We just got word from Eurogamer’s Expo Community Manager that sadly today’s announcement of this year’s Expo won’t be visiting Leeds. Our thoughts are with the north this morning.
“We’re as disappointed as everyone else that we won’t be returning to Leeds this year, however, there are various factors involved which means it isn’t possible.
We’re keen to return to the North at some point so I’m sure we’ll be back.”
To be fair on them they just booked Earls Court, yeah, Earls Frikkin’ Court! So all those northerners need to make a trip down south it seems this year!
2010’s Eurogamer Expo event will be hitting up Earls Court London October between the 1st and 3rd of October (EXTRA DAY this year!)
"Earls Court is another step up for the Eurogamer Expo," commented Rupert Loman, Managing Director of Eurogamer Network. "Our 2009 event was a sell-out in advance of the show and while our philosophy continues to revolve around sustainable and organic growth, moving to a bigger venue with all the facilities it has to offer allows us to put on a fantastic event for even more gamers.”
Currently no word announced for the venue up north (Last year’s Leeds) but we have been assured that the northerners of the UK are going to get a slice as well. We’ve dropped our Expo contact a line so we should have a comment sometime soon!
[UPDATE We just got word that Eurogamer Expo 2010 will not be attending Leeds – sorry!]
See you there then!
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Xg News This Week: APOCALYPS3 NOW! A Top Secret BETA just turns into a blur and BAFTA Presenters announced!
The GAME BAFTA presenters have been announced for 2010. All the likeable faces of today’s TV popular culture will be strolling the Red Carpet on March 19th. Including a man who created a game character called Mario? Your guess is as good as ours!
- Ant and Dec
- Charlie Brooker
- Chris O’Dowd
- Dom Joly
- Edith Bowman
- Suzi Perry
- Tom Watson MP
- Shigeru Miyamoto
So get ready for the BAFTA Game awards taking place at the London Hilton on Friday 19th March and for the first time ever you can go about watching a live stream of the event at BAFTA’s official site!
The Bookmakers Victor Chandler have made the BAFTA Video Game Awards a betting sport! Well at least for GAME’s Game of the Year award anyway!
Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2 is the favourite with a 6/4 followed up by Mondern Warfare 2’s 9/4. Others include Assassin’s Creed II at 4/1 and the outsiders FIFA 2010 and SF IV at 33/1! (whack £100 on that and you’ll be having a fantastic night out, although we don’t recommend you do that in the slightest!)
“We’ve already seen huge interest from all over the world in this year’s award with people campaigning online for their favourite title,” said GAME’s Neil Ashurst.
and yes there is still time to vote for your winner! – vote now!
Legendary games producer to be given BAFTA membership at this year’s games awards
That’s right, in an move that will have UK gamers crying “FINALLY!” at the top of their voices, Shigeru Miyamoto is to be given a BAFTA fellowship.
For those who don’t know the name (shame on you!) Shigeru Miyamoto is the creator of such legendary franchises as Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Legend Of Zelda, StarFox, F-Zero, the list goes on!
“Shigs” (as he is known within the industry) will join such illustrious names as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Harold Pinter during this year’s video games awards ceremony at the Park Lane Hilton on March 19th. Of course, TFMX will be suited up and attending the awards this year and will bring you all of the other news from the night as soon as it breaks.
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Xg News This Week: Pancake Day Special with x10 updates, release dates and the Nominations for the Bafta GAME awards!
BAFTA has announced the nominations for the BAFTA GAME Award, with you, the gaming public, asked to decide who most deserves the fancy metal mask.
BAFTA GAME Award shortlist
Assassin’s Creed II
Batman: Arkham Asylum
The Beatles: Rock Band
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
FIFA 10
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Street Fighter IV
Uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves
Wii Sports Resort
Head over to the BAFTA website to cast your vote by clicking on the TV (screenshot above) with the game of your choice. Even if your not that bothered everyone that votes has a chance to win a TV!!!
The actual event will be taking place at the London Hilton on March 19, 2010 and broadcast live on the BAFTA website. Hopefully XG247 will be there to provide you guys live updates and reactions. Voting closes in 27 days 22 hours and………. probably more like 20 minutes and 32 seconds now as I’m a slow typer.
BAFTA have just announced the Nominations for this years GAME Awards, the awards will take place on Friday 19th March and we hope to be there.
The sequels are leading the way with Modern Warfare 2, Assassins Creed 2 and Unchartered 2 picking up the most nominations. All the details are after the link, there are a lot of them!
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Sam Fisher attended X10 this week and he was kind enough to give these really awesome screenshots to us but he said he won’t be back until April 16th when his game hits our Xbox 360’s.
Just click the link to see the full set.
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