Tag: Shigeru Miyamoto
Poll: BAFTA Video Games Awards – Who should win Best Game?
2009 was a stellar year for games, and just a quick look at this year's nominees for the Best Game at the BAFTA Video Game Awards will show you why. Assassin's Creed II, Batman: Arkham Asylum, FIFA 10, Call…
BAFTA Video Games Awards – Live Coverage from 6pm GMT
The annual BAFTA Video Games Awards take place at the Park Lane Hilton in London tonight, and Tech Digest will have live coverage from the event, as well as a run down on all the winners and losers. Follow all…
Wii creator Shigeru Miyamoto honoured with top place in Time Magazine's Top 100
Voters who participated in Time Magazine’s recent ‘100 Most Influential People of 2008’ list obviously felt the same way as I did, with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto crowned the year’s most influential.
Following him at number two and three are Rain and Stephen Colbert (you can view Colbert’s dance-off with the Korean popstar here), with the next notable technology luminaries being Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at 18, ‘The Google Guys’ at number 20, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates in at 27th spot…
Eavesdrop on a conversation between the Nintendo President and a Ninty designer
The next best thing to actually having a conversation with the head of Nintendo must be being a fly on the wall, listening to a conversation between the Nintendo Prez Satoru Iwata and Shigesato Itoi (Japanese writer and designer of Nintendo’s Mother RPGs), as they discuss Ninty, and Shigeru Miyamoto in full detail.
Thanks to Itoi, we don’t need to buy expensive spy-microphones to make that dream a reality, as he’s only gone and published the whole conversation on his website! Yup, in English – either he’s brilliant…
Top games designer calls for joyful games
Top designer at Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto, has said that the video game industry's reputation has suffered over the past decade, and has called for game developers to deliver titles that bring joy to the widest possible spectrum of players. "I…
