The results are in, and the annual 2008 PlayStation Awards out of Japan is now a wrap. The handing out of awards commemorates successful titles over the past year. It highlights the best of the best and honors titles that have sold more than 500,000 units with a Gold Award, and those which sold over a million with a Platinum Award.
Unfortunately, only one PS3 title made this year’s list. That being, of course, Metal Gear Solid 4 with a Gold Award. With most of the other major PS3-exclusives releasing in late Autumn, we’re not really surprised by this.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are pleased to announce that LEGO Batman: The Videogame has won a prestigious Children’s BAFTA Award for Best Videogame Electronic Theatre Image2008.
Developer TT Games was snapped up by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in 2007 and has since had a hugely successful 2008 seeing the release of LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman: The Videogame.
Thousands of gaming fans left a virtual world to unite in the real one and test an update of their obsession. By day they are human, but in their spare time they become mythical heroes such as wizards, dwarfs and blood-elves. At the weekend, in California, 15,000 of them logged out of World of Warcraft, the world’s biggest online game, to gather in a hall the size of an aircraft hangar for the “big nerdfest” that is Blizzcon.
They were drawn to the Anaheim Convention Centre in California by their love of the virtual worlds they inhabit. Blizzcon is part video game carnival, part trade fair and part religious pilgrimage, organised by Blizzard Entertainment, which makes World of Warcraft and the real-time strategy game Starcraft.
New titles for new platforms on show at B2B event in Lyon
Anticipation for next month’s popular Game Connection Lyon event is building – and the organisers have offered up a glimpse at what attendees and fellow exhibitors will see at the event.
Connection Events says that the event "will welcome dozens of companies at the forefront of the new development trends for new target audiences on all platforms" – that’s next-gen formats as well as iPhone, they say, while those exploring or looking to take advantage of new business models will also be in attendance.
The 13th annual Tokyo Game Show opened at Makuhari Messe just outside of Tokyo Thursday morning with a record number of game titles on display from a record number of exhibitors.
Visitors to the show, which are expected to total around 180,000 people by the end of its four-day run, have the chance but likely not the time to see 879 games on display. A total of 209 exhibitors from 14 countries are at the show, which is the largest computer gaming event in Asia. The Tokyo Game Show is one of the big three global gaming events alongside the E3 show in the U.S. and the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany.
