The London Gaming Con takes place for this first time this weekend. Although there are tons of gaming tournaments, exhibits and events planned the highlight for me will be hearing CoLD SToRAGE – aka Tim Wright – performing live. Tim has been given the 1:30pm -2:30pm slot on Saturday. London Gaming Con Event Details: Date: 3rd-4th Dec 2011 Time: 11am [...]
BAFTA are continuing their stellar games events with one from the creator of puzzle adventure game Rolando. Simon Oliver, Founder and Game Director at HandCircus will talk about indie game development and his company’s experiences when developing Rolando for the iOS and upcoming game OKABU for the PlayStation 3. This event is part of a collaboration between the Institute for [...]
Christmas season is coming and it looks like gamers should have a great December (provided they live in or within easy travelling distance of London). Not only is there the NamcoBandai X Capcom Community Fight Club at Namco Station on 3rd December, there are loads of other games events coming up: Capcom Christmas Community Day On Saturday 10th December we’re [...]
The weekend before last, I was down in Plymouth for the Extended Play Festival 2011. Games developers, students and general industry hangers-on (like yours truly) gathered in the National Marine Aquarium over cocktails and coffees from Falmouth’s gamer-themed Loading bar to talk about game design, the business of gaming and, in some cases, make games. About a third of the [...]
This year’s Christmas fight club takes place on the 3rd Dec 2011 at Namco Station, London. The event will be free to attend with 2 sessions running from 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm each with a capacity of up to 300 people. Entry to each session will be on a strictly first come, first served basis. Simply turn [...]
In a top secret central London location from 7pm on Monday 7th Nov 2011 the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launch event takes place. Activision will be streaming everything live on their COD MW3 Launch YouTube page or you can watch it right here: Here’s the official teaser trailer for it: Will be tweeting pictures and news live from [...]
At this year’s Eurogamer I was moonlighting in the Indie Arcade section for Spilt Milk Studios. This allowed me a more unique view of what the expos are like for smaller independent developers. Located at the back of the hall near the developers Q&A rooms, the indie section drew a healthy crowd for most of the show. Andrew Smith, founder [...]
I was invited along to the Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony concert at the HMV Apollo last week. The London concert was to be the second and final performance of the short world tour. The excitement surrounding this concert was apparent the moment I arrived at Hammersmith with thousands upon thousands of fans, many dressed up as characters from the games [...]
It’s Halloween time in Guild Wars again. Festivities have been up and running since the 20th Oct and will run until 07:01 2nd Nov 2011. The format is the same as previous years with lots of Halloween themed missions, items and events going on across Guild Wars. Main attractions: Lion’s Arch, Kamadan, Droknar’s Forge and Tomb of the Primeval Kings [...]
A panel of games industry writers gathered together to discuss narrative in games, specifically the idea of character, how players interact with the characters and story, and all of the other factors which influence game narrative. The panelists were Rhianna Pratchett (Heavenly Sword, the Overlord series, Mirror’s Edge), Jim Swallow (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Killzone 2), Ed Stern (Brink, The [...]
Mozilla (creators of the Firefox web browser) run a yearly 3-day festival in London that brings together developers, journalists, educators, young people interested in media and many more. It’s a place to share ideas, invent and prototype solutions, create and educate each other about the tools to survive in the web-centric world. This year’s theme is Media, Freedom and The [...]
Are any of you burgeoning games writers? Perhaps you prefer to call yourselves aspiring narrative designers? Whatever the term, BAFTA will be catering for you on 26th October with a panel of very successful games writers. Killing our heroes! Putting protagonists in the hands of a player kills traditional narrative concepts. A panel of UK games writers examine how killers, [...]
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