Announce-gamesoc February 2007

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[Announce-gamesoc] Smash Bros. Tournament and Lab Gaming this week

by DCU Games Soc

Hi all, Thanks to everyone who came to last week's events and made Games Week a success, hope you all enjoyed seeing the PS3. The Super Smash Bros. Tournament will be on Wednesday from 2pm this week in the Seminar Room. There'll be free food and prizes and stuff... also, there won't be any entry fee. We'll also have a few other consoles set up for anyone who's not interested. Lab Gaming is on in C204 as usual from 6pm on Thursday. For those of you playing in the Dawn of War Campaign, there have been a few updates so keep an eye on the forums for the latest on that one. Kevin Secretary, DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie

17 years, 8 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Smash Bros. tournament, Retro Gaming, DoW and stuff

by DCU Games Soc

Hey, Just a quick mail with a few notices and reminders. There were a few people unable to attend yesterday's Super Smash Bros. tournament due to a few problems with scheduling and a little misinformation. We've +decided to re-run the tournament next week to accommodate those of you couldn't play, so it'll be on next Wednesday at Console Gaming, with more prizes and +stuff. Retro Gaming is on this Wednesday at 2 and we'd like as many of you as possible to bring along consoles and TVs again. It should be more packed than last time +so we'll need all the equipment we can get our hands on. Xbox Live Centre trip is also on that day, so anyone interested can talk to us at Retro, or post to the forums. Dawn of War Campaign kicks off this Thursday and it will also be played at Lab Gaming. A few of you haven't collected your hoodies and we'd like if you'd come in and get them. We have several people waiting for more, so if you don't collect them they'll be given to someone else in a few weeks. Enjoy the week, Kevin Secretary, DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie

17 years, 8 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Games Week!

by DCU Games Society

Hey folks, Welcome to Games Week! This year marks Games Socs first involvement in this week and boy do we have a great line-up of events! * Monday - Super Smash Bros. Tournament * Tuesday - Playstation 3 Demo and Talk - Playstation 3, Wii and XBox360 Console Event * Wednesday - Guest Speakers From The Games Industry - Retro Gaming Event #2 - XBox Live Gaming Centre Trip * Thursday - Lab Gaming -Monday- Monday sees our first Super Smash Bros. Tournament ever being run on campus. The event takes place in the Seminar Room at 12pm and features some great prizes for the winners. Weve already had significant interest in this event so come early to ensure you get a place. -Tuesday- Tuesday sees us bring the Playstation 3 to DCU as we host a talk by Neil Costigan, a senior researcher working on the console in the area of Cryptography. The talk will be at 12pm in the Seminar Room and will encompass his work with the machine as well as his thoughts on the consoles inner workings. But this is the Games Society and we do, after all, like our games, so Neil will also be showing us what the console is really capable of with demonstrations of the likes of Warhawk, Call Of Duty 3 and Full Auto 2. Following this talk well be running our Console Event which will again feature the Playstation 3 except this time you guys will be able to have a hands on test of the machine. We'll also have a Nintendo Wii and XBox 360 for you guys so you'll finally be able to see which console is the current champ! -Wednesday- Wednesday sees us hosting more talks, this time based on the Games Industry in general. The first will be given by Aphra Kerr, a DCU graduate, researcher and author of The Business and Culture of Digital Games: Gamework and Gameplay. Ms. Kerr will be giving a talk on the design, development and marketing of games as well as her involvement in the Irish games development community site, gamedevelopers.ie The second talk will be given by Mal Duffin, Director of CanDo Interactive, one of Irelands leading solutions providers for interactive 3D content ranging from the educational to the entertainment based. The talk will also include an introduction to Blender, the free 3D application and game engine. These talks start at 12pm in the Seminar Room and refreshments will be provided throughout. The talks will be followed by our second Retro Event of the year in the Old Bar starting at 2pm. Whether youre a Nintendo or Sega fan, in love with Mario or Sonic or yearn for a return of the Dreamcast well have something for you. Lastly on Wednesday we have our second trip to the Xbox Live Gaming Centre in town. Places are once again limited so book early on the Events thread on the forums to ensure your place. Tickets will cost 10 and the event will be running from 7pm to 12pm. Well be leaving The Hub at 6:30pm so if you want to grab a bus with us be there before then, otherwise well see you in the Centre on South William St! -Thursday- Our final event of the week will be on Thursday as we run our weekly Lab Gaming session. For Games Week we have a special surprise, however, as we add Dawn Of War to our list of games available for play. The event kicks off at 6pm as usual in C204 in the Henry Gratten. Hope to see you guys there! As you can see from the posters up around campus STOCS and Poker are also getting involved but Ill let them tell you about their events. The full schedule for the week can be found here, http://games.dcu.ie/gamesweek and hopefully there's something for all of you guys to enjoy. Hope to see you around! Regards, Simon Kilroy Chair, DCU Games Society

17 years, 8 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Pro Evo 6 Tournament and Rag Week!

by DCU Games Soc

Hey guys, Games Soc will be out in force for this year's Rag Week to raise money for charity, here's what's happening: * Monday - Pacman and Blinky collecting money for charity around DCU. * Tuesday - Pro Evolution 6 Tournament with lots of prizes! * Wednesday - Pacman and Blinky in Celebrity Wedding and Console Gaming. * Thursday - Kat Farrell bungee jumping for charity and Lab Gaming. -Monday- Pacman and Blinky will be touring the DCU campus on Monday looking for money for charity, so if you see them make sure to donate. There'll be a few Games Soc badges on offer to those too! -Tuesday- Games Soc's Pro Evolution Soccer 6 Tournament aims to find out who is DCU's best Pro Evo player really is. It could be me. We'll have people from the Xbox Live Centre out so the Seminar Room will be full of Xbox 360s. There will be an excellent range of prizes. The game's sponsors, Reebok, will be bringing out footballs, jerseys, hoodies and lots of Pro Evo Gear. There'll be copies of the game and even a 5.1 Surround Sound system up for grabs. Signups start at 12 in the Seminar Room and the competition should be starting at 1. Entry is 3 euro for members, and 5 euro for non members. Everyone can play, so tell your friends. Remember, the whole event is completely for charity, ALL entry fees and ALL money raised are going straight to the chosen Rag Week charities, so even if you're not a fan of football games you should come along. -Wednesday- Clubs and Socs Day 2, so we'll be setting up a stand in the Hub for any new members who want to join for 2 euro. Console Gaming starts at 2 as usual in the Seminar Room. Also on Wednesday is the Celebrity Wedding show event thing, which for some reason is featuring Pacman and Blinky! It certainly sounds quite silly, but it's all for charity so it should be a laugh anyway, it starts at 2. -Thursday- Finally, on Thursday, Games Soc's own Kat Farrell is going to Bungee Jump for charity. Jumps start at 12, so make sure you stop by and donate some cash. These mails appear to be getting longer every week... make sure to read the one next week, as it contains details about... Games Week! Kevin, Secretary, DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie

17 years, 9 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Welcome back! EGM, Console Gaming, Drinks in The Big Tree, Lab Gaming...

by DCU Games Soc

Hey all, Welcome back to college, hope the exams went well for you all. If not, then I'll probably be seeing you in August! - Console Gaming + EGM on Wednesday - Society get together in the Big Tree, also on Wednesday - Lab Gaming on Thursday - Rag Week Console Gaming is back on at 2 in the Seminar Room this Wednesday, but beforehand we'll be having an EGM to vote in our new constitution and (providing the constitution is voted in) to elect someone to the position of Ordinary Member. This is a new position being added to the Games Soc Committee to help us cope with the additional workload we have due to the major expansion of the soc this year. Any current member can run for the position but one of the main responsibilities will be helping out with the running of lab gaming, so experience with game servers and linux is advised. The Ordinary Member may also get to wear the Pac-Man costume. The EGM starts just before Console Gaming at 1.30 so you might as well come and vote and stuff. Hoodies will be there for collection, so the... ten of you (I counted) that haven't picked them up yet can do so then. We're having a back to college get together later on that night too. We'll be heading to the Big Tree for a few drinks at around 9 and if you'd like to join us then you're more than welcome! Lab Gaming starts again this Thursday at 6 in C204. As most of you will be aware, next week is Rag Week in DCU and to do our part for charity we'll be running a huge Pro Evolution 6 Tournament for the entire college, with ALL of the proceeds going to charity. There'll be some excellent prizes on offer too. More details on this next week. So ummm, that's all. Hope to see you guys around during the week and good luck with Semester 2. As always keep an eye on the website and the forums for more info. Kevin Secretary, DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie

17 years, 9 months

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