Hi.
Another year is nearly over and now it's time for you guys to decide who you want running the society next year. All committee positions are up for grabs at our AGM, which takes place in the Seminar Room next Wednesday at 3pm.
The committee positions available are as follows:
-- Chairperson --
The society's leader, chairs committee meetings who is responsible for the overall structure of the society and oversees the running of events.
-- Secretary --
Schedules meetings, records minutes, notifies members of whatever's going on and helps out the Chair where required.
-- Treasurer --
Deals with the financial affairs of the Society.
-- PRO --
Promotes the society, advertises the events, does postering etc.
-- Webmaster --
Responsible for the running of the website and making sure it's up to date. Programming specialisation recommended but not required.
-- PC Ents --
In charge of any PC gaming events. Game Server/Linux experience is advisable, but not compulsory.
-- Console Ents --
Runs Games Soc's console gaming events.
-- Ordinary Member --
Assists the rest of the committee where necessary and helps out at events.
So, Seminar Room at 3pm next Wednesday. This is your chance to have a say in the running of Games Soc, so come out and do so next week. All members of the society who are currently DCU students are entitled to run for a position and vote.
If you have any questions about the positions or the AGM feel free to contact us.
Kevin
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.iehttp://interlan.dcu.ie
Hey guys,
- Halo 2 Team Tournament
- Interlan 3.0 update
- Lab Gaming
- Simon Kilroy for Pres!
This Wednesday from 2pm we'll be running our Halo 2 Team Tournament in the Seminar Room. We'll be having a few free for all rounds at the start to determine the teams and then we'll get started. Entry is free for all members and the place was packed during last year's one, so we hope to see guys there. We'll have plenty of food and stuff and if you have any spare pads or or consoles bring them along too.
We have some great news to announce regarding Interlan 3.0. We're getting sponsorship from MemoryC, which means that there's now a GeForce 8800 GTX card up for grabs for the best player overall. They're also giving us some MP3 players and hard drives for spot prizes, so there's a great chance that you'll win stuff just by turning up.
For more info check out: http://interlan.dcu.ie
Lab Gaming as usual is on from 6pm in C204
I'm sure you've all seen the Simon Kilroy posters around the college (I even saw one in the toilets earlier, it was kinda weird...). Yes, the esteemed Chairperson of the DCU Games Society, Mr. Simon Kilroy, is running for the position of Students' Union President! So... vote for him! We <3 Simon!
Anyway... come to our events and stuff.
Kevin,
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.iehttp://interlan.dcu.ie
Evenin' folks,
Registration is now open for InterLAN 3.0! Taking place in the Hub in DCU, and aimed at both console and PC gamers, this is going to be our biggest event of the year. InterLAN, as you may have guessed from the name, is an Intervarsity LAN gaming event, which basically means that people from every college in Ireland can come together to play games and find out which college is the best (it's DCU). DCU won several competitions at the last one, so we'll be hoping to repeat that success now that it's taking place on our own turf. We'll also have the Xbox Live Centre out with lots of flatscreen TV's and Xbox 360s for you to play.
Of course, it isn't just for those hoping to play in the tournaments, the lan is open to everyone, so you can come and play whatever games you want, or just... make use of the dedicated file server. :)
The competition games will be as follows:
-- PC --
Counter Strike 1.6
Counter Strike Source
Unreal Tournament 2004
Dawn of War
-- Console --
Gears of War
Halo 2
Project Gotham Racing 3
Dead or Alive 4
InterLAN 3.0 takes place in the Hub on April 7th and 8th. Doors open at 12pm and it finishes at 2pm the next day. Entry is 15 euro. It promises to be a truly great event, so we hope to see you all there.
Fore more info, check out the official website:
http://interlan.dcu.ie
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As for this week's events...
Console Gaming will be running at 3pm in the Seminar Room, but this week we hope to get a Mario Kart DS tournament going. Possibly the best Mario Kart game ever, it has the added bonus that you don't even need ta copy of the game to play it with your friends, just a DS. Even if you don't own a DS someone can give you a loan, so hopefully we can get a tournament going. Normal consoles will also be out too.
Lab Gaming as usual runs from 6pm in C204.
Enjoy your "Reading Week". If you're a business student, or one of those other groups that aren't in this week, know that I hate you. :)
Kevin,
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.iehttp://interlan.dcu.ie
Hey all,
Sorry about the late notice, but we've had to reschedule the two talks this afternoon.
The Havok talk will now be starting at 2pm, while the talk from Sean Blanchfield of Demonware will now take place at 3pm. Both of these will still be in the Seminar Room in the Hub and Console gaming will follow afterwards.
We'd also like to inform you all that Games Soc Chairperson Simon Kilroy will be taking part in the Bebo/Social Networking debate tonight at 6.30 in QG15, so come along and heckle him or something. There'll be free food and drink, too.
Kevin
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Welcome to Tech Week!
As part of Tech Week 2007, Games Soc are running quite a few events:
--Monday
1pm - PS3 Talk and Demo, the Seminar Room
3pm - Build your own PC workshop, the Seminar Room
--Tuesday
4pm - Photoshop Tutorial with our very own Alan O'Connor, C101
--Wednesday
12pm - Havok (Game Physics) talk, the Seminar Room
2pm - Demonware (Game Networking) talk, the Seminar Room
3pm - Console Gaming, the Seminar Room
--Thursday
6pm - Lab Gaming in C204
and in detail...
Monday!
Neil Costigan will be back with the PS3 to give another talk on the console and a demonstration too in the Seminar Room at 1pm.
Games Soc's illustrious Chairperson and all round nice guy, Mr. Simon Kilroy, will be in the Seminar Room afterwards at 3pm with our lovely Webmaster, John Doyle, to run a workshop on how to build your own PC. There'll be advice on what parts to pick and then a walkthrough on how to put it all together.
Tuesday!
Games Soc's own Alan O'Connor, designer of some of the best posters on campus, will be giving a tutorial on how to use Photoshop in C101 at 4pm.
Wednesday!
At 12pm in the Seminar Room, two Senior Developers from Havok, the world's leading providers of physics middleware for the games and movie industry give a talk on their areas of expertise. The topics of the talk are a "Rough Guide to Working in Havok", followed by "Physics in Computer Games", which should cover all areas involved in the business.
Following the Havok talk, at 2pm, Sean Blanchfield, Chief Technical Officer of Demonware, the world's leading provider of networking middleware for the games industry will be out in DCU. His talk will cover all the aspects of developing the company's technology used in leading titles such as Call Of Duty 3, Need for Speed and the Splinter Cell series.
Thursday!
Lab Gaming runs as usual at 6pm in C204 and the Dawn of War campaign continues.
A reasonable amount of events... hope to see you all at the talks and stuff. Enjoy Paddy's Day and all that too.
Kevin
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey guys,
Sorry about the late notice but unfortunately we've had to cancel Console Gaming today. This is due to booking conflicts with the Venue and the SU's continued use of the Seminar Room on Wednesdays.
Lab Gaming will run as usual tomorrow at 6pm in C204.
Kevin
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey,
Just the usual stuff on this week thankfully. Console Gaming will be in the Venue in the Hub again this Wednesday from 2pm and Lab Gaming starts at the usual of time of 6pm on Thursday in C204.
Week 6 will be Tech Week in DCU and Games Soc will be very much involved. There'll be a series of talks, including speakers from the games companies Havok and Demonware. Those of you who missed out on the PS3 will get another chance to see it in action and we'll be running a hardware tutorial for anyone interested in learning how to build a pc. There'll be more info on Tech Week in next week's mail, so ummmm.... read it. Also check the website!
Kevin
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
