News and Events

November 2008

• Londonmet Girl Gamers Tournament, part of London Games Festival
  

June 2008

• Hide and Seek Festival at Southbank, 26-29th June
  http://www.hideandseekfest.co.uk/
  
  
• DIGI-MET 2008
  London Metropolitan University Department of Computing
  Games and Multimedia Graduate Show 3/4 June 2008
  http://www.digi-met.co.uk
  
  

May 2008

• Team Orion selected for Dare-to-be-Digital competition!
  Samson, Jan, Shane, Tolga and Amish are heading to Brighton next month to build a funky XBox game.
  
  
  
• Game08 at Imperial College, 21 May
  http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/game/

April 2008

• 24th April Games Grads 2008 - free seminars
  http://www.gamesgrads.co.uk/
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Nigel Canin from 2 Simple Software

March 2008

• Blitz Open Days - apply and submit work by 11 Jan 08
  http://www.blitzgames.com/openday/
  
  
• Play Live at Wembley - 15/16 March 2008
  http://www.play.com/campaign.aspx?campaign=4791&cid=6219706
  
  
• Free microsoft tools for students
  https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/

February 2008

• Nick Burton's Gamasutra article - How Rare Recruits Graduates
  http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17260
  
  
• Will Wright Video Games Awards BAFTA lecture available online
  http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/will-wright-video-games-lecture-in-2007,254,BA.html
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Dr Marco Gillies from UCL on "Virtual Reality and Games" - Monday 4 Feb
  2pm BR4-04, Thurs 7 Feb 2pm BEL-211
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Nick Burton from Rare talks about "Real Time Graphics for Games" and "The Past, Present and Future of Computer Games Development" - 28 Feb
  
  
• Guest Lecture: Judi Spiers, ex-THQ Production Manager, talks SCRUM and games industry opportunities - 14 Feb

November 2007

• CVG students do QA work (games testing) for THQ International - ongoing.
  " The students ... have been fantastic.  They are eager, enthusiastic and have given some great feedback ... I would really like to have them back ... " John Hopkin, THQ  

• Bloodspell, the Raise of the Machinima - register on Facebook:
  http://londonmu.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5728442327&ref=mf
  22 Nov at GC108 (New Graduate Centre) starting 17:15
  
  
• Microsoft Inspiration Tour at Stapleton House 15 Nov - register here.
  
  
• Louise Hussey - Producer at Rushes (www.rushes.co.uk), one of the UK's top animation and post production facilities, and some of her team will be coming to give a talk to animation students and show some work.
  Weds 14th Nov. 2:00pm in TH208
  
  
• Adobe Creative Suite Campus Tour
  Weds 7 Nov 2007, TH G03 and Refectory

October 2007

• London Games Festival 22 Oct - 2 Nov

• CVG Team runs mobile treasure hunt TXT 4 TREASURE as part of London Games Festival Fringe.
  http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/london-met-at-the-london-games-festival.cfm

August 2007

• Dare to be Digital - CVG graduate Ross Darvill's team Lucid Dreams reaches final 6 at Edinburgh.

July 2007

• CVG showcase at Develop Expo, Brighton.
  
  
• Develop Conference, Brighton

June 2007

• Digital Escape - Graduate Show 2007. First cohort of graduates from BSc Computer Visualisation and Games, with BSc Multimedia and BSc Animation students.

April 2007

• Gamesgrads 07