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Blazing Birds is a badminton-like action-sports video game developed by Vector 2 Games (now Silver Dollar Games) and published by Microsoft Games Studios. It was released on May 20, 2009, worldwide for the Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade).
Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, [a] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the expatriate officers of British India as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) [4] Its exact origin remains obscure.
Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
Lucinda Green's Equestrian Challenge is a 2006 sports video game by Australian developer IR Gurus Interactive and published by Red Mile Entertainment for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows. The game is named after Lucinda Green, a six-time Badminton Horse Trials winner, who also serves as in game mentor. [2]
Net and wall games, such as volleyball. Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce. Cue sports, such as pool and snooker. Target sports, such as golf and bowling. Hand and ball-striking games, such as various handball codes, rebound handball, and four square.
The 1972 Summer Olympics saw the inaugural staging of badminton, as a demonstration sport.Two decades later, after a successful exhibition at the 1988 games, the sport was officially introduced to the Olympics in 1989, and debuted in competition at the 1992 Games where 4 events were held, with singles and doubles events for both men and women.
The game was originally released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on July 24, 2019. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the game was not released outside of Japan and East Asia until June 2021, when it also released for Windows, Stadia, and Xbox One. The game features ...
Chirag Shetty (born 4 July 1997) is an Indian badminton player. [3] With his doubles partner Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, he is an Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and Asian Championships gold medalist.