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1. London Games Festival 2008
   

   Player Chronicle -- Posted on Oct 17 2008

   www.londongamesfestival.co.uk
   
   Video Games Live™ at the Royal Festival Hall - October 24
   Praise for Video Games Live
   
   “Video game music is coming of age” MTV
   “It is a sign of the ongoing evolution of games both as entertainment and Art” BBC NEWS
   “Video game music has grown up. I’m at a cocert playing video game music. Who would have predicted that?” Stan Lee, Comic book legend, co-creator Spiderman & X-Men
   “It shows that the audience for video games is not a niche market. It’s part of the fabric of our culture” Elijah Wood, Actor – Lord of the Rings & Sin City
   
   World Record Attempt: The Gaming World Needs You! October - 25
   
   Attention all gaming fans! To mark the launch of the UK’s biggest gaming extravaganza, the London Games Festival, a world record attempt to have the largest gathering of people dressed up as video game characters is occurring on 25 October at the London ExCel centre!
   
   Hosted on the opening day of the London MCM Expo, this is the ultimate chance to prove your gaming credentials and show the world how much of a fan you really are! With the current record a measly 80 people, get out and buff your World of Warcraft armor, equip those Lara Croft dual pistols and brush that Guitar Hero mullet wig and get on down to the ExCel to strut your stuff and become a part of gaming history.
   
   Video Games Live™ at the Royal Festival Hall
   Video Games Live, the biggest live performance in video games, is back with its 2008 show. Following last year’s smash hit sell-out, the London Games Festival is delighted to announce that there will be two performances at the Royal Festival Hall on 24th October at 4pm and 8pm. The event will launch this year’s festival celebrating all the excitement and variety of the gaming industry.
   
   Video Games Live is the sensational multi-media concert celebrating the most memorable hits from the world’s best-loved video games, which has performed to sold-out audiences of over 250,000 people from around the globe. From Pong, Mario and Sonic, to Halo, Warcraft, Zelda, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy, Video Games Live combines cutting edge visuals and interactive technology with gaming’s greatest music, performed live by co-creators Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, with the prestigious English Chamber Orchestra.
   
   B2B – Games 3.0, The Casual Games Forum and for fun the Golden Joystick’s
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   The Casual Games Forum
   
   The Casual Games Forum is a new one-day conference and networking event designed specifically for anyone involved in or interested in the business of casual gaming.
   
   With all the current innovations taking place - casual gaming has become an accepted and integral part of the games industry as a whole. And with this sector of the market developing at such a rapid rate, it’s more important than even that today’s games industry professionals keep up-to-date with the latest trends and stay ahead of tomorrow’s business opportunities.
   
   Taking place as part of the London Games Festival, this is a rare opportunity for you to gain insight, ideas and inspiration from some of the casual games market’s leading players.
   
   The 2008 Golden Joysticks – together with Virgin Media
   
   As it now enters its twenty sixth triumphant year, Gaming’s favourite awards ceremony is back bigger and better than ever!
   
   And LGV are proud to welcome on board Virgin Media as our headline sponsor for this year’s show. As well as the show itself, Virgin will be sponsoring gaming’s most prestigious prize, the Virgin Media Ultimate Game of the Year.
   
   "The Golden Joystick Awards – together with Virgin Media, will actively promote the ‘Mother of all Broadband’ - it's fast, it's future proof, it's fibre optic - only from Virgin Media. It's perfect for speed-hungry online gamers and offers unrivalled speeds, with up to 50Mb launching at the end of 2008."
   
   Fringe
   Guitar Hero World Tour Battle of the Bands
   http://www.londongamesfestival.co.uk/EventDetails.aspx?ID=110
   Venue: The Rigg, London South Bank University Students' Union, Thomas Doyle St, SE1 6NG
   Tube: Elephant & Castle (Bakerloo and Northern Line)
   Date: 6:30pm-11pm, Wed 29 October 2008
   Booking: Free entry (over-18s only), to perform in the competition book via e-mail at thefragg@hotmail.co.uk
   
   Unofficial fan event/Over-18s only: If you're a fretboard-shredding plastic-axe hero, and/or want to see people who think they might be, come to the Fringe's biggest music videogame face-off, with prizes generously donated by Activision Blizzard's Guitar Hero World Tour. Judged on all aspects of their performance, competitors not only have to score big but perform big as well, playing on a real stage to a real audience in a proper live gig setting. With expert judges giving bands an X-Factor-like grilling, only the best will be crowned London Games Fringe Guitar Heroes of the Year. And if you can't hold a tune, there'll be a cosplay competition as well - come dressed as a Guitar Hero character and the best picked by the audience and judges will win. So turn it up to eleven!
   
   Games Art Networking Event
   http://www.londongamesfestival.co.uk/EventDetails.aspx?ID=111
   Venue: HTTP Gallery, Unit a2, Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Road, N4 1NY
   Tube: Manor House
   Date: 12-6pm, Saturday 25 October
   Booking: Free entry, but bring some evidence of a project under development - booking essential, please contact Lauren@furtherfield.org
   Info:
   This event will bring together people who work and play with games, videogames and playful practice of all kinds. Games Art does exactly what it says on the tin; art that uses, abuses and misuses the materials and language of games, whether real world, digital or both. The event will bring together artists, gamers,hackers, theorists, curators, activists, thinkers and doers all of kind, which work with games, videogames and playful practice of all kinds.

   
   

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1. BEN
   Posted On Oct 17 2008

   Very cool. If you attend these things, we'd love to see a unique GoG profile setup to represent what you experienced with news, photos, and maybe even some video! I won't be able to make it, so bring us into the action through this community!
   
   When we host or attend events, we'll setup a special profile for it, grab the Referral Code from the new profile, then share that with the people we meet, so when they use it they can be automatically connected with the event they heard about GoG at and the other gamers that we meet