Beijing is the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics, and China has revamped many of the venues from the 2008 Games for the 2022 competitions – here’s how organizers did it. The ...

After years of fierce lobbying and months of secrecy, Beijing unveiled five mascots for the 2008 Olympics on Friday, opening a marketing blitz that is expected to reap record profits. In an elaborate, ...

Fireworks light up the sky over the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's nest, at the start of the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing on August 24, 2008. Photo: Franck ...

The death of Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympic mascot designer Wu Guanying, aged 67, has been reported in Beijing. Chinese state media recorded the cause of his passing as "an infection with a ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's hard to believe it has been four years since the last Olympic Games. It seems like only yesterday we were plonked on the couch, feet up, and ...

A man wearing a mask and coat walks past a building bearing the Olympics logo Beijing is about to become the first city to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics. But much has changed between ...

The 2008 Beijing Olympics showcased China's reemergence on the world stage. In awarding those Games to China, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Olympics could improve human rights, and ...

Beijing 2008 also includes table tennis, judo, weightlifting, skeet shooting, and canoeing. Though the game deserves a medal for diversity, a lot of these contests are hobbled by confounding control ...

A set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games were unveiled in Beijing on November 11, exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony. The long-anticipated mascots, which embody the ...

Beijing 2008: Sports game. Developer: Eurocom; Publisher: Sega. For Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. $29.99-$49.99. ESRB Rating: Everyone. Over the past few decades, some truly god-awful Olympics-themed video ...

ceremony at the iconic "Bird's Nest" stadium, watched by an estimated one billion people worldwide, and it certainly wasn't the only unprecedented spectacle on display during these spectacular Games.

Who knew qualifying for the Olympics could be so difficult? Instead of a worldwide competition crafted around ideas that fit in with the modern gaming landscape, this is just an archaic compilation of ...