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. More »
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? More »
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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]
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!]
