February 2006


news and other sites and video games03 Feb 2006 08:27 am

kong game

King Kong the video game scored strongly and came in 8th during the critical holiday shopping month of December 2005. According to stats from gamedaily.com that were released today:

- The console versions of the game have been a critical success, garnering over 80% GameRankings.com.
- NPD has reported that the PS2 version of the game has sold 376,000 copies in just two months, with the Xbox pushing 180,000 units ( make sure to have an hdtv if you grab the xbox360 version ).
- In the U.K., the game has been in the top 5 best sellers for the past seven weeks according to the ELSPA.
- All told, the PS2, PSP, GCN, DS, PC, Mobile, Xbox and Xbox 360 versions have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.

news01 Feb 2006 08:25 am

King Kong has earned four Oscar nominations. The film was nominated for: Art Direction; Sound Editing; Sound Mixing; and, of course, Visual Effects.

The Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, March 5, 2006 and televised live by the ABC beginning at 8 p.m. EST. The all-important red carpet arrivals show will precede the actual Oscar presentation at 7 p.m.