This year GameCity – the UK’s biggest indie games festival – will be running for a mammoth 7 days, from 20th-27th October. Now entering its 7th year, the GameCity team have already announced some of the attractions for this year’s festival with a full lineup to follow in the run-up to the Nottingham event, but here are 7 things I’d personally love to see (some more likely than others).
1. Charlie Brooker to Judge the GameCity Prize
The desire of festival fans to see self-proclaimed gamer Charlie Brooker sit on the GameCity Prize judging panel has been knocking round the Twittersphere since last year’s festival, and since this year’s judges are still closely under wraps it remains a tantalising possibility.
The jury for last year’s inaugural GameCity Prize was drawn from a broad spectrum of figures outside of the game industry itself – ranging from musician Nitin Sawhney to...
1. Charlie Brooker to Judge the GameCity Prize
The desire of festival fans to see self-proclaimed gamer Charlie Brooker sit on the GameCity Prize judging panel has been knocking round the Twittersphere since last year’s festival, and since this year’s judges are still closely under wraps it remains a tantalising possibility.
The jury for last year’s inaugural GameCity Prize was drawn from a broad spectrum of figures outside of the game industry itself – ranging from musician Nitin Sawhney to...
- 5/6/2012
- by Emma O Sullivan
- Obsessed with Film
Sure, you can sample lots of the most intriguing and fun indie games today simply by inputting a URL into your browser's address field. But, no amount of typing will allow you to meet the code geniuses responsible for making them in person. Unless, of course, you're savvy enough to be going to Fantastic Arcade.
The video game portion of the Fantastic Fest indie cinema event will be showing off more than 25 indie games, many of them accompanied by the to Among the other games showing up in Austin will be the awesomely haunting "Limbo," the hilarious "Enviro-Bear 2000" and the controversial "Super Columbine Massacre RPG."
Organized by curators Mike Plante, Eddo Stern and Roger Erik Tinch, the programming basically assembles damn near every indie game that been's worth playing or talking about in the last few years into one room. What's even better is that the games will be playable...
The video game portion of the Fantastic Fest indie cinema event will be showing off more than 25 indie games, many of them accompanied by the to Among the other games showing up in Austin will be the awesomely haunting "Limbo," the hilarious "Enviro-Bear 2000" and the controversial "Super Columbine Massacre RPG."
Organized by curators Mike Plante, Eddo Stern and Roger Erik Tinch, the programming basically assembles damn near every indie game that been's worth playing or talking about in the last few years into one room. What's even better is that the games will be playable...
- 8/16/2010
- by Evan Narcisse
- ifc.com
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