The real Olympics come to videogames — again
There’s been a heightened interest in Olympics games over the last 12 months, with many mascots getting in on the action. The highly amusing Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (subject of GGL’s Up All Night 2) is just one example.
It should come as no surprise, then, that there’s also a realistic Olympics game in the work. Behold: Beijing 2008!
GGL’s Digital Games is a worldwide online tournament that will have its Global Finals held as part of the Our Olympic Organizing Committee’s welcome events hosted by the China Government. Ladder play is underway for DG, and you can register by visiting dg.ggl.com.
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4 comments to “The real Olympics come to videogames — again”
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10. July 2008 at 4:43 pm :
*again? Give it a rest. Digital Games* is not part of the official olympic games. It is also excluding the professional gaming community from participating by not providing prizes which any REAL competitive tournament has. The Digital Games are going to be filled with lots of noobs and mediocre players.
10. July 2008 at 5:27 pm :
if you grew up in the competitive gaming community you would know that some of the best tournaments had no prizes. say what you will about how dg is progressing; i’ll agree that there are some problems, but calling the tournament a failure based on lack of prizing is not fair to us (organizers) or the people playing.
there are many reasons to participate in the ladders, such as getting practice for other tournaments as well, which is what you’re seeing on a few of the ladders right now.
10. July 2008 at 6:12 pm :
I have grown up in the competitive gaming community. - While I respect your opinion about no prizes tournaments being good, I’m going to have to disagree with it. My definition of good is referring to the top players of a game duking it out in some epic matches. *practice for other tournaments”? - I agree, that is a good point. I think my calling the DG a failure is only applicable because of how it is constructed. If the DG were just a competitive tournament mainly just “for fun games” than it wouldn’t be a failure at all. It’s how the DG has been defined and described as something that it is clearly NOT that gives me the basis to call it a failure. Example: DG is an olympic format held tournament where the top players in the world in their respective games will be competing.- When GGL uses that definition, the DG can be labeled as a failure because it has failed to attract 95% of the top players in ANY of the games DG has. If you want to describe DG as a bunch of average players getting together and just having fun then I’d have no right to call GGL a failure. Anyway - besides my criticism - from what I’ve seen, you have done an excellent job running the website and the admins have done a good job referring the games. It’s nothing against you admins personally. It’s more of a fight against dishonest labeling by the GGL corporation.
11. July 2008 at 12:39 pm :
Ill keep my clan playing, i dont care if we are noobs or no… We are curious about what ggl will do with only brazilians playing cod4 PC 5×5 ladder. :)