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[Announce-gamesoc] Tech Week - PS3, Hardware Tutorials, Games Talks and more!

by DCU Games Soc

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

17 years, 6 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Console Gaming cancelled today

by DCU Games Soc

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

17 years, 6 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Games Soc this week

by DCU Games Soc

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

17 years, 6 months

[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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Dawn of War Map Campaign

by DCU Games Soc

Interested in joining up in a play-test of a DoW map campaign? Please reply on the forums :- http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=1476 with the following details. Name of Army Army Race Army Colour Connection Access (None, 56K, Broadband) We will be starting up the campaign in the new year before semester 2 starts. We hope to set up a campaign that starts in the semester but need to work out the mechanics of the campaign :) Cheers, John -- DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie

17 years, 8 months

[Announce-gamesoc] Come Wii with Games Soc!

by DCU Games Soc

Hey guys, Yeah, firstly I have to apologise for that subject line. Simon (our esteemed Chairperson) insisted I use it... Anyway... - Console Gaming, Wednesday from 2pm in the Hub. - Hoodies ordered! Our last event of the year will be this Wednesday when once again we'll have Console Gaming set up around the Hub, with, as you may have guessed from that delightfully witty *cough* subject line, one Nintendo Wii, which is being brought along by one of our beloved members. So whether you're just curious or you've already found out how much fun they are, come to the Hub tomorrow for some Wii Sports, Monkey Ball and whatever else we can get our hands on. It goes without saying that anyone with any Wii pads or games can bring them along. Thanks to all of you that came to the Christmas Party we had with Drama and Redbrick last Thursday, it was a really great night and the place was completely packed. Hoodies have finally been ordered! We should be getting them delivered soon so if those of you who've ordered want them before Christmas, give your money to one of the committee at Console Gaming tomorrow or pay straight to the account here: http://games.redbrick.dcu.ie/about/join.php and we'll organise a time for you to pick it up. Finally, the Games Soc committee would like to wish all of our members a Merry Christmas (we're so nice!). Good luck with the exams too! See you tomorrow, or next year if you can't make it, --Kevin Secretary, DCU Games Society http://games.dcu.ie

17 years, 9 months

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