Wanted: MI5 agents – see gaming world for details

Posted on October 28th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Commentary, Other gaming, humour.

Was wondering past wonderland and noticed this.

Looks like GCHQ (think the UK version of NSA) are hiring by putting ads in video games as …

A spokesperson for GCHQ described the potential recruits that it wanted to reach as “computer-savvy, technologically able, quick thinking.

But would potential recruits mum’s appreciate this? I mean if I was a parent I wouldn’t want little Johnny to be staying up past their bed time hours on end, trying to translate some cryptic message when they still gotta do their French homework!

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Video Games Live – Oh what a night!

Posted on October 24th, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Music, Other gaming, cool stuff.

On Monday 22nd October at the South Bank Royal festival hall, there was (IMHO) the highlight of the games calendar (no not Halo 3 release I’m afraid), the Video Games Live concert. Essentially it was an evening of classic video games music played live! Well to be more precise there was the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing game tracks.
It was hosted by the two creators Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall. Both are gaming composers who team up a couple of years ago to create an event drawing in music from the 30 odd years of gaming. So we got to hear music from Frogger, Tron, Halo, Metal Gear, Civilization, Chrono Cross along with others.

The night started with a group of us DS:london crowd meeting in hall of the South Bank center. I was really looking forward to this night given that I been meaning to check out the South Bank Center hall since it’s refurbishment, plus last year was just bloody good fun when it was at the Hammersmith Apollo. There was a nice cos play in the hall whilst we waited for the show to start. When it did, I think the sell out show (the first sell out show since the refurb) was enjoyed by everyone. The cencert was comprised of the cosplay comp (nice) ,the blind folded pianist’s of youtube fame (brilliant) who could play the tracks thrown at him at amazing speeds, the composer of outrun (was ok), a couple of stage comps (frogger and space invaders) along with just a whole bunch of tracks. My personal favorites was the Final Fantasy, War Craft, Halo and Tetris tracks. Simply amazing.

Can’t bloody wait for next year.

Tommy and Jack jump for joy

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Blog meetup…pt deux!

Posted on October 1st, 2007 by thiswayup.
Categories: Drinking, Wordpress, cool stuff, web 2.0.

Just for all you bloggers out there, the next meet up is this Thursday 4th of October from 8pm at the Churchill Arms (Kensington Church Street). More details and etc on Upcoming. Be there or be potentially disappointed from your night of unfufilled discussion and drinking which this night will contain. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

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