Little Big Planet tops AIAS noms
In an effort to make it the ultimate gaming awards ceremony and to become the most prestigious gaming awards ceremony, the Academy of Interactive Arts WoW cataclysm Gold and Sciences announced in October it was incorporating its International Game Developers Association into its Interactive Achievement Awards selection process. Through the collaboration, the IGDA's 14,000 membership would be eligible to vote in"craft" categories of the IAAs "craft" category of IAAs.
We'll be in need of more Sackboys.
Today today, the AIAS revealed the first fruit of the collaboration, setting out the names of its nominees for the annual IAA Awards, which will be held on December 12th. Topping the list of this year's nods is Sony's PlayStation-exclusive Little Big Planet, which received critical praise from P2Pah upon its release in October. The AIAS has awarded the sandbox-based game 10 nominations in categories that range across Family Game of the Year to Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, to overall Game of the Year.
Little Big Planet will face fierce competition to win this award. AIAS' Game of the Year award. Other candidates for the award are Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3, Rockstar Games' WoW Cataclysm Classic as well as Valve's WoW Cataclysm Classic, and Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4. Other multiple-award winners comprise Epic's Gears of War 2 (9) and Valve's WoW Cataclysm Classic (8) as well as Bethesda's Fallout 3 (8), Konami's MGS4 (7) along with the Lionhead's Fable II (6).
They will be handed out in conjunction with the AIAS annual DICE Summit on February 19 at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Like he did at the IAAs last year the comic Jay Mohr will emcee the ceremony, the fourth time in a row to do it.
The most significant story to emerge from The NPD Group's December review of retail sales in the game industry across the US was the record-breaking sales of Nintendo's Wii and DS which sold a total of 3.6 million units in November. But yesterday also showed an increase in interest in handheld and console games. With a successful debut of the Microsoft's Gears of War 2 and Activision's WoW Cataclysm Classic, sales in this category increased by 11 percent from year to year.
The NPD Group segments off its desktop software sales from buy Cataclysm Classic Gold its handheld and console report, the amount doesn't take into account one of the biggest games of the year: Blizzard Entertainment's WoW Cataclysm Classic: Wrath of the Lich King. The week before, NPD also revealed sales ratings for PC games released in November and, unsurprisingly, Lich King and its collector's edition won the top and second slots.According to NPD analyst Anaita Frzier on the day, Wrath of the Lich King sold more than 1.4 million units in its first month. This is just one portion of the game's opening-day global numbers that Activision Blizzard pegged at 2.8 million within a few hours of the WOW expansion's launch. At the end of October, Blizzard tainment announced that its massively popular massively multiplayer online game had breached the 11-million-subscriber mark.
In an effort to make it the ultimate gaming awards ceremony and to become the most prestigious gaming awards ceremony, the Academy of Interactive Arts WoW cataclysm Gold and Sciences announced in October it was incorporating its International Game Developers Association into its Interactive Achievement Awards selection process. Through the collaboration, the IGDA's 14,000 membership would be eligible to vote in"craft" categories of the IAAs "craft" category of IAAs.
We'll be in need of more Sackboys.
Today today, the AIAS revealed the first fruit of the collaboration, setting out the names of its nominees for the annual IAA Awards, which will be held on December 12th. Topping the list of this year's nods is Sony's PlayStation-exclusive Little Big Planet, which received critical praise from P2Pah upon its release in October. The AIAS has awarded the sandbox-based game 10 nominations in categories that range across Family Game of the Year to Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, to overall Game of the Year.
Little Big Planet will face fierce competition to win this award. AIAS' Game of the Year award. Other candidates for the award are Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3, Rockstar Games' WoW Cataclysm Classic as well as Valve's WoW Cataclysm Classic, and Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4. Other multiple-award winners comprise Epic's Gears of War 2 (9) and Valve's WoW Cataclysm Classic (8) as well as Bethesda's Fallout 3 (8), Konami's MGS4 (7) along with the Lionhead's Fable II (6).
They will be handed out in conjunction with the AIAS annual DICE Summit on February 19 at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Like he did at the IAAs last year the comic Jay Mohr will emcee the ceremony, the fourth time in a row to do it.
The most significant story to emerge from The NPD Group's December review of retail sales in the game industry across the US was the record-breaking sales of Nintendo's Wii and DS which sold a total of 3.6 million units in November. But yesterday also showed an increase in interest in handheld and console games. With a successful debut of the Microsoft's Gears of War 2 and Activision's WoW Cataclysm Classic, sales in this category increased by 11 percent from year to year.
The NPD Group segments off its desktop software sales from buy Cataclysm Classic Gold its handheld and console report, the amount doesn't take into account one of the biggest games of the year: Blizzard Entertainment's WoW Cataclysm Classic: Wrath of the Lich King. The week before, NPD also revealed sales ratings for PC games released in November and, unsurprisingly, Lich King and its collector's edition won the top and second slots.According to NPD analyst Anaita Frzier on the day, Wrath of the Lich King sold more than 1.4 million units in its first month. This is just one portion of the game's opening-day global numbers that Activision Blizzard pegged at 2.8 million within a few hours of the WOW expansion's launch. At the end of October, Blizzard tainment announced that its massively popular massively multiplayer online game had breached the 11-million-subscriber mark.
Statistics: Posted by paleyShelie — Sat Aug 03, 2024 3:52 am