cover Athletes On Beijing 2008 Game (News)

Apr 15, 2008

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."

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.