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Deus Ex Lead Designer Honored With Game Developer Lifetime Achievement Award

Mike Fahey — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST

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With nearly 30 years in game development and a career spent crafting unique gaming experiences like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, Warren Spector has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. More »

PETA Praises Adult Swim Flash Games For Being Animal Friendly

Mike Fahey — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:40:00 EST

While Adult Swim's flash games aren't known for classy content, two have been singled out by animal rights group PETA for being especially animal friendly. Humans killing polar bears is bad, but polar bears killing humans wins awards. More »

Celebrating Blizzard's Cultural Legacy

Mike Fahey — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:40:00 EDT

Blizzard co-founders Mike Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham were honored this week as Artistic Visionaries as part of Orange County's 11th annual Cultural Legacy Awards. Photo by Nicholas Koon. More »

We Have A Hostage Situation

Mike Fahey — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EDT

When Sony accidentally sent Activision's trophy for 1.5 million manufactured units of Modern Warfare 2 to Ubisoft, the situation quickly got out of control. Will Activision come up with the brownies before it's too late? - Thanks, Anonymous Kidnapper! More »

Capcom's Flock! Claims Major Award

Owen Good — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:40:00 EST

Scotland's Proper Games took home honors at for BAFTA Scotland, claiming the first award in the board's games category for Flock!, the downloadable title published by Capcom this spring. More »

Mario Kart & Wii Fit Get ELSPA Diamond Awards

Stuart Houghton — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:40:00 EST

Hey, guess what platform exclusive games have sold over a million copies in the UK recently? Why, it's Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit, of course. More »

Miyamoto Receiving 2009 ESA Champion Award

Mike Fahey — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:40:00 EDT

It's almost time for this years "Nite To Unite for Kids" dinner, the ESA Foundation's annual fund raising event for children's charities. The event honors members of the industry who have made a great impact on the lives of children with the ESA Champion Award, with past recipients including George Lucas, Dan DeMatteo of GameStop, Nintendo's Howard Lincoln, ad Sony's Ken Kutaragi. Fixing a grave oversight, this year's recipient is the "Walt Disney of electronic gaming", Shigeru Miyamoto. More »

AIAS Award Winners To Get Recognition At...

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:40:00 EST

AIAS Award Winners To Get Recognition At GameStops. Last night's winners at the 11th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards will not only get a sales boost from those who caught the awards online, they'll also get a kick in the sales pants from shoppers at GameStop. AIAS president Joseph Olin told DICE attendees today that the academy has partnered with the retailer to add special mention to games like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Rock Band, Assassin's Creed and others with a sticker calling out each game's win. That means you'll see yet another sticker on display cases at GameStop and EBgames across the country, promoting each title's "Game of the Year" status. More »

Nintendo Two-Time Emmy Award Winner

torif — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:08:14 EST

What do Johnny Carson, Kelsey Grammer, and Nintendo all have in common? Why, they're all multi-Emmy Award winners, of course! At the Technological & Engineering Emmy Awards in Vegas on January 7, Nintendo was awarded its second Emmy for "excellence in engineering creativity". The award took into account the Wii's motion-sensor capabilities, as well as the touch and dual-screen display of the Nintendo DS. Nintendo won the Emmy last year for its plus-shaped D-pad, and reps from Nintendo say that the award recognizes the innovative direction Nintendo is heading, with more ingenuity planned for 2008 in the form of the Wii Fit board and the Wii Wheel for the upcoming Mario Kart. Congrats Nintendo! More »

Advent Children Named Best Anime Feature

Brian Crecente — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:57:26 EST

I watched Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children shortly after it hit DVD and I have to say, while there were parts of it I enjoyed, overall I felt the experience was disjointed. More »

Wii and Wario Win at Toy Fair

Mike Fahey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:40:37 EST

The jury is in for the 2007 ToyAwards that will be presented at the opening ceremonies of the International Toy Fair in N rnberg Germany tomorrow, and Nintendo Europe will be taking home an award for the 1-2 punch of the Wii and Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, with judges citing the appeal for new age groups and encouragement of group play as major factors in their decision. More »

Nintendo Honors Ageless Americans

Mike Fahey — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:40:35 EST

Nintendo has chosen 100 Americans between the ages of 54 to 104 to receive their 'Ageless Award', which honors the type of people who don't let age get in their way, like teenagers with fake I.D.s, only older. People like Rubin G. of New York, a 54 year-old professional racquetball player, or Waldo M. of Kansas, a 104 year-old beekeeper and author. Each of the 100 winners are receiving

a DS Lite and a copy of Brain Age.

Scrubs Star To Present Wright With Hollywood Award

Brian Crecente — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:00:17 EST

Word on the street has it that Sims addict and Scrubs star Zach Braff will be presenting Will Wright his Vanguard award from the Producers Guild of America this year. More »

Microsoft Got An Emmy, Nintendo Got An Emmy, Sony Got Another...

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:22:49 EST

You here for yesterday's daisy chain of a clusterfuck? What. A. Mess. Now that we've got Sony's ~~SIXAXIS~~ DUAL SHOCK Emmy straightened out, time to shine the spotlight on other winners the National Television Academy honored. Microsoft picked up an Emmy for "Pioneering Work in Near and Real-Time Fully Programmable Shading Via Modern Graphics Processors" for its DirectX technology. Also, Nintendo snagged an Emmy for the D-pad in the "Peripheral Development and Technological Impact of Video Game Controllers" category, and Sony's Xross Media Bar was awarded another for "Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of Personal Media Display and Presentation Technology" (boys, let's shorten this category names 'kay?). So Microsoft got an Emmy, Nintendo got one and Sony bagged two. What, they now giving these things out at the airport? Brian Ashcraft More »

Will Wright Honored and Honored

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:26:40 EDT

Will Wright is slated to receive the first ever Hall of Fame award from the Association of Electronic Interactive Marketers (acronyms boys, acronyms). He will also be speaking at the AEIM's (much better) M16 Conference next month in San Fran. Said President & CEO of MI6 and AEIM Jim Chabin: More »

Microsoft Gives MVP Award To Japanese Site

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:22:11 EDT

Microsoft's website says, "Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are recognized, credible and accessible individuals with expertise in one or more Microsoft who actively participate in online and offline communities to share their knowledge and expertise with other Microsoft customers." The company recently gave the award to the excellent Japanese site XNEWS. The site's manager said that in this four years he's managed the site, this was a happy moment. The site continually provides a consistant stream of Xbox news for the country's hardcore followers and definitely deserves this recognition. Congrats! More »

Poll: Awards Ceremony for Gaming

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:23:42 EST

Now that the Oscars have stormed through Hollywood, we are left with more pressing questions like why was Tom Hanks dropping f-bombs and will gaming get its own Oscar-like ceremony? More »

Nintendo World Store Wins Awards

Brian Crecente — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:00:19 EST

The Nintendo World Store won two awards from the Annual Institute of Store Planners/Visual Merchandising and Store Design. More »