Capcom Christmas Community Day

On Saturday 10th December we’re throwing open the doors and giving you the chance to play some of the up coming games from next year’s line up including Street Fighter x Tekken, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Asura’s Wrath!

More info here
When? Noon to 5pm, Satudday 10th December 2011
Where? The City Arts & Music Project, 70 – 74 City Rd, London, EC1Y 2BJ
How much? Free! (Register on the Capcom forums and then PM the UK community manager Fonix)

Richard Garriott – Tales of Fantasy and the Final Frontier

Richard’s passion for exploration has taken him from underwater explorations of the Titanic, to hunting meteors in Antarctica, each adventure giving him new stories to tell but also firmly rooted in exploring the significant science that can come from these activities. His life long dream to explore space drove him to create new ventures to make it possible, such as the X-Prize and Space Adventures Ltd. In 2008 Richard realized a lifelong dream by visiting the International Space Station.

More info here
When? 6:30PM, 14 December 2011
Where? ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS
How much? Free! (But you have to book in advance)

Hear tracks from LA Noire performed live

Jazz FM will host a special evening at historic Grade II listed Cobden Private Club on Friday 2nd December with a unique performance by The Real Tuesday Weld, the musical minds behind songs sung by character Elsa Lichtman in the game and performed by real life German singer Claudia Brucken; (I Always Kill) The Things I Love, Guilty and Torched Song.

More info here
When? 9pm – 1am, 2nd December 2011
Where? Cobden Club, 170 Kensal Road, London, W10 5BN
How much? £10. (Buy tickets)

Also as a thank you to all the beta players, you can get an exclusive in-game emote (/throat) when you activate your PlayNC account with a retail code.

For pre-order customers there is a special Halloween Event from Weds 31st Oct 07 – Thurs 1st Nov 07. During this time you get the opportunity to collect (and keep) up to 9 special masks.

You can still join the beta here if you want to see what all the fuss is about. You must be quick as the servers get wiped on the 27th Oct 07!

Steps to get a beta key this time:

• First Register for Eurogamers. You can do this here.
• Then go to the beta keys page here.
• Now visit PlayNC to set up your account (or add to your existing PlayNC acount).
• Finally, download and install Tabula Rasa (warning – it’s a 3Gb download).

Closed beta play session times:

• Monday and Wednesday, 5:00pm-2:00am BST (British Summer Time).
• Friday 5:00pm-Monday 2:00am BST (British Summer Time).

NOTE: This current beta ends on the 5th Sept 2007.

Steps to get a beta key (3514 left at 11pm 8th Aug 07):

• First Register for Eurogamers. You can do this here.
• Then go to the beta keys page here.
• Now visit PlayNC to set up your account (or add to your existing PlayNC acount).
• Finally, download and install Tabula Rasa – 2841.08Mb.

There’s a couple of further bits of information about these keys. They are for the European servers and you can only play at the following times:

• Session #1 Wed 8th Aug 17:00 – 02:00 (BST)
• Session #2 Fri-Sun 10-12th Aug 17:00 – 00:00 (BST)
• Session #3 Mon 13th Aug 17:00 – 02:00 (BST)
• Session #4 Wed 15th Aug 17:00 – 02:00 (BST)
• Session #5 Fri-Sun 17-19th Aug 17:00 – 00:00 (BST)

See you all online, as I’ve got my beta key. Yay.

Update 9th Aug 07: Still 3187 keys available at 10am this morning. I won’t be playing this until the next available session on Friday. The initial download is quick enough (on my broadband anyway), but then 1st patch download kicks in and takes an age to finish. Boo.

Update 10th Aug 07: 2121 beta keys now remain.