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 ...

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 ...

After successfully hosting the Olympics in 2008, Beijing looks toward 2022. HONG KONG -- With the Pyeongchang Olympics behind us, the winter sports world now directs its attention to Beijing in 2022.

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 ...

For the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing advocated the idea of "One World, One Dream." However, the dream of the Chinese government is not the dream of everyone. In a vast social system long known for its ...

t's a long way off but 2008 will mark a new era for Beijing as an international city when the Olympics come to town. In the meanwhile, the city's publicity machine, a very aggressive one, will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Could it really be over so quickly? Ever since the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the Summer Games in 2001, China had lavished $44 billion on transforming the capital into a city ...

SEGA will be the publisher behind the official game of this year's Olympics, after they secured the official license from the International Olympic Committee. The online functionality of all of the ...

if we ever wonder where Elsa went, we'd guess she at least made an appearance in china and built a winter wonderland ahead of the winter. Olympics. Harbin ice city due to its cold weather has made the ...

Here in Beijing, Friday the 13th turned out to be China's lucky day. The government took the gamble of staging a celebratory concert in front of the city's millennium monument. And as Juan Antonio ...