Get your votes in for the Golden Joystick 2008 awards
Posted by Graham. Filed under Europe, G, Multi-platform, News. Tagged with Awards.
The short list is out for the Golden Joystick 2008 awards, so get your votes in now!
There are a load of random catagories, named after various different media publications, including top UK magazines and newspapers.
The Golden Joysticks truly are the people’s gaming awards. Now in their glorious twenty sixth year, the Joysticks are also the oldest gaming awards ceremony in the world and the most prestigious – voted for by the only people who truly matter - gamers themselves.
Of course Sega has made it into the short list for quite a few (unfortunately not all) of the catagories. But now it is up to all of us to make sure they see some success this year!
I have set out the categories, and the games which Sega has been nominated for. But I have to be honest, each category has some serious competition for Sega’s titles, such as; GTA IV, Zelda, Halo 3, Guitar Hero, Mario Kart and Mario Galaxy (plus many more).
So check after the break for the listing and more details.
Virtua Tennis 3 gets nominated for a Spike Video Game Award
Posted by George. Filed under Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3. Tagged with Awards, Virtua Tennis.
Well, here I was thinking that Virtua Fighter 5 and Universe at War: Earth Assault would be bringing in all the awards. Seems that the people running Spike’s Video Game Awards took notice of Virtua Tennis 3.
The game is nominated under ‘individual sports game’, competing against Skate, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, and Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground. I think we all know that Skate will take the award.
When I first looked at the list of nominees, I scrolled down to find a ‘best fighting game’ category, but there wasn’t one, though there was ‘best military game’ and ‘best rhythm game’ categories.
Though, I think this is too early for a ‘best game of the year’ awards since theres still more then a month left, meaning they’ll miss out on games like NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.
[Via TeamXbox]
Sega prove they really are football champions… and not just when making games
Posted by Graham. Filed under Europe, G, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3. Tagged with Awards.
Two of Sega-Europe’s team, have shown that Sega know how to play football (soccer) games, just as well as they can make them.
The glory came, when Dwayne Buck and Aaron Francis, (both from Sega-Europe), teamed up to take on other pairs, from the gaming industry, at a game of Pro Evolution Soccer.
The ‘PES Industry Cup’, (in association with MCV and sponsored by Play.com and Cobra Beer), had 32 two-player teams battling it out. The pair defeated Codemasters’ development duo, James Firth and Craig Duncan, in a “tense” final. But the contest did not only have teams from the gaming industry, it also featured some names from the world of football media, (commentators, presenters etc…), though, to be honest, with my limited football knowledge, I hadn’t really heard of any of them.
[Source: MCV]
Virtua Fighter 5 gets Game Critics Award
Posted by George. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged with Awards, E3, Universe at War, Virtua Fighter 5.
Game Critics Award has been giving out awards since 1998. Yep, back in the day when us Sega Nerds were importing games on our Sega Saturn and swearing Dreamcast would be the next sure thing.
I’m sorta surprised that Virtua Fighter 5 got best fighting game, since its just a port. I would like to say, before we get all the Nintendo fans saying that Super Smash Bros deserved the award. Super Smash bros was not nominated. The game only had to face off against Smack Down! vs Raw 2008 and the 30th Naruto game announced this year.
The only other game that was nominated was Universe at War: Earth Assault, who lost against World in Conflict. Whats up with this similar sounding names?