Archive for June, 2006

Skillset Drinks Reception

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Everyone with a ticket for GAMES EDU 06 gets to come to the Skillset Drinks Reception.

Ian Livingstone (EIDOS) & Kate O’Conner (SKILLSET) will be presenting 4 UK Universities with their accreditation certificates, announcing their benefits package, and detailing the plans for 2006/7.

This will be followed by a drinks session and an opportunity to meet the rest of the UK’s top games educators.

Networking opportunities, a chance to share successes and mix contacts. 

 

New Speaker Announced

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Pixel-lab is proud to announce Charles Cecil has agreed to join the esteemed group of speakers at GAMES:EDU 06. 

Charles Cecil has been a key figure in the interactive entertainment industry for 25 years. He is currently operating as MD Managing Director for UK based company Revolution Software releasing such critical and commercial hits as Beneath a Steel Sky,  the Broken Sword series and more recently the Da Vinci Code . Charles is on the advisory panel of the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, and Develop Conference and regularly talks at events and to mainstream press about creative and commercial aspects of the video games industry. He is also a co-founded and remains a Director of Game Republic, an alliance of game developers, and is a Board member of Screen Yorkshire, a regional agency that supports film, television and interactive entertainment in Yorkshire.

Charles will be discussing his thoughts on a more flexible movie style approach to making games.