Xbox

This Looks Like Worst (And Yet Best) Game On Kinect

You might watch this trailer for Michael Phelps: Push the Limit on Kinect and wince. At the awful acting, the uncomfortable hand gestures, at the sight of a man in speedos bending over more than once.

You might then, and this is entirely reasonable, decide never to watch it again. But then you’d be missing out.


February 3, 2011
Xbox

Can Kinect Make You Swim Like Michael Phelps?

505 Games has teamed up with Olympic superstar Michael Phelps to create Michael Phelps – Push the Limit, “one of the most realistic and intense sports simulation video games ever.” Is it time to flood your living room?


March 12, 2009
In Real Life

Michael Phelps Lists His Three Favourite NES Games, Asks For Yours

When Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is not winning gold medals, he is doing other things. Those recreational activities include playing video games among other things to help him chill out.


February 12, 2009
News

Activision: No Plans To Drop Phelps, A-Rod From Guitar Hero Ads

Now that Alex Rodriguez has admitted to being a juicer and Michael Phelps has been caught sucking on a bong, will Activision yank its Guitar Hero World Tour ad spots featuring the two? Nope!


December 30, 2008
Uncategorized

Michael Phelps’ Game To Be The Next Tiger Woods Game

505 Games is creating a game based on Olympic swimmer extraodinaire Michael Phelps, but can swimming carry a video game? Probably not. That’s where the pure action comes in.


December 16, 2008
Uncategorized

Michael Phelps Teams With 505 For Some Sort Of Swimming Game

505 Games has just announced a partnership with Olympic uber-swimmer Michael Phelps to develop video games for “next generation” consoles and the i-Phone, padding the sadly neglected swimming category of sports games.


December 4, 2008
Uncategorized

Michael Phelps Says His Game Is ‘In Development’

Michael Phelps is both the winningest swimmer ever, and chummy enough with Activision to be given a box containing no copies of Call of Duty. Surely he should have his own game by now?


September 5, 2008
Uncategorized

You (And Michael Phelps) Can Play Call Of Duty: World At War In November

Call of Duty’s heading back to the sepia-toned days of the Second World War, and it’s heading back there this Holiday season. Activision sent word today that the game will hit retail shelves across the US on November 11, around a month after the online betas kick off. That’ll be all versions of it, too. Say what you will of Treyarch’s track record, for a game that really should have “5″ after the title, it’s not looking too bad.


September 1, 2008
Uncategorized

Wait, Michael Phelps Didn’t Get Call Of Duty Early

On Thursday, you would have seen Michael Phelps, still basking in the glow of his olympic triumphs, presented with a copy of Call of Duty: World At War. A game that’s months from completion. Turns out Phelps didn’t receive the game at all; what he got instead was a box of lies. An Activision PR rep has confirmed that Phelps was presented with an empty box and a promise that, when the full game’s, you know, actually finished, he can have a copy. Who knows where this exciting new trend – of giving celebrities things that don’t yet exist – will lead us. Michael Phelps Didn’t Really Get New ‘Call Of Duty’ Early [MTV]


August 29, 2008
Uncategorized

Michael Phelps Has CoD: World At War And You Don’t

So what do you need to do to score a copy of Call of Duty: World at War from Activision two months early? Simple. Just dominate a sporting event on the global stage, bringing home a record-breaking 8 gold medals from the Olympics, and that baby is yours. This is a video from CBS’s The Early Show, which shows U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, otherwise known as The Seahorse, receiving a copy of the game for the PlayStation 3 at the end of the segment. Perhaps by the time the game comes out in November he’ll actually have time to play it.

Michael Phelps — Couch Potato! [The Early Show - Thanks Levi Harman!]