Hey guys,
- Console Gaming
- Lab Gaming
- BYOPC 7
-Console Gaming-
As usual lots more Guitar Hero 2, Halo 3 and now Call of Duty 4 on our
brand new Playstation 3! for which we also have Resistance: Fall of Man
and Heavenly Sword. Console Gaming will be on from 3pm in the seminar room
on Wednesday.
-Lab Gaming-
Lab Gaming will be on the same place, same time (thats C204, Henry Grattan
building @ 6pm) this week. Come along and play some CS, Quake 3, Age of
Empires and lots, lots more... get some practice in before the big LAN :)
-BYOPC 7-
This is the big one. On December 1st/2nd GamesSoc will be taking over the
hub for our first 24 hour LAN of the year! We'll be running tournaments in
Team Fortress 2, CounterStrike: Source, Unreal Tournament and Dawn of War:
Dark Crusade. We'll also be playing plenty of other games too including
Supreme Commander, C&C3, Quake 3, Call of Duty 4 to name just a few... and
of course whatever other games you feel like playing on the night.
The event will kick off @ 11am on Saturday 1st December, and end at 11am
Sunday 2nd December. We'll have plenty of prizes from the likes of Steel
Series and Microsoft for the winners of the tournaments. Entrance fee to
the LAN will be 10.
If you wish to attend, head over to http://www.byopc.dcu.ie/ to register.
Head on over to http://games.dcu.ie/forums/ to discuss anything about the
LAN or the weekly events, you know HAVE YOUR SAY! and all that jazz...
Robby
Secretary, DCU GamesSoc
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey Guys,
- Console Gaming
- Lab Gaming
- Open Day
- Hoodies
-Console Gaming-
It's consoles as per usual again this week folks, we'll have the Wii, Halo
3, Guitar Hero and a few Gamecube's setup and will be providing lots of
food and drinks for everyone! Console gaming will be on from 2-6pm this
week, also if you have a DS or a PSP bring them along too!
-Lab Gaming-
After a terrific Quake 3 tournament last week, congrats to winner
terrorteck, we'll have normal lab gaming this week, which means lots of
cs, day of defeat and even more quake 3! Lab Gaming is on in the Henry
Grattan building, C204, 6-9pm.
-DCU Open Day-
This Friday and Saturday GamesSoc will be out in force for DCU Open day.
The XBox Live Gaming Center will be out with us on the day, and with them
they'll be bringing multiple flat screen tv's and xbox 360's...so expect a
very large turnout for that! We'll be upstairs in the venue (just inside
the doors) so you wont be able to miss us!
- Hoodies -
Just a reminder that we're still taking orders for GamesSoc hoodies at the
moment. The hoodies come in all sizes, are 40 and come in navy, lightblue
and pink. They're really great quality and have been really popular around
campus. So if you want one let us know, cause we'll be ordering pretty
soon!
So come along to the weekly events and if you're free come along and play
some games on open day and show all the newbs what GamesSoc is all about
:)
Robby,
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey guys,
- Console Gaming
- Quake 3 Tournament
- Hoodies
-Console Gaming-
This Wednesday console gaming will kick off at 3pm in the seminar room,
running until 6pm. We'll have the Wii, Guitar Hero 2, Halo 3 and other
stuff setup on the day, and we'll be providing lots of free refreshments
as usual! Also, if you have a DS or PSP, bring it along as we'll have an
area set aside for handheld gaming.
-Quake 3 Tournament-
On Thursday we'll be running our first Quake 3 tournament during lab
gaming. Entry for the tournament will be 2 and we'll have some great
prizes up for grabs! Lab Gaming takes place 6-9pm, C204 in the Henry
Grattan building.
-GamesSoc Hoodies-
We're currently taking orders for a new batch of GamesSoc hoodies. They
cost 40 each and come in navy, light blue and pink! The order itself will
be made as soon as we have enough people to make an order, last year
demand was quite high so order soon to make sure you don't have to wait
until a second order!
All details regarding the hoodies can be found here:
http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=1892.0
If you want to place an order simply mail us at games(a)redbrick.dcu.ie with
your name and size/colour desired.
And thats everything for this week! :)
Robby
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey all,
= Smash Bros Tournament! =
This Wednesday will see the return of our Super Smash Bros Melee tournament in the Seminar Room at 2pm. Play as any of your favourite Nintendo characters and battle it out! We had a massive turnout last year and this time it promises to be even bigger. Entry is 2 euro and there'll be prizes for the winners, along with tons of free food for everyone who turns up!
And if you're not all that interested in Smash Bros, we should have the Wii, Xbox 360 and Playstation around too :)
If you're into handheld consoles, you should start bringing along your DS or PSP to Console gaming too and we can get a few games of Mario Kart DS, Elite Beat Agents, Metroid or any other games going every week.
= Lab Gaming =
Lab Gaming will be on once again at 6pm in C204 on Thursday, with all the usual games, including Counter Strike, Quake 3, Age of Empires, Day of Defeat and loads more!
= Games Soc Hoodies! =
We've had a lot of people asking us about how to get one of the Games Soc hoodies. They cost 40 euro and we'll be doing a new order soon, so if you'd like to buy one, either just mail your desired size to gamessoc(a)redbrick.dcu.ie or post in the hoody thread on our forums. :)
We'll be announcing details on our Bring Your Own PC LAN quite soon. Remember to check out the forums and if there are games you'd like to see at our events or tournaments you'd like us to run, just let us know through the forums or email :)
Hope to see you all during the week,
Kev
--
DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey guys,
Just a quick mail to remind you all that this week we'll be running both
Console and Lab Gaming as per usual. Consoles will be on from 3pm in The
Hub on Wednesday and Lab Gaming will run from 6 - 9pm on Thursday, C204 in
the Henry Grattan building.
Also a reminder that our Team Fortress 2 server is back up. It was down
for a few days for, err...maintenance :) CounterStrike 1.6 and Quakeworld
are also still running. The IP is blinky.games.dcu.ie, check out the
forums for more info.
See you all during the week!
Robby,
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hello folks,
- Halo 3 Tournament
- Lab Gaming
- Halo 3 Tournament -
Well here it is. One of our biggest console events of the year is here!
This Wednesday, in the seminar room, GamesSoc are running our first ever
Halo 3 tournament! This is one of our most exciting tournaments of the
year, and attracts some of dcu's most skilled halo players. We have lots
of really cool prizes to give away, and we'll be providing some free
refreshments as well.
The tournament is an individual free-for-all with top scoring players
progressing further into knockout stages after a couple of rounds. There
will be an entry fee of 2 and registration for the event begins at 1.30pm
at the seminar room, with the action kicking off at 2pm (ending at 5pm).
- Return of Lab Gaming -
Yes its finally back...this Thursday lab gaming returns! Lab gaming is run
weekly over in the Henry Grattan building, in lab C204 from 6-9pm. We've
got a nice collection of games including; CounterStrike, Quakeworld,
Starcraft, Age of Empires II, Day of Defeat and many more. Since there are
only 25 computers in the lab, we'll be letting people in on a first-come
first-served basis, so we advise you guys to show up as early as possible
to guarantee yourself a place.
Also, if you haven't already heard, we now have a Team Fortress 2 server
running. The IP of which is blinky.games.dcu.ie:27018, there'll be people
on playing all week, so join us for a few games at some stage! Thats it
then, see you all during the week :)
Wednesday: Halo 3 Tournament, 2pm, Seminar Room.
Thursday: Lab Gaming, 6pm, C204 in the Henry Grattan building.
Robby,
Secretary, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey folks,
- Console Gaming
- Redbrick & GamesSoc Freshers Ball
- Prize Draw
First off I'd just want to extend a warm welcome to all of our new members
and welcome back all of our old members. This year we've had our most
successful Clubs & Socs Day to date, registering a massive 172 members,
making GamesSoc the largest we've ever been! As such you can expect an
even bigger effort from us on the committee for the upcoming year.
-Console Gaming-
Well this Wednesday we'll be running our weekly console gaming event in
the Seminar Room, upstairs in The Hub from 1- 4pm. Games that'll be played
include Halo 3, Guitar Hero 2, Mariokart and Smash Bros, and of course we'll
have all of our games available to play if you fancy something else. We'll
also be providing some light refreshments for everyone :)
-Freshers ball-
This Thursday will see Redbrick & GamesSoc host our annual Freshers Ball.
There will be a live band playing and a DJ afterwards, with a late bar
running on the night. We will be present, providing some console gaming
for everyone. The event kicks off at 9pm on Thursday at Radio City, so make
sure you have a ticket which were handed out on Clubs & Socs Day!
-Prize Draw-
Our sponsors over at steelseries (http://steelseries.com/) have given us
some lovely new mouse mats to give away, so we've picked two members in a
draw to receive prizes. And the winners are... Alex McLeod and Brian Kane,
Congrats guys! You are now both owners of lovely steelseries gaming mouse
mats.
Hope to see you all Wednesday @ 1pm in the Seminar Room and then for a few
drinks on Thursday ;)
Robby,
Secretary, DCU Games Society
Hi!
Just a quick reminder to all of last year's members, be sure to come along to the Hub and renew your Games Soc membership for the new year in DCU!
This year we'll be doing all of our usual regular events like Console gaming and PC Lab Gaming every week as well loads more tournaments in games like Halo 3, Guitar Hero 2, Wii Sports, Pro Evo, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros and lots more!
You can also expect more BYOPC lans with games like CS, Battlefield, Unreal Tournament, Quake, Dawn of War etc.
So, if you haven't done so already, be sure to renew your membership at the Games Soc table in the Hub today! We even have 2 awesome SteelSeries gaming mousemats to give away to two lucky members that sign up this week!
Hope to see you all soon :)
Kev
Chairperson, DCU Games Society
http://games.dcu.ie
Hey folks,
Firstly I'd like to say welcome back to everyone, to what we hope will be
another great year for DCU Games Society! We're planning some really cool
stuff this year, so make sure to join us on Clubs & Socs Day so you don't
miss out :)
We're kicking things off early this semester, and will be running a
console gaming session at 1-5pm up in the seminar room in the Hub tomorrow
(Wednesday). We'll have all your old favourites running, as well as some
new ones which include Halo 3, Guitar Hero 2 and our brand new Nintendo
Wii!
So thats Wednesday @ 1pm, in the seminar room in the Hub...and join
Games Soc next week on Clubs and Socs Days! (October 2nd + 3rd)
Robert O'Reilly
Secretary , DCU Games Society.