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Tom Clancy is a man who can pride himself on spinning a taut tale of political intrigue from real-world international tensions. With Rainbow Six he brought his incredibly accurate, technically correct style for writing about military, paramilitary and espionage groups to video games. Reversing that trend, books based on various… Continue Reading »

With sports fanatics watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics to cheer their favorite teams, gamers can partake in the games via the Beijing 2008 Olympics Video Game for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. Released on July 8, 2008, for $49.99, the official game of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games… Continue Reading »

Title: Beijing 2008 (aka Beijing Olympics 2008, Beijing 2008 Olympics, Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics) Price: $49.99 ($29.99 as PC Download) System(s): *Xbox 360, PS3, PC/Download (Mobile) Release Date: July 8, 2008 Publisher (Developer): Sega (Eurocom) ESRB Rating: “Everyone” Pros: Includes a lot of events and character graphics are rather impressive.… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: Beijing 2008 Olympics screen shots

With all this coverage of the Olympics, both on television and online, I have seen several sources that have stated that Japanese Olympic swimmer Kosuke Kitajima, after he had won the gold meal for the men’s 100 meter breaststroke, had some very interesting, very videogame-related things to say: See, Mario… Continue Reading »

The start of the 2008 Olympic games in Bejing is just days away and the videogame industry is capitalizing on the event as expected. Game publisher Ghostlight brings us one of the first 2008 Olympics-inspired game on handhelds called International Athletics. International Athletics is not directly connected to the 2008… Continue Reading »

French game publisher Ubisoft already has a strong presence in Asia with two of its 17 internal development studios housed in China. Now it has opted for Singapore as the location for its new internal development studio. The publisher plans to gradually increase the staff strength at the studio, which… Continue Reading »

It is no secret that Facebook has sold out, capitalizing on it’s success to try and make more money. (Not many more features though. Of course it already is enough like Myspace as it is.) A new kind of vendor is placing ads on Facebook for the first time though.… Continue Reading »

A city in northern China is using a video game as a way of training their police force in anti-terrorist tactics. In the port city of Tianjin, about 300 police officers gathered at an Internet cafe for participating in a three day Counter Strike tournament in order to hone their… Continue Reading »

CMP Media, responsible for organizing the Game Developers Conference each year, has been busy adapting to the changing global climate of game development.  Just this week, two new events have been announced: GDC China and PC GameOn. Taking its show to the Far East, CMP Media will hold the first… Continue Reading »