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Industry Leaders Declare Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008 Resounding Success August 28th 2008
As the curtain fell on this year's Edinburgh Interactive Festival, some of the industry’s key decision makers in video and interactive entertainment were quick to praise the festival for continuing to increase focus on the cultural impact and relevance of games.
The festival, which this year celebrated its sixth anniversary, exists to showcase the continued popularity, growth and influence of video games, exploring their cultural impact and look at the future of interactive content.
2008 featured a major two-day conference programme, an array of networking events, an expansion of the festival's Games Screenings programme covering three cinema rooms and a major public area with gaming features, retail and recruitment sites. Dare ProtoPlay, the public showcase event of Dare to be Digital, UK’s premier video games design competition, also took place under the same roof.
Edinburgh Interactive Festival is the only event that brings together the games industry’s key decision makers from games publishing, hardware and development alongside Government, TV, film, press and other entertainment industries as well as students seeking to work within the creative industries.
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10 Rough Guide to Video Games to be won! August 20th 2008
Rough Guides are offering you the chance to win 1 of 10 copies of the new Rough Guide to Videogames, the ultimate companion to the world's most addictive pastime. To enter simply answer this question:
What is the name of Mario's girlfriend?
a. Maria
b. Pauline
c. Lucia
To enter, send your answer and contact details to before 30th September 2008. Good luck!
You can view more Rough Guides at http://www.roughguides.com
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Download the Official 2008 Guide July 25th 2008
With more content than ever before, and covering more new ground than all previous years put together, the Games screenings promise to cater for all kinds of gamers - download the PDF now to see the full show programme.
New for 2008, the games feature area will showcase new games from some of the industry’s top publishers including Nintendo, Sony, Codemasters and Activision.
Edinburgh’s famous Film House Cinema will be teaming up with the EIF, to show a series of short films which will take a look at the way in which video games and the ongoing evolution of gaming is affecting the world. Read the full story
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