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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
Nintendo and Gamestation host a pre-festival Game Session to celebrate the start of EIF 08! July 22nd 2008
To mark the start of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Nintendo have teamed up with Gamestation for a pre-festival launch game session.
You are invited to join Mario and friends in store on the Saturday 9th August from 10am – 5pm to take the MarioKart Challenge on Nintendo Wii. The person with the fastest race time will win a copy of MarioKart Wii
Gamers are also invited to join the party in fancy dress. Come along on Saturday as your favourite Nintendo character to be in with a chance to win other great prizes!
You can also pick up your free tickets and Official Guide for the Edinburgh Interactive Festival in-store during the game sessions.
Make sure you join the action at Gamestation, 134A Princes Street, EDINBURGH, EH2 4AH Read the full story
Calling all gamers and games fans June 20th 2008
Get free tickets for the Edinburgh Interactive Festival at your local Gamestation in Scotland
The sixth Annual Edinburgh Interactive Festival is taking place this year at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre from Sunday 10th until Tuesday 12th August 2008, and you are invited!
This year the Festival has some amazing events and plays host to some of the games industry’s biggest players, including the likes of Sony, Nintendo and Codemasters. Read the full story
Register Now June 20th 2008
The Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008, the world’s most important festival that seeks to expand the creative culture of games and interactive entertainment, is now open for registration.
EIF 2008 will take place from Sunday 10th to Tuesday 12th August, and will this year move to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre as part of a move to develop the scale and profile of the event which this year includes a number of new initiatives and changes from previous years.
2008 will feature a major two-day conference programme, an array of networking events, an expansion of the EIF Games Screenings programme covering three cinema rooms, 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, will also take place under the same roof as the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and will run from Sunday 10th to Tuesday 12th August alongside the public areas and Games Screenings.
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