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Another Wii Channel Coming Sometime Soon

By James Higginbotham • Nintendo News

Along with out earlier post about the New Wii Channel “Wii VC Gift” channel. Comes another Wii Channel announcement, the Wii TV program schedule channel. Players can download a guide …
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Golden Joystiq Award Winners

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Gears Of War Honoured As The ’02 Ultimate Game Of The Year’ At 25th Annual Golden Joystick Awards

GAMERS ROCK OUT AS GUITAR HERO II SCOOPS TWO GONGS

Microsoft’s breakthrough title, Gears of War has been honoured as the ‘O2 Ultimate Game of the Year’ at today’s 25th annual Golden Joystick Awards, which took place at the prestigious Hilton Hotel on London’s Park Lane.

Developed by Epic Games, Gears of War offered gamers a unique blend of tactical action and survival horror and was this year’s big winner scooping a massive four awards in total including ‘The Sonopress Xbox Game of the Year’, the ‘Nuts All-Nighter Award’ as voted for by Nuts readers and the prestigious ‘Editors’ Choice’ award. In the 25th anniversary year of the UK’s longest-established and most popular games awards, it was the diverse range of pioneering software that grabbed the attention of UK gamers as nearly 750,000 votes were cast, up on last year’s 540,000 votes.

Guitar Hero II and Nintendo were the ceremony’s other notable winners each receiving two awards each. Played with a special guitar controller, Guitar Hero II was honoured in both ‘BBC 1Xtra’s Soundtrack of the Year’ category and ‘bliss magazine’s Girls’ Choice Award’. Nintendo triumphed as the ‘Publisher of the Year’ while their ultra successful Wii console scooped the ‘T3 Innovation Award’, gazumping Sony’s Playstation 3 console, which was last year’s winner of the ‘One To Watch’ award.