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EIEF FESTIVAL
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Copyright 2005 EIEF Press Release
[ July 6th 2005 ]
The Edinburgh
Interactive Entertainment Festival (EIEF) is issuing
a final call to industry delegates booking places
for this year's event which will take place from
10th – 14th August at the Edinburgh International
Conference Centre (EICC). Members of ELSPA, TIGA,
BAFTA, PACT, DCF, IGDA and ESA have until 15th
July 2005 to book places at a discounted rate
of £165 (plus VAT)*. Edinburgh Interactive will
run 11th-12th August with the after show party
sponsored by Nokia N-Gage and presented by Joystick
Junkies running '8.00 'til late at CARGO!
The Festival
has been developed to showcase the evolution,
convergence and impact of interactive entertainment
on popular culture and to encourage debate on
the future direction of the industry. This year's
event will be attended by the industry's most
influential visionaries including: Ian Livingstone,
Creative Director of Eidos; Ray Maguire, Senior
Vice President and MD, Sony Computer Entertainment
UK, Ireland and Nordic and David Yarnton, General
Manager, Nintendo UK and Associated Markets.
Edinburgh
Interactive will see delegates and speakers from
the TV, film, music and telecoms industries come
together for two days of discussion and debate
focusing on the shape of tomorrow's interactive
entertainment industry. Key speakers and panelists
confirmed for the Festival's packed conference
programme, Edinburgh Interactive (11th-12th August)
includes notables such as Charles Cecil, MD, Revolution
Software; Adam Singer, CEO, MCPS/PRS Alliance;
Janine Smith, Producer, Channel 4; Jeffrey Gaffney,
NCsoft, NCsoft; Seamus Blackley, Creative Artists
Agency, Hollywood, Los Angeles; Kamar Shah, Global
Marketing Manager (Industry Marketing, Games Business
Program, Nokia Multi Media) and Professor Ken
Perlin, Director of Media Research Lab, New York
State University. Conference topics include radical
changes, mobile gaming, handheld gaming, the strength
of narratives in gaming and convergence.
Edinburgh
Interactive delegates can also enjoy the Festival's
Game Screenings, which are open to games enthusiasts
from the public. Key members of the Games Industry
including David Braben, Mark Green, Mark Rein
and Mike Jacob will be hosting Screenings that
explore topics such as collaborating with film
studios to create game releases, the best in mobile
gaming and many others. NVIDIATM is showcasing
the awesome power of the partner products powered
by NVIDIA technology. The packed programme will
showcase footage of some of the year's most eagerly
awaited releases across all platforms with many
European premieres including Eyetoy®: Kinetic,
24TM: The Game, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse
of The Were-Rabbit, The Movies, Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,
Darwinia and Multiwinia, Battalion Wars and many
more.
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