BAFTA 2012 Winners
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012The victors of the British Academy of Film and Television’s video game awards for 2012 have been officially unveiled. Portal 2 is the night’s biggest winner by a slim margin, earning 3 awards against Battlefield 3 and LittleBigPlanet 2‘s 2 each, but taking home a victory in some of the biggest categories. This year’s Special [...]
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Monday, June 6th, 2011Heads Up Display or HUD for short is a fast paced news show featuring everything you need to know about the gaming industry, and nothing more.
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011Wii 2 (Project Café), Supaboy the Portable NES, and Jade Empire 2?
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Monday, April 11th, 2011Ever since Christopher Tin’s “Baba Yetu” theme won this year’s “Best Instrumental Accompanying Vocals” GRAMMY award, rumors have been circulating that video games will be getting their own special category at next year’s ceremony. According to a report from IndustryGamers, that might be the entire case. But word from the Recording Academy isn’t all bad [...]
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Friday, March 18th, 2011The British Academy of Film and Television Arts held the 2011 GAME British Video Game Awards last night, with Mass Effect 2 nabbing the top prize. It is worth noting that Rockstar did not include its San Diego Studio’s western adventure Red Dead Redemption in the nominees, leaving it out of this year’s ceremony entirely. [...]
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011The week-long voting period has ended, and today Sony announced the winners to its 1st Annual Playstation Network Gamer’s Choice Award winners. The winners are receiving a 30% discount (50% for Playstation Plus subscribers) during the platform’s “Spring Fever” sales event, going on right now. For the full list of winners, follow the jump.
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Monday, March 7th, 2011The third day of last week’s Game Developers Conference was devoted to a two-part awards show, celebrating the best in indie (Independent Gaming Festival) and major (Game Developers Choice) releases. There were little surprises, with Minecraft and Red Dead Redemption effectively sweeping their respective awards shows with both the most nominations and the most wins. [...]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011In this first official episode of the Heads Up Display we take you through the recent news of the videogame industry.
5 CommentsVideo Games Win Their First Grammy
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011Christopher Tin has taken his place in video game – and music – history as his “Baba Yetu” theme for Civilization IV won this year’s “Best Instrumental Accompanying Vocals” Grammy. The theme is the first track recorded for a video game to achieve the honor, and while it was included in a 2005 release, it [...]
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Saturday, February 12th, 2011The 14th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards recently took place as part of the D.I.C.E. summit in Las Vegas. Hosted by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, both Read Dead Redemption and Mass Effect 2 walked away big with major victories. Rockstar’s wild west opus gained 5 total wins (including Action Game of the Year, [...]
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Monday, January 24th, 2011The 2011 Game Choice Awards have chosen to honor Lionhead Studios founder Peter Molyneux with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony, to be broadcast on Gamespot live at 6:30pm this March 2nd as part of the larger Game Developers Conference, will be emceed by returning host Tim Schafer. The award, according to the organizers [...]
Comments OffAIAS Awards Lifetime Acheivement to Bing Gordon
Friday, January 21st, 2011Bing Gordon may not be a name as hip to know as Tim Schafer or as popular to hate as Bobby Kotick, but the former Chief Creative Officer at Electronic Arts is important enough to be receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. Gordon is considered to have laid [...]
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Friday, January 14th, 2011The finalists for the Game Developers Choice Awards have been announced by organizers at this year’s conference. Both indie hits (Limbo, Minecraft) and the expected blockbusters (Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2) are represented with multiple nominations, with the winners decided by an invitation-only panel of experts – the International Choice Awards Network (or ICAN) [...]
1 CommentGrammys Announce First Video Game Nominee
Monday, December 6th, 2010The Grammy awards have long been a pop culture staple in the music industry, and this year the voting board has finally brought video games into the nominee list. Christopher Tin and Civilization IV‘s “Baba Yetu” has been nominated for the “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals”; the others in the category being Roger Treece’s “Baby”, [...]
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010This year’s Golden Joystick Awards broke voting records, with 1.54 million votes tallied over the 200 day voting period (a 26% increase from previous years). From over 4000 games, only a few series managed to net one of the ceremony’s coveted awards.You can find the list of winners, and partial list of the nominees, after [...]
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