Craig Nye writes:
''Back in the very early years of school, no one liked being picked last in P.E. Together with sitting at the front of the class, not having a Man Utd lunch box and girls with their 'cooties' it was something we all hoped to avoid. There was always a sense of inner failure at trudging to one side of a team because you were the last possible choice left. Athletics was one of many sports that glorified the fit and for most it was a sport you'd have to enjoy from a sidelined position, or in view of everyone else sprinting off into the distance for the wilfully determined and/or stupid. But even if you take no interest in athletics, it's impossible not to know of the Olympics be it through magazines, friends or even in the news for reasons that have nothing to do with sport at all, (as this year's event will attest).''
Amazon have released their video game deal of the day for Thursday.
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.
Wouldn't be surprised if Rockstar takes all their 6 nominations and brings home several prizes =)
Do you still suffer from Olympic fever? Are you constantly checking NBC looking for any glimpse of a balance beam, pool, or waving country flags? Fear not, Summer Athletics is here with your cure. Sure, you would think that an Olympic-styled game would just add fuel to the fire, but Summer Athletics is all but guaranteed to drown it, like Michael Phelps treats other Olympians' dreams.
If you remember the ancient Commodore 64 title, Summer Games, you know what to expect. The title is surprisingly similar, given the twenty-plus years between the two games. You have the option to play a single event, compete in a set of events (including a traditional decathlon), or build an athlete from scratch with career mode. The game gives you twenty-six events to play, in seven different categories. Save the lame career mode and a handful of additional events, it feels strikingly similar to the classic Commodore 64 title, except the older title actually plays better.
