Nintendo’s Wii continues to show its dominance. It’s not in sales this time, but in the 2007 BritishAcademy Video Games Awards, where the Wii Sports title received a staggering seven nominations, two more than its nearest competitors. The game has players participate in several virtualsports, and has proved to be particularily popular with the growing casual gamer segment of the market – as have many Wii titles. It was nominated in the Game of the Tear and Innovationcategories, among others. God of War 2, Crackdown, Okami, and Gears of War each walked away with five nominations. The British Academy, which puts on the BAFTA film and televisionawards each year, gives awards in 15 different categories, including The Fellowship, which is given by nomination, but bestowed for outstanding achievement and body of work. According to a statement,the Academy “is now committed to the development of the contemporary art form of video games, and to lending equal weight to its British Academy Video Games Awards as that given to film andtelevision.” The 2007 awards will take place on October 23 in London.
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Wii Sports Gets BAFTA Nominations
The Digital Living Room: What?s coming from Microsoft
Now, this is something you typically don’t get from Apple: a vision of what the company plans to enable in the future. This is because Microsoft has a massive number of hardware partners they need to convince to get behind their initiatives, while all Apple needs to do is have Steve Jobs say “jump,” and Apple hardware says “how high”. But the result is that Microsoft can touch many more things much more quickly than Apple, or any other existing single vendor, which means they actually have more say on what the future may hold.
Epson Offering Class On Digital Photography
From Epson’s press release:
Advanced amateur photographers and photo enthusiasts across the country will soon have two new programs in which they can learn from the pros how to use the latest digital technology to create the highest quality prints. Based on the success of last year’s program, Epson is offering the Epson Print Academy 2004 traveling school, as well as adding the Online Experience, a new web-based course to provide even more educational opportunities.
