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BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA) annually hosted the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards for multimedia entertainment between 1998 and 2002. In 2003, BAFTA announced the award would be split into two separate ceremonies – BAFTA Interactive Awards and BAFTA Games Awards – to take place in February the following year. The 2004 ceremonies were held on 1 and 2 March 2005, after which the Interactive Awards were quietly retired, leaving only the Games Awards to return in October 2006. Ceremonies Accessibility :2002 : I-Map (website) :2001 : (not awarded) :2000 : (not awarded) :1999 : (not awarded) :1998 : (not awarded) Audio (awarded as 'Sound' pre-2002) :2002 : Luigi's Mansion (for GameCube) :2001 : Conker's Bad Fur Day (for Nintendo 64) :2000 : Theme Park World (for Windows) :1999 : Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 :1998 : Ceremony of Innocence Best UK Developer :2002 : (not awarded) :2001 : (not awarded) :2000 : BBC Online :1999 : (not awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
BAFTA Interactive Awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA Interactive Awards and British Academy Video Games Awards, BAFTA Games Awards were created in 2003 by splitting the original BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards into two separate ceremonies. While the previous ceremonies had been annually hosted each October since 1998, the 2003 Interactive Awards weren't held until 19 February of the following year, while the 2004 event took place on 2 March 2005. In March 2006, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA issued a press release announcing that "Video Games are as Important as Film and Television", and reinstated the Games Awards to the traditional October slot. No mention of Interactive Awards was made, and all traces of the ceremony vanished shortly afterwards when BAFTA's website was reorganised, making it the shortest running event in BAFTA's history.Winners & Nominees' - Archive of 2004 BAFTA Interactive Awards. Ceremonies Children's Learning :2004 Headline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rare (company)
Rare Limited is a British video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Twycross, Leicestershire. Rare's games span the platform, first-person shooter, action-adventure, fighting, and racing genres. Its most popular games include the '' Battletoads'', '' Donkey Kong'', and '' Banjo-Kazooie'' series, as well as games like '' GoldenEye 007'' (1997), '' Perfect Dark'' (2000), '' Conker's Bad Fur Day'' (2001), '' Viva Piñata'' (2006), and '' Sea of Thieves'' (2018). Tim and Chris Stamper, who also founded Ultimate Play the Game, established Rare in 1985. During its early years, Rare was backed by a generous budget from Nintendo, primarily concentrated on Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games. During this time, Rare created successful games such as '' Wizards & Warriors'' (1987), '' R.C. Pro-Am'' (1988), and '' Battletoads'' (1991). Rare became a prominent second-party developer for Nintendo, which came to own a large minority stake in the company, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gran Turismo (1997 Video Game)
is a 1997 sim racing video game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was directed by Kazunori Yamauchi and produced by Shuhei Yoshida. It is the first game in the ''Gran Turismo'' series. After five years of development time, ''Gran Turismo'' was well-received both commercially and critically, shipping a total of 10.85 million copies worldwide (making it the best-selling PlayStation game), and scoring an average of 95% in GameRankings' aggregate, making it the highest rated racing video game at the time of the site's closure in 2019. Many publications have deemed it one of the greatest video games of all time. The game has started a series, and has spawned over 10 spin-offs and sequels. Gameplay ''Gran Turismo'' is a racing game. The player must maneuver a car to compete against artificially intelligent drivers on various race tracks. The game uses two different modes: Arcade Mode and Simulation Mode (Gran Turismo Mode in PAL and Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aliens Versus Predator (video Game)
This is a chronological list of games in the '' Alien'', ''Predator'' and '' Alien vs. Predator'' science fiction horror franchises. There have been thirty-eight officially licensed video games, one trading card game, and one tabletop miniatures game released as tie-ins to the franchises. The first video game of the ''Alien'' franchise was released in 1982 for the Atari 2600, based on the 1979 film '' Alien''. Subsequent games were based on that film and its sequels ''Aliens'' (1986), ''Alien 3'' (1992), and ''Alien Resurrection'' (1997). The first video game in the ''Predator'' franchise was released in 1987, the same year as the ''Predator'' film on which it was based. Subsequent ''Predator'' games were based on that film and its sequels ''Predator 2'' (1990) and ''Predators'' (2010). The first game to cross the two franchises was ''Alien vs. Predator'', released in September 1993 and based on an earlier comic book series. Since then the characters and storylines of the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
MindGym
MindGym is a surreal game about creative thinking. It was produced as a CD-ROM in 1996 by London-based Melrose Film Productions and NoHo Digital and published by Macmillan (UK), Simon & Schuster (US) and Ravensburger (Germany). Development A client-driven project, Mindgym was conceived and produced by Adam Gee, while working at video training company Melrose to create an "interactive training product that would teach corporate middle-management about the value of ‘creative thinking’". He approached NoHo with the idea as the company had the capacity to make games Tim Wright of NoHo designed the project with a specific vision to utilise the talents of Rob Bevan as art director, Adam Gee as producer and script editor, Jason Loader as 3d animator and comedian, and Nigel Harris as sound designer. After a script and demo were created, NoHo teamed up with Macmillan, having proven that the concept could be funnier, bigger, and have a broader appeal. Reception Critical recepti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Immaterial Bodies ", a song by Sophie from ''Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides'' (2018)
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Immaterial may refer to: * The opposite of matter, material, materialism, or materialistic * Maya (illusion), a concept in all Indian religions, that all matter is a grand illusion * Incorporeality * Immaterialism, including subjective idealism (and other idealism/mentalism/spiritualism) * Immaterial financial matters, in accounting and auditing terms * ''Immaterial'' (collection), a 2002 short story collection by Robert Hood * Immaterial labor * It's Immaterial, British pop music band * "Immaterial Immaterial may refer to: * The opposite of matter, material, materialism, or materialistic * Maya (illusion), a concept in all Indian religions, that all matter is a grand illusion * Incorporeality * Immaterialism, including subjective idealism (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Frankie's Animal Adventures
Frankie's is a South African soft drink company based in Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal. It specialises in the production of niche soft drinks that have the same or similar taste to soft drinks from or before the 1950s. The company was established in 2006 by Mike and Paula Schmidt in Balgowan. Its largest markets in 2015 were the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Gauteng provinces of South Africa. In 2015 the South African dairy company Clover Clovers, also called trefoils, are plants of the genus ''Trifolium'' (), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae originating in Europe. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution with the highest diversit ... bought a 51 percent ownership stake in the company, renaming the business operation Clover Frankie's. Woolworths controversy In early 2012 the South African Advertising Standards Authority ruled that Woolworths’ vintage cold drink range was an imitation of Frankie’s soft drink range. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg ( ; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is the highest-grossing film director of all time. Several of Spielberg's works are considered among the greatest films in history, and some are among the highest-grossing films ever. Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. He moved to California and studied film in college. After directing several episodes for television, including '' Night Gallery'' and '' Columbo'', he directed the television film ''Duel'' (1971), which was approved by Barry Diller. He made his theatrical debut with '' The Sugarland Express'' (1974) and became a household name with the summer blockbuster ''Jaws'' (1975). He directed more escapist box office successes with '' Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' (1977), '' E.T. the Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lego
Lego (, ; ; stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. Lego consists of variously coloured interlocking plastic bricks made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) that accompany an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Its pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Assembled Lego models can be taken apart, and their pieces can be reused to create new constructions. The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Moulding is done in Denmark, Hungary, Mexico, and China. Brick decorations and packaging are done at plants in the former three countries and in the Czech Republic. Annual production of the bricks averages approximately 36 billion, or about 1140 elements per second. One of Europe's biggest companies, Lego is the largest to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tigger's Honey Hunt
''Tigger's Honey Hunt'' is a Platformer, platform game based on the ''Winnie the Pooh (franchise), Winnie the Pooh'' franchise that was released in 2000 for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation (console), PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. The game was developed by Doki Denki Studio for Disney Interactive Studios, Disney Interactive, which published the Windows version and co-released the game on home consoles through NewKidCo in North America, while the European release was published by Ubi Soft. The game was created as a tie-in for ''The Tigger Movie'', which released six months prior. A spiritual successor titled ''Pooh and Tigger's Hunny Safari'' was later released for the Game Boy Color, with different mini games but otherwise sharing much of the same story. Gameplay Gameplay in ''Tigger's Honey Hunt'' is divided between six 2.5D platformer style levels and three mini games, for a total of nine levels. Each platforming level contains 100 honey pots to collect, and Tigger must find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Disney
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, as an animation studio, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney, Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it later operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in the animation industry with the short film ''Steamboat Willie.'' The film used synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon. After becoming a success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. However, followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
