Relive the Olympics on the iPhone, iPod Touch
FROM APPLETELL - Miss the Olympics already? Don’t worry. With your iPhone or iPod touch, you can play curling, snowboarding, hockey and ski jumping apps 365 days a year.
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Boozle free for iPhone, iPod Touch during Olympics
Celebrating Adam Malysz’s silver medal in Men’s Ski Jumping, Polish developer Vivid Game’s Boozle is “free as long as the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics last” (according to a press release sent February 19, 2010). The 2010 Winter Olympics taking place in Vancouver, Canada, will officially end February 28, 2010. Boozle… Continue Reading »
8 sports games to prepare you for the 2010 Winter Olympics
The XXI Winter Olympic Games start February 12, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start getting ready for them today! Chances are, you aren’t going to be able to make it to Canada for the events, and you most likely aren’t competing, but that doesn’t… Continue Reading »
Shaun White Snowboarding sequel in the works? Not so fast, says Ubisoft
Despite the questionable reception of Shaun White’s initial video game snowboarding venture, he has already expressed confidence in working on a sequel. According to Reuters, “The Flying Tomato” made it clear that the knowledge that he gained with completing his first snowboarding video game will only ensure success with his… Continue Reading »
Olympic Video Games: The not so wonderful world of sports
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 »
Gamertell Review: Beijing 2008 for Xbox 360
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 »
Register now for the OGPlanet Olympics
OGPlanet.com is going to be fashionably late with it’s free-to-play MMO’s Olympic celebrations. Rather than running its games’ Olympic events at the same time as the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, it is going to be holding events in Albatross18, Cabal Online and Rumble Fighter from September 4 to 14, 2008.… Continue Reading »
Olympic gold medalist Kosuke Kitajima thanks Mario for victory
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 »
Join the Project Powder open beta and enter the 2008 Outspark Games
Outspark’s free-to-play, massive multiplayer online snowboarding gameProject Powder is now in open beta. Take heart, if you were denied entry to the closed beta, for your time has now come. Of course not all the functions are up and running (the ranking feature doesn’t work yet), but they will be… Continue Reading »
Mabinogi celebrates the 2008 Olympics with pandas
In order to celebrate the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Nexon has added a new pet to Mabinogi - the panda. Rather than just making the panda pet the only way to commemorate the occasion, Nexon is also holding two panda and Olympic related events in the game from August 7-28,… Continue Reading »
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