Hi all,
Unfortunately we have to announce that the BYOPC LAN scheduled to take
place this weekend has been cancelled.
We apologise for giving such late notice of the cancellation but we have
literally been working up to this very minute attempting to resolve the
situation.
The reason for the cancellation is apparently that there has been a lack
of communication between the DCU Estates Office and DCU Security. It's
probably best not to delve into specific details of what caused the
issue here, but we can assure you that up until this morning we were
100% certain that the LAN would go ahead and had been given guarantees from
the Estates Office that this was the case. We've ran LANs on campus for
several years now and we would not have announced it and opened up
signups unless we were completely certain that the event would go ahead.
We have been screwed over.
Once again we'd like to apologise for the cancellation and the late
notice given. We hope to schedule another event of this nature in
Semester 2 to make up for this one.
Regards,
Kev
PRO, DCU Games Society
Hey guys,
This weekend GamesSoc will be running our first Bring Your Own PC LAN
event of the year! The LAN will run from 12pm this Saturday (Nov 29th) and
ends 12pm Sunday, a full 24 hours of gaming later with tournaments being
held in the following games:
- Call of Duty 4 (5v5)
- CounterStrike: Source (5v5)
- Unreal Tournament III (1v1)
- Dawn of War: Soulstorm (1v1)
There will be some really cool prizes up for grabs for the winners and
runners up of games, vouchers, gaming gear and lots more!
We'll also be playing tons of other games on the night such as Supreme
Commander, Call of Duty: World at War, Quake III, Company of Heroes, Red
Alert 3, C&C3, Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, ET: Quake
Wars, World in Conflict and lots lots more, so there'll be something for
everyone. Also for console gamers we will have a consoles area setup
throughout the event with our XBox 360's, Wii, PS3 and RockBand!
What you will need to bring:
- LAN Cable
- Power adaptor
- Headphones (no speakers allowed)
- PC
- Food!
Entrance fee to the event is €10 and things kick off 12pm Saturday
morning, don't forget to register at www.byopc.dcu.ie before the LAN if
you plan on attending, hope to see lots of you there!
Robby
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Chairperson, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey folks,
- Bring Your Own PC LAN
- Worms Tournament at Lab Gaming
- Ice Skating
- Traditional Gaming
- Console Gaming
- BYOPC LAN -
This weekend GamesSoc will be holding our biggest event of the semester,
our 24 hour Bring Your Own PC LAN! GamesSoc members will bring their PC's
to the Hub for 24 hours of gaming and some great prizes up for grabs with
tournaments running in the following games:
- Call of Duty 4 (5v5)
- CounterStrike: Source (5v5)
- Unreal Tournament III (1v1)
- RTS to be decided (1v1)
Teams can be made up on the night so don't worry if you don't have one! Of
course tournaments are only part of the night and there'll be tons of
other games played throughout the night! We'll also have our consoles
setup for console gamers throughout the night. The event kicks off
Saturday at 12pm and will end at 12pm Sunday (24 hours of gaming later!)
Entrance fee is 10euro and you can register at www.byopc.dcu.ie
- Worms Tournament at Lab Gaming -
This Thursday from 6pm at Lab Gaming, GamesSoc will be running will be
running an old school 2D Worms World Party tournament! We'll also be
playing lots of the usual games throughout the night and there will be
prizes of course for the winners! Lab Gaming starts at 6pm, in C204 in
the Henry Grattan Building.
- Ice Skating -
GamesSoc will be going ice skating at the RDS on the Thursday the 4th of
December from 4:10pm - 5:10pm and we have 20 FREE tickets to give away to
you lovely members! It's first come first served, so if you're interested
send a mail to gamessoc(a)redbrick.dcu.ie and we'll keep a ticket for you.
We'll arrange all leaving together as a group from the hub and then we can
fall flat on our asses on the ice as a group too! :D
- Traditional Gaming -
Continues tonight from 6pm in CG20, The Henry Grattan Building and
Wednesday from 6pm in the Seminar Room, in The Hub. We have a huge
collection of all your favourite board, card and roleplaying games! So
there's definitely something to suit everyone. Free refreshments will be
provided as usual both nights.
- Console Gaming -
After last weeks amazing Halo 3 Tournament, much congratulations to
winners Wogan, Divad and ChrisD btw, Console Gaming is back this week with
all the usual favourites. We'll have our PS3, Wii, XBox 360's and Rock
Band all out and will be providing a LOT of free refreshments! So make
sure you're at the Seminar Room, Wednesday from 2pm.
So it's a big one this week, lots going on during the week capped off by
our BYOPC LAN which always proves to be an amazing event. So we've got
your covered for gaming needs during the week and even the entire weekend,
the question is can you game that much? :)
Robby
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Chairperson, DCU GamesSoc
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey folks,
We can now officially announce that our first Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC)
LAN of the year will be held the weekend of November 29th/30th (next
Sat/Sun) in the Hub, in DCU. The event is a 24 hour overnight LAN party
with tournaments running in the following games:
-- Call of Duty 4 (5v5)
-- CounterStrike: Source (5v5)
-- Unreal Tournament III (1v1)
-- RTS to be decided (1v1)
Teams can be made up on the day if you don't have one and the winners and
runners up of every tournament will receive really cool prizes of games,
game vouchers and other cool gaming gear!
Of course aside from the tournaments, lots of other games will be played
throughout the night. Games such as Team Fortress 2, Supreme Commander,
Quake 3, C&C 3, ET:Quake Wars, Red Alert 3, Dawn of War, Battlefield 2,
Call of Duty: World at War, CS 1.6, World in Conflict, Left 4 Dead and
loads more will all make appearances!. We will also have a console area
setup with our XBox 360's, Wii, PS3 and RockBand if you feel like a break
from all the PC gaming that will be going on!
For everyone bringing a PC to the event you will need the following:
- LAN Cable
- Power Adapter
- Headphones (no speakers will be allowed)
- PC + Monitor
- Food!
So the LAN starts Saturday 12pm November 29th and ends Sunday 12pm
November 30th, Admission will be 10euro for members. You can register for
the event at www.byopc.dcu.ie on Monday, the site will be offline until
then.
Hope to see you all at the LAN which should be the highlight of the
semester and of GamesSoc's amazing year so far! So make sure to register
at byopc.dcu.ie on Monday!
Robby
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Chairperson, DCU GamesSoc
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey guys,
Warpcon is the annual gaming convention held in UCC (University College
Cork), to which Stocs/GamesSoc have made annual trips. It is awesome. You
should all go. It is being held on the 23rd-25th of January. Gamessoc will
be subsidising accomodation, hopefully it wont cost ye anything, but not
more than a fiver a head. Entry for the entire weekend will be covered,
and if you keep your bus reciepts you will get a portion of them back.
Warpcon is one of the largest cons in the country, and I would encourage
you all to come and drink/game with us.
As accomodation is snapped up fairly quickly, the last day for putting
your name down under Games Soc is the 1st of December. Due to issues we
have had with other conventions, and due to the relatively high cost to
Games Soc, I will require a deposit of €20 which will be returned on the
friday of the convention. As UCC have rather inconsiderately organised
this event in the last weekend of our exam period, anyone who pays a
deposit and then finds that they have exams in the period of Friday
23rd-30th of Jan (The end of the exam period) will have their deposit
refunded.Also, as some associate members have outstanding debts to the
society, Games Soc will not be booking places or organising tickets for
any associate until the funds are repayed in full.
Please post on the thread in the forums or email me at dennis.mccartney25
at mail.dcu.ie if you are want to go. If you require information about the
con, visit www.warpcon.com
Regards,
Dennis Mc Cartney
Games Soc Trips Officer
Hi all,
As you know Assassins was scheduled to start today. However, there was
a very low turnout at the meeting regarding this yesterday evening, so we are
pushing the game back til next week. Anyone who was not at the meeting on
Monday evening *must* attend a meeting at 6pm in CG06 this Thursday or
they will not be playing. We need to take photographs of each entrant and
check that an entry fee has been paid, so please make sure to attend.
Regards,
Dennis Mc Cartney
GamesSoc Trips Officer
Hey everyone,
This week we have our second consoles tournament which will be a Halo 3
Free For All! So get ready for some sick snipes and brilliant beat downs
on Wednesday! Oh and also coming up is our BYOPC LAN!
Congratulations to David Ó Laigheanáin, Chris Daly, Robin Cafolla, Ciaran
McDonald and Dennis McCartney who won our CounterStrike 1.6 tournament
last week and took home copies of Fable for PC and Microsoft Flight
Simulator each.
Halo 3 Tournament.
Assassins.
Traditional Gaming.
Lab Gaming.
Bring Your Own PC LAN.
Halo 3 Tournament-
This Wednesday GamesSoc will host our first Halo 3 tournament of the year!
This is Free-For-All competition and there'll be a two euro entrance fee.
Sign ups will begin at 1pm on Wednesday in the seminar room upstairs in
the hub and the tournament will kick off at 2pm. Free refreshments will be
provided for all entrants and there are some great prizes up for grabs, so
make you you all come along!
Assassins-
Will be kicking off this week with a meeting in the seminar room on Monday
at 6pm. If you plan on taking part in Assassins you must attend this
meeting as we will be explaining the rules and how the game will be
played. So make sure you're there on Monday! This is also your last chance
to sign up if you haven't already!
Traditional Gaming-
Traditional Gaming will be held in CG20 in Henry Grattan this Monday from
6pm and from 6pm in the Seminar Room upstairs in the hub on Wednesday. We
still have all your favourite RPG, Board, Card and War games so come along
and have some fun and enjoy the free refreshments that will be provided!
Lab Gaming-
Continues in C204 in Henry Grattan this Thursday evening from 6pm. We have
all your favourite games again this week like Counter-Strike 1.6, GTA2,
TrackMania, Day of Defeat, Total Annihilation and lots of other games so
do come along and have some fun.
Bring Your Own PC LAN-
Yep the time is almost upon us again! We're planning to run this semesters
24 hour BYOPC LAN on the weekend of November 29th to 30th, in The Hub.
This is still pending approval, but we wanted to give you all ample time
to get the weekend off and prepare for 24 hours of non-stop gaming! We'll
have more information about this event during the week!
If anyone has any suggestions for games to play just come to us in person,
PM us on the forums or just drop us a line at games(a)redbrick.dcu.ie and
we'll be more than happy to accommodate you.
We'll have plenty more events coming up in the next few weeks so I'll be
sure to keep you all posted. Hope to see you all throughout the week. Also
don't forget to check out our forums at http://games.dcu.ie/forums for
discussions about all your favourite games!
Gavin Tubritt, Secretary
DCU Games Society,
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey everyone,
Just a reminder of what's happening in GamesSoc this week. Some of you
have reading week this week but that doesn't stop GamesSoc and everyone is
more than welcome to come along to our events. I hope everyone had a great
night at the Clubs and Socs ball on Tuesday!
Consoles.
Lab Gaming Tournament.
Traditional Gaming.
Assassins.
Consoles-
Console Gaming will continue to run this week in the seminar room upstairs
in the hub from 2pm on Wednesday. We'll have all your favourite consoles
up and running with Rock Band, Halo 3, Soul Calibur 2 & 4 and many more.
Free refreshments will be provided so do come along and enjoy your
Wednesday afternoon.
Lab Gaming Tournament-
This week Lab Gaming will be holding the first PC tournament of the year!
Its Counter Strike 1.6. Should be a great tournament as past years have
proven and the standard will be high so everyone get your game faces on
and get yourself in with a chance to win some great prizes. Registration
will be starting at 6 in the usual lab C204 in Henry Grattan on Thursday
and the tournament will start pretty soon after, so make sure your there
on time! It will be a 5v5 tournament with teams organised on the day, so
dont worry if you don't have one!
Traditional Gaming-
Continues on Monday in CG20 from 6.30pm and Wednesday in the Seminar room
from 6pm. Refreshments will be provided for all so do come along and play
some of your favourite Board, Roleplaying, War and Card Games. There is
guaranteed to be something for everyone.
Assassins-
Assassins sign ups will continue this week at Traditional Gaming and
Console Gaming and this will be one of your last chances to register
before it gets under way.
If anyone has any queries or questions they would like to ask then don't
hesitate to ask us. And as before if you have any games suggestions for
any of our event we will be glad to accommodate you. And if you can't find
anyone don't hesitate to email us at games(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or PM us on the
forums.
Gavin Tubritt, Secretary,
DCU Games Society.
http://games.dcu.ie.
Hey guys, a few events happening this week in GamesSoc
Clubs and Socs Ball Tickets.
Assassins.
WarHammer 40K League.
Console Gaming
Traditional Gaming.
Lab Gaming.
Clubs and Socs Ball Tickets-
Right guys we have 3 tickets left for the ball. These will be on a first
come first serve basis and they will be available during Traditional
Gaming on Monday Night in CG20 in Henry Grattan. The price is 55 Euro so
if your still looking for a ticket come along!
Assassins-
Assassins sign ups will also take place at Traditional Gaming on Monday
night in CG20. We already have lots of signups so make sure to come along
and get in with a chance of winning some great prizes. Check out
http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2116.0 for more information.
This is a joint competition run in conjunction with AirSoc and will take
place over the coming weeks.
WarHammer 40K League-
GamesSoc are starting a 40k league throughout the coming weeks also so if
you are interested check out the forums at games.dcu.ie/forums and sign
yourself up. It's a team based league and will be run at our
Monday/Wednesday traditional gaming events over the next few weeks.
Console Gaming-
Console Gaming continues this week in the Seminar Room upstairs in the hub
from 2pm on Wednesday afternoon. We have all your favourite console
games out and there will be free refreshments for all. Games being played
include Halo 3, Rock Band, Soul Calibur IV or whatever takes your
fancy!
Traditional Gaming-
This will take place on Monday evening in Henry Grattan, room CG20 from
6pm and on Wednesday evening in the Seminar Room upstairs in the Hub from
6pm. So if you feel in the mood for some boards games, card games or war
games then come along and have some fun. Refreshments will be provided so
your not going to go hungry. :D
Lab Gaming-
Continues this week in C204 on Thursday night from 6pm in Henry Grattan.We
have Counter-Strike 1.6, GTA2, TrackMania, Day of Defeat, Total
Annihilation and lots of other games so make sure to join us there and get
to know some new people.
Also if anyone would like to purchase one of GmesSoc's mighty fine
embroidered hoodies we still have some in stock so make sure to ask a
committee member when you see them if you are interested. If we don't have
one in your size we will put your name on the next order we make.
Check out games.dcu.ie and the forums if you would like to know any more
about what's happening in GamesSoc. And we are happy to take suggestions
of any games you guys would like to have played at any of our weekly
events.
Thats all for this week, so make sure you come along to this weeks events
and have some fun.
Gavin Tubritt, Secretary
DCU GamesSoc,
http://games.dcu.ie
