EIGF ANNOUNCES
GAMES SCREENING TIMING
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[ July 12th 2004 ]
The Edinburgh
International Games Festival has announced a full
line-up of Game Screening items for this year's
event, which takes place from Wednesday 11th August
through to Saturday 14th August. The Game Screenings
programme is designed to give the public an insight
into upcoming games and some enduring classics,
as well as an opportunity to quiz their creators
- and this year's programme will see three new
titles premiering at the event.
Eidos'
Ian Livingstone opens the programme on the Wednesday
with a discussion of the creation of the Lara
Croft phenomenon, and an introduction to Hitman's
Agent 47, while EA's Neil Young will be showing
off The Sims 2 later in the same day. Thursday
sees a head-to-head Xbox Live challenge between
the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, supported
by BT Broadband, while the Screening programme
launches again in earnest on Friday, when Sports
Interactive's Miles Jacobson will be showing off
Football Manager 2005 for the first time.
Later
on Friday, Emily Newton Dunn of onedotzero will
be presenting a discussion session on "the Culture
of Fear," examining the phenomenon of scary video
games, while on Saturday two more UK game premieres
take place - as Jonathan Smith of Giant Interactive
shows off LEGO Star Wars for the first time, while
Lyle Hall from THQ's Heavy Iron Studios presents
Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles.
Finally,
the programme wraps up on Saturday with an event
designed to discuss the reality of working in
the games industry - hosted jointly by Ideas Factory
Scotland and Dare To Be Digital, with Rebecca
Thompson from Channel 4's Ideas Factory chairing
a discussion which promises to involve a "host
of famous names."
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