Eurogamer Expo

October 7, 2008 · Filed Under Gobby Shite · 6 Comments 

Probably (hopefully) the only time I’ll print a press release verbatim on here…

BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, 6th October 2008: The best consumer gaming event of 2008 just got better, with 56 playable games now confirmed for the Eurogamer Expo, which takes place at the Old Truman Brewery in London on October 28th and 29th.

Headlining the new arrivals are two highly anticipated first-person shooters - Killzone 2 for PlayStation 3, and Left 4 Dead, which will be playable on Xbox 360 for the first time in Europe. Wii fans aren’t left out in the cold either, with Nintendo’s Disaster: Day of Crisis and Wario Land: The Shake Dimension also confirmed for the show.

Eurogamer is also proud to support Pixel-Lab’s Indie Arcade at the Expo, showcasing 10 of the best titles in independent PC game development. See below for the complete list of titles.

Tickets are now on sale for Eurogamer Expo, costing just£5 per day, with all proceeds after credit card processing fees going to UK videogames charity GamesAid. The Expo is open from 11am to 10pm each day. Visitors must be aged 15 or over to enter.

Tickets also admit visitors to the GamesIndustry.biz Career Fair, with 20 exhibitors now confirmed as attending, including Fable II creators Lionhead. Other exhibitors include Crytek, Relentless Software, Realtime Worlds, Starbreeze, Ubisoft, SEGA Europe and Microsoft Game Studios.

To register for tickets, visit http://expo.eurogamer.net/register

For more on the Eurogamer Expo, visit http://expo.eurogamer.net

Full list of new playable titles:

  • Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3)
  • Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360)
  • Disaster: Day of Crisis (Nintendo Wii)
  • Wario Land: The Shake Dimension (Nintendo Wii)
  • PSN Power Pack (PlayStation Portable)
  • PSN Puzzle Pack (PlayStation Portable)

Pixel-Lab Indie Arcade:

  • Braid (PC)
  • Dangerous Highschool Girls In Trouble (PC)
  • Jetpack Brontosaurus (PC)
  • Multiwinia (PC)
  • Plain Sight (PC)
  • Psychosomnium (PC)
  • Samorost (PC)
  • Shift (PC)
  • War Twat (PC)
  • World of Goo (PC)

Just. Woah.

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War Twat Hi(gher) Vis

August 20, 2008 · Filed Under Development Log · 6 Comments 

[update: apparantly, something went fuck with the packing and upload - that'll teach me to keep plugging at things till I'm beyond tired. Hopefully, should be fixed now.]

A womans work is never done…

After a request from Silly Tuna over at NewRetro I thought I’d have a go at putting together a hi-vis version of War Twat. The original request was for a version of the game that could be played by folks who are colour blind, but I figured whilst I’m at it I’ll go the whole hog and do a high contrast version of the game.

It would have been a five minute job just to make a few changes but with the visuals tightly bound to the game then some changes throw the balance right off. Essentially, I had to tinker with War Twat so that you could actually see more things but it was still War Twat.

The game should, in theory, still be as difficult and blinding as ever. Or at least, I hope so. If not, it’s back to the drawing board. Anyway, none of this will make it into the next official version for a while so in the meantime if you want a version of War Twat that’s high on contrast and low on polyunsaturates then clicketh the linketh below:

War Twat Hi-Vis Version

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War Twat Bug Fix

August 16, 2008 · Filed Under Development Log · 3 Comments 

Uploaded a bug fix for War Twat which caused the player to magically disappear and lock the game up on death. Something I’ve been trying to trace since launch but couldn’t work my head round quite what I’d done to cause it.

Whilst putting a teabag in the bin earlier, I had an epiphany and saw the light. One 30 second fix later and she be sorted. Which is nice.

Also, if only to stop Tim asking, I’ve changed the links over to zip files. Anyone cheekily hotlinking to the direct downloads will be alright for a bit as the .rar files are still active.

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