To celebrate the launch of the Mafia II game (on PS3, PC and Xbox 360) 2K Games have organised a short pop-up barber shop tour at England’s most prominent shopping centres. The barber shop will look something like this: Anyone who visits the barber shop can get: Free professional hair cut (courtesy of America Crew)
[continue reading...]
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford is about to host what I think is the UK’s first flight simulator exhibition on the 4-5th September 2010. The Flight Sim 2010 show will take place in a spacious indoor exhibition hall within AirSpace, which will give visitors the perfect chance to hop next door to the Aircraft
[continue reading...]
Be amongst the first people to experience Microsoft’s Kinect in London’s Covent Garden. Book your place now.
How do non-gamers play? It’s a question that has puzzled me for a while. In a country where the main form of recreation involves throwing large volumes of toxic liquid down your throat and declaring “I can’t remember what happened. Must have been a GREAT NIGHT!”, I can’t help wondering how else people play. Sure there are places like Go Ape, which are great fun (unless you’re me) and certainly a type of play, but they’re an awful lot of hassle to organise. Not to mention expensive. And scary as shit. People read books and watch films for fun, but they’re very passive hobbies. I’m not sure that counts as play.
On Saturday I headed over to South Bank for the Hide and Seek Weekender. It was brilliant! I wasn’t there long but the atmosphere was outstanding and it was great to meet and have fun random new people. I ended up only signing up for one game, Segue which was run by Enterplay. The other
[continue reading...]
Real-time strategy fans, don’t forget the R.U.S.E. preview weekend which starts tomorrow and runs to 19th July. You can preload through Steam right now.
From Friday to Sunday, London’s Southbank will be transformed into a giant playground by Hide and Seek, a games studio working to invent new kinds of play. Here’s a basic summary of the plans, shamelessly lifted from the official site: Friday 6pm till 10pm: round-the-table games, spectator-friendly games, and one great big hundred-player chasing-across-the-Southbank game.
[continue reading...]
Are you aged 12 to 16 and thinking about video games? Dare ProtoPlay are running a video games studio workshop from 13th to 15th August. It will take you through how a video game is created, what technology is involved and let you create your own characters, as well as a small “piece of animated
[continue reading...]
Do you like Cosplay? Get yourself to the Cosplay Cruise in London on July 10th, 7pm to midnight. It’s on the Dixie Queen, which is pretty much the most awesome boat on the Thames and aims bring 500+ anime fans and cosplayers together. I’m not a cosplayer myself – most anime/JRPG or even any games
[continue reading...]
