Saturday, June 19, 2010

“Basketball Kids' Camp returns next week” plus 1 more

“Basketball Kids' Camp returns next week” plus 1 more

Basketball Kids' Camp returns next week

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 06:22 AM PDT

The annual Basketball Kids' Camp will be offered this summer for third- through eighth-grade students in the Boone High School gymnasium, located at 500 7th Street.

Basketball Kids' Camp will be held June 22-25 from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. There is a cost for all campers to participate. All campers will receive a free T-shirt and the camp will feature competitions, games and instruction from Boone High School coaches and players.

Need-based scholarships are available upon request. Registration forms have been handed out in the Boone Community School District and extra forms are available from Coach Jerry Hales at Boone Middle School.

For more information or to obatain a camp registration form, contact Jerry Hales by calling (515)231-0643 or by e-mail at jhales@boone.k12.ia.us.

 




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Canadian games get top marks at international show

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:39 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES — Canadian games played well this week during the world's biggest video game trade show.

Made-in-Canada games were a big draw at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in downtown L.A. — from the futuristic, dimly lit booth featuring the upcoming title from Vancouver's Propaganda Games based on the Disney movie Tron: Evolution to the massive movie-theatre screen in game publisher Square Enix's well-attended booth showing Eidos Montreal's Deus Ex.

Canadian made games were some of the most featured titles at the show, which draws top journalists from all over the world, giving video game companies a chance to show off their upcoming games and hardware.

The three-day show ended Thursday.

One of E3's biggest hits, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, was made by Ubisoft Montreal. The game won several best of show awards handed out by judges from some of gaming's biggest specialized news sources.

Yannis Mallet, CEO of Ubisoft Montreal, said some of the nominations were presented to the company at its large show floor booth only hours after the show doors opened Tuesday.

"When you get an award or a nomination two hours after the show opened, it means something," he told Canwest News Service, proudly showing off the award badges displayed on a wall of the Ubisoft booth.

Mallat called the positive reaction to the third instalment of Assassin's Creed, a historical action adventure video game about a group of assassins who battle the Templar knights, "justification" for all the hard work.

Meanwhile, Eidos Montreal was privately showing a snippet of its upcoming — and long-awaited — third entry into the Deus Ex franchise, a futuristic action role-playing game set in 2027. All appointments were booked.

As media piled in to a small viewing room to watch footage from Deus Ex Thursday afternoon, one person exclaimed: "I've been waiting for this game for years." The most recent entry into the franchise was released in 2003.

The game's artistic director, Jonathan Jacques-Belletete, said after the viewing that the game has received praise "way above expectations. We've worked really hard on this."

If there's one genre that Canadian video game developers dominated at E3, it was exercise games. Ubisoft Montreal's Your Shape debuted during the Xbox 360 news conference on Monday as Xbox showed off its upcoming controller-free hardware, called Kinect. Your Shape was designed specifically for Kinect. The game was a tremendous draw at both the Xbox booth and the Ubisoft booth.

EA Sports in Burnaby, B.C., meanwhile, announced the sequel to its EA Sports Active game, which will be available for Nintendo Wii, and will expand for the first time to the Xbox and PlayStation consoles, as it's compatible with Kinect and PlayStation's upcoming Move motion-controller.

Also, Disney used E3 to show off newly announced Club Penguin Game Day for the Wii.

Club Penguin, a computer-based online game that lets kids customize an in-game penguin and interact and play games, was created in Kelowna, B.C., and bought by Disney in 2007. The game is the franchise's video game console debut.

During the show, Michael Jackson's kids stopped in at the booth and specifically asked to play Club Penguin.

Todd Pimentel, a spokesman with Disney Online Studios, helped staff the booth where Club Penguin was shown at the trade show.

He said the game was receiving a lot of positive feedback from players. Four mini games were available to try at the booth, including bobsledding, sumo, sack racing and a beanbag toss.

"All of the games on the Wii are exclusive only to the Wii platform," he said.

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