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[Announce-gamesoc] Week 4: Gears of War 3 Tournament, Zombies Versus Humans & Casual Night

by gamessoc

Hey everybody, We're getting closer to the highly anticipated release of Dance Central 2! Also the greatest Batman game ever made is coming out. I guess that's good too. Anyway here's what's on this week: - Casual Gaming | Monday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan, C165 - - Gears of War 3 Tournament @ Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - - Traditional Gaming | Wednesday 6-10pm | Science Building, XG15 - - PC Gaming | Not on this week - - Clyde Night | Friday 8pm - But first a piece on a Zombies Vs Humans game for zombie week. Zombies Vs Humans is a campus wide game where students fend off a increasing hoard of zombies for the week. It'll take place on campus and will be completely free to play. It'll begin on Monday 24th where we'll be handing out the equipment you'll need and running over some basic rules. Main item you'll need is a weapon, that's either some form of Nerf gun or even balled up socks for defense against the hoard. I'll be sending out a more detailed email on rules later this week. If you're interested in playing just email us back. - Casual Gaming | Monday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan, C165 - This Monday at traditional gaming we'll be playing some of our more social games such as Cranium, Apples to Apples, Monopoly and maybe even a bit of Werewolves too. All are welcome to come along as always, especially our new members and freshers. If these games don't suit you then don't worry, well still be bringing along the classics like Risk, Paranoia and San Juan. See you there at 6pm in C165. - Gears of War 3 Tournament @ Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - We'll be running a Gears of War 3 tournament on Wednesday. These will be 2v2 wingman matches. You can sign up as pairs if you and a friend want to try or you can sign up solo and we'll pair you up. The entry is €4 per person and there'll be prizes for the winners. Sign ups start at 2pm and the tournament begins at 3pm. Of course if you're not interested in the tournament we'll still have some consoles set up on the day. - Traditional Gaming | Wednesday 6-10pm | Science Building, XG15 - If anybody has any requests for what games to bring this week post up what you'd like to see on the forum topic here: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2041.450 We have a list of our games here at boardgame geek: http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/DCUgamessoc - PC Gaming | Not on this week - Sorry. We're still waiting on the ISS to get the lab PCs imaged. - Clyde Night | Friday 8pm - Hop onto our teamspeak server at clyde.redbrick.dcu.ie and steam on Friday night and we'll be having a few matches of whatever people want to play. Our steam group is here if you want to be notified when clyde night starts http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamessoc That's all for this week, I'm off to to fling orcs into acid. Yours Deliciously Oisin "Master of Unlocking" Kelly DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie/

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Week 3: Pitfighting, Clyde & Consoles

by gamessoc

Hey Folks, Here's to a new week of brand new games and the steady decline of my bank account funds. Here's the rundown this week: - Traditional Gaming | Monday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan, C165 - - Clyde Night | Tuesday 8pm | Steam, Teamspeak - - Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - - Pathfinder Pitfighting | Wednesday 6-10pm | Science Building, XG15 - - PC Gaming | Not on this week - - Traditional Gaming | Monday 6-10pm | Henry Grattan, C165 - We'll be in room C165 in the Henry Grattan building from 6-10pm for traditional gaming. Here we play games like San Juan, Risk, Paranoia and Pit. Of course that's not all we have. We have a huge list of games here: http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/DCUgamessoc If you have any suggestions on what to bring just post here: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2041.450 - Clyde Night | Tuesday 8pm - For those who don't know what Clyde night is it's where we all meet up online and play a few PC games. We have a Teamspeak server where we usually meet up for this. The Teamspeak hostname is clyde.redbrick.dcu.ie. We will also be on steam using our steam group so if you haven't signed up yet to the group I suggest you do so now here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamessoc - Console Gaming | Wednesday 2-6pm | The Hub, Old Bar - Console gaming's on in the Hub in the Old Bar. That's the large room directly across from the Venue. It's on from 2-6pm. We'll have 2 Wiis, 2 PS3s and 2 360s set up so there will be something for everyone. We have a large selection of games like Smash Bros, Gears of War 3, Bomberman and we just got a copy of FIFA 12 this week so there's a lot to play. If you've got a PSP or DS bring them too. We usually have a few games of Tetris DS, Mario Kart and take on a few missions in Metal Gear: Peacewalker and Monster Hunter. - Pathfinder Pitfighting | Science Building, XG15 | Wednesday 6-10pm - Just a quick note that while Pitfighting is on Wednesday we'll still have a normal Traditional gaming night on also in the same room. You may be wondering what exactly is pit fighting. Think of it as the survival mode of an RPG where we take all that distracting story and plot and side quest and chuck it in a skip somewhere and focus on combat. So you fight against monsters until you fight till you are the last player standing and then... you fight more until everyone is dead. No experience is needed so if you have ever wanted to give a tabletop RPG a shot now is your chance. Characters will be provided on the day but if by any chance you are familiar with the pathfinder role playing system feel free to bring your own 3rd level character. You can use any class/race from the core rule book only no advance players guide or alternate classes allowed. - PC Gaming - I apologise yet again that PC Gaming will not be on this week. You may strike me with paddles for this insult. That's all this week hope you have a great time while I slowly punish myself playing Dark Souls. Yours Deliciously Oisin "A WINNER IS YOU" Kelly DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie/

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Welcome to GamesSoc & Maynooth MiniCon Trip

by St John Oisin Kelly

My apologies to all who already received this email. Hey everybody! First up I just want to say thanks to everybody who came down to our stall, signed up and played a few rounds. This email is going to be on 2 things: - Welcome to Games Soc! - - Maynooth Games Society Trip - Expect a email this Weekend giving you all an update on what on next week. - Welcome to Games Soc! - Welcome everybody to the Games Society! This is just a little introduction for you guys to check out a few places you can talk and introduce yourselves. First stop is the Website and forums at http://games.dcu.ie. Here's where you'll find all the info you need on weekly events, special announcements and of course general discussion of all things related or unrelated to games. If you've signed up there please feel free to introduce yourselves here: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3059.0 Next up is our FaceBook and Twitter pages. You can keep up to date on events here: http://twitter.com/#!/GamesSoc and post on our wall on Facebook here:http://www.facebook.com/groups/107549179282938/?notif_t=group_r2j Like IRC? Joined Redbrick? then just enter in "/join #gamessoc" to hop onto our channel and chat with the rest of GamesSoc. Finally if you have a steam account then you can join our group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamessoc and get announcements on online events and matches on our own servers. I'd like to thank you all for signing up for the Games Society and to keep an eye out for future emails on weekly events. - Maynooth Games Society Trip - This Saturday the 8th of October we'll be heading up to Maynooth to meet up with their Games Society for some tournaments, wargaming and plenty of free food. They'll be running all day from 11am onwards with loads of PCs, consoles, board games, card games and war games so there'll be something for everybody. For 40K players the matches will be casual standard 1750pts games. If you're into Magic then bring your deck as there's a good few players in NUI. Tournaments for video games will be decided on the day depending on what people want and all tournaments are free entry and there'll be prizes for the winners. They have a huge selection of board games also so you'll have a lot to play for the day. I'll talk about the travel plans for us here. We plan to get the train from Connolly Station to Maynooth at 9:36am and arrive at Maynooth for 10:16 then walk the rest of the way up. If you're interested in going but want to take the train later or at a different stop then the link for the train schedule is here: http://tinyurl.com/6jovcl6 We'll be meetin up in the Connolly train station at 9:00-9:20. It's €6.20 for a return ticket but the first ten comming with GamesSoc that morning get their ticket paid for. So you'll need to email me back if you're interested in going. >From the Maynooth station we'll be heading to the John Hume Building in NUI if you're with us we'll lead you there but otherwise here's a map to the area from the train station: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~creamygo/files/Maynooth%20Map.png (I apologise for the horrible paint job) Yet again I'll mention if you want to head up with us the first ten to respond to this email will have their return ticket paid for so if you're interested in going just email us back. That's all for now folks! Thanks again for checking us out on the Clubs and Socs days and I hope you all have a great time this year. Yours Deliciously Oisin John St John Kelly Chairperson DCU Games Society

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Welcome to GamesSoc & Maynooth MiniCon Trip

by St John Oisin Kelly

Hey everybody! First up I just want to say thanks to everybody who came down to our stall, signed up and played a few rounds. This email is going to be on 2 things: - Welcome to Games Soc! - - Maynooth Games Society Trip - Expect a email this Weekend giving you all an update on what on next week. - Welcome to Games Soc! - Welcome everybody to the Games Society! This is just a little introduction for you guys to check out a few places you can talk and introduce yourselves. First stop is the Website and forums at http://games.dcu.ie. Here's where you'll find all the info you need on weekly events, special announcements and of course general discussion of all things related or unrelated to games. If you've signed up there please feel free to introduce yourselves here: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3059.0 Next up is our FaceBook and Twitter pages. You can keep up to date on events here: http://twitter.com/#!/GamesSoc and post on our wall on Facebook here:http://www.facebook.com/groups/107549179282938/?notif_t=group_r2j Like IRC? Joined Redbrick? then just enter in "/join #gamessoc" to hop onto our channel and chat with the rest of GamesSoc. Finally if you have a steam account then you can join our group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamessoc and get announcements on online events and matches on our own servers. I'd like to thank you all for signing up for the Games Society and to keep an eye out for future emails on weekly events. - Maynooth Games Society Trip - This Saturday the 8th of October we'll be heading up to Maynooth to meet up with their Games Society for some tournaments, wargaming and plenty of free food. They'll be running all day from 11am onwards with loads of PCs, consoles, board games, card games and war games so there'll be something for everybody. For 40K players the matches will be casual standard 1750pts games. If you're into Magic then bring your deck as there's a good few players in NUI. Tournaments for video games will be decided on the day depending on what people want and all tournaments are free entry and there'll be prizes for the winners. They have a huge selection of board games also so you'll have a lot to play for the day. I'll talk about the travel plans for us here. We plan to get the train from Connolly Station to Maynooth at 9:36am and arrive at Maynooth for 10:16 then walk the rest of the way up. If you're interested in going but want to take the train later or at a different stop then the link for the train schedule is here: http://tinyurl.com/6jovcl6 We'll be meetin up in the Connolly train station at 9:00-9:20. It's €6.20 for a return ticket but the first ten comming with GamesSoc that morning get their ticket paid for. So you'll need to email me back if you're interested in going. >From the Maynooth station we'll be heading to the John Hume Building in NUI if you're with us we'll lead you there but otherwise here's a map to the area from the train station: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~creamygo/files/Maynooth%20Map.png (I apologise for the horrible paint job) Yet again I'll mention if you want to head up with us the first ten to respond to this email will have their return ticket paid for so if you're interested in going just email us back. That's all for now folks! Thanks again for checking us out on the Clubs and Socs days and I hope you all have a great time this year. Yours Deliciously Oisin John St John Kelly Chairperson DCU Games Society

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Clubs and Societies Week!

by DCU Games Soc

Hey guys, It's Clubs and Societies Week! I hope you're all settled back into college and ready for some new GamesSoc members to roll in. Here's whats on this week: - Clubs and Societies Days - All day Tuesday and Wednesday in The Hub - Traditional Games Monday - 6-10pm Building: Henry Grattan Room C165 - Traditional Games Wednesday - 6-10pm, Building: Science, Room: XG15 - Console Games - *Not on due to C&S day" - PC Games - *Not on this week sorry* - Clubs and Societies Days - On Tuesday and Wednesday we'll be set up at the top of the Venue in the Hub for Clubs and Societies week. This is where you can come on over and renew your membership as well as show your support and relax by playing a few games with freshers at our table. We'll be set up all day Tuesday and Wednesday so come on down for some free sweets and fun games! - Traditional Games and a new RPG room - Traditional games for Monday will be in room C165 in the Henry Grattan Building from 6pm to 10pm. On Wednesday we'll be in room XG15 in the Science Building from 6-10pm. We also have room C165 in the Henry Grattan booked from 6-10pm. This room is for RPGs and can be used by anybody from GamesSoc. If you feel like using the room anytime just email us back. As mentioned before our games list is here: http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/DCUgamessoc. If you feel like playing with my balls head onto http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2041.0 and post what game you'd like to see there. That's all this week. Yours Lovingly, Oisin Kelly

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Consoles and Traditional this Wednesday

by DCU Games Soc

Hey Guys, We have the rooms set up for Consoles and Traditional this Wednesday. Here's the info: - Console Games - Wednesday 2-6pm, Building: The Hub, Room: The Old Bar - Traditional Games – Wednesday 6-10pm, Building: Science, Room: XG15 Console Games We'll be setting up Rock Band, PS3, 2 Wiis and 2 360s for system link games so there will be something for everybody. Traditional Games I'm sure you're all wondering about the room change for Wednesday but unfortunately every room in the Henry Grattan was booked out. Why every room? I have no idea but XG15 will now take over for Wednesdays and it's a larger room and right beside vending machines if people want snacks while playing. Cheers, Oisin Kelly Chairperson DCU Games Society

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Welcome Back to Games Soc!

by DCU Games Soc

Hey guys, Hope you all had a good break and are set for the new year. We're still organizing rooms for events this week so currently we only have Traditional running. Here's whats on this week: - Traditional Games Monday - 6-10pm Building: Henry Grattan Room C165 - Traditional Games Wednesday - *Not on this week* - Console Games - Wednesday *Not on this week* - PC Games - Thursday *Not on this week* - Traditional Games Monday - Traditional games will be in room C165 in the Henry Grattan Building from 6pm to 10pm. I'm sure some of you might already know but we have a list of all the games in the storeroom at http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/DCUgamessoc. If you feel like playing anything listed there head onto http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2041.0 and post what game you'd like to see there. - Games you want to see this year - I know i've been putting this in the past few emails but I'd really like to get some suggestions from everybody this year. The forum topics are as follows: Consoles: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3033.0 PC: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3034.0 Traditional: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3035.0 That's all this week, not much but we'll have more events as we move deeper into this semester. Yours Effectively Oisin Kelly

12 years, 11 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Summer BYOPC LAN this week!

by DCU Games Soc

Hey folks, The Summer BYOPC LAN is on this week. That's BYOPC as in Bring Your Own PC. 3rd & 4th of September starting at 12pm Saturday and ending 12pm Sunday. Just to refresh your memories lets go over the details. - Signing up - If you haven't signed up yet there's still time. It's a €10 entry fee and you'll just need to supply your email to sign up. Just go over to http://games.dcu.ie/#event4 and click on sign up. - The Location - The Lan is being held in DCU, in the Helix, in the Space. To get there you just need to enter through the side door. Here's the entry location on a map: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~paraflux/gs/campus.gif - Tournaments - The tournament polls will be closed on Friday and some tournaments are currently in a tie so if you haven't voted yet now's the time: Solo FPS: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3022.0 Team FPS: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3023.0 RTS: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3024.0 Misc: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3025.0 There's prizes for all the tournaments and runner up prizes for 2nd and 3rd place in the RTS, Solo FPS and depending on what the Misc tournament runner up prizes for that too. - What to bring - + PC + Extension cord + Cat-5 cable + Food + €10 fee - Games - Dont worry if your favourite game doesn't win the tournament poll because they'll all be there and i'm sure we'll have plenty of time to rack up a few matches in all of them. Other then the game listed in those polls we have plenty more: - Counter Strike Source/1.6 - Dawn of War Dark Crusade & DoW 2 - Battlefield: Bad company 2 - League of Legend & Heroes of Newearth - Starcraft 1 & 2 - Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 - Company of Heroes - Monday Night Combat - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - Diablo II and a lot more that I cant list without making this email a two-parter. Dont forget that we'll have the consoles set up with us and tables for any RPGs, wargaming and board games since the storeroom is below the venue. I just want to send out a thanks to all members who have taken part in the survey so far. It's going to be a great help for the new year. If you haven't taken the survey yet and want to just go to http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=c8u7rmy65surugr953637 Finally I'll remind everybody that we're looking at you for suggestions for games this year. Just head onto the links here and post whatever you'd like to see at gamessoc: Traditional: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3035.0 Console: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3033.0 PC: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3034.0 That's all folks, I hope you enjoy the rest of your break. Yours Deliciously, St John Oisin Kelly

13 years

[Announce-gamesoc] GamesSoc Survey and New Games

by DCU Games Soc

Hey folks, We're approaching the new college year and we need to get opinions from all of you so we can make sure you're happy this year. First off, we have a survey. It's simply 13 questions that can help us determine the areas we need to focus on and improve as well as find out our strong points and make sure we dont change them. The online survey is here: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=c8u7rmy65surugr953637 Secondly we'd like all of you to head onto the forums to suggest new games we can get for the year. There's a topic for each one: Traditional: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3035.0 Console: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3033.0 PC: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3034.0 Thanks everybody, this'll really help us focus on making things better for all members. Yours Deliciously, Chairman Sir Saint John Percival Oisin Christopher Kelly Preston Esquire, Chairperson DCU Games Society

13 years

[Announce-gamesoc] Summer LAN

by DCU Games Soc

Hey Folks, It's time again for another BYOPC LAN at the Space in the Helix. It'll be starting at 12pm on the 3rd of September and ending 12pm the following day. I'm sure by now you all know what you need but lets go over it again: - Signing up - What to bring - How to get there - Tournaments Polls - More Games - Signing up - The entry fee is €10 on the day you can sign up on the GamesSoc home page. If you don't have an account you'll just need to supply your email to signup. - What to bring - + PC + Extension cord + Cat-5 cable + Food + €10 fee - How to get there - To get to the Space just go to the stage door entry on the side of the Helix. http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~paraflux/gs/campus.gif - Tournament Polls You can vote on what tournaments are played at the LAN here: Solo FPS: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3022.0 Team FPS: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3023.0 RTS: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3024.0 Misc: http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=3025.0 - More Games We'll be bringing up any games from the basement including our brand new TVs and hooking up consoles for people to play. Yours Deliciously, Chairman Sir Saint John Percival Oisin Christopher Kelly Preston Esquire, Chairperson DCU Games Society

13 years, 1 month

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