170-person, 24-hour, PC/Xbox multiplayer event

The forth GameCon multiplayer event is to take place in Dublin this
August at 9am on the 14th, to 9am on the 15th, although waiting the 24
hours is optional.

GameCon 4 has the potential to be the largest multiplayer computer
games event to have ever taken place in Ireland. It will take place in
the IMI Conference Centre in Sandyford, Dublin, and will be a ‘bring
your own PC’ event, console-only games do not need to bring their
consoles.

Games to be played include [for PC] FarCry, Call of Duty,
Counter-Strike (5v5 team tournament), Unreal Tournament 2004,
Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat (BF1942 mod), Battlefield Vietnam,
CC Generals, Warlords Battlecry 3, [for Xbox] Project Gotham
Racing 2, Rallisport Challenge 2, Dead or Alive 3, Soul Calibur 2, EUFA
2004 [aka FIFA 2004 with less teams], Top Spin, and Halo.

For both PC and console gamers, the entrance fee is 30 euro, signup and further details are available on GameCon’s website.

Commenting on the event, organiser, Travis Mack said, “This is an
event you don’t want to miss. This is your opportunity to prove to
the country that you are the number one Xbox or PC gamer in Ireland.
This will be the biggest LAN Ireland has seen this year, and possibly
ever”.

GC4 is organised by Jermain Williams, Travis Mack, Kenneth Darker,
Marcus Mooney, Philip Deegan, and Jeff Warren, and sponsored by
Microsoft/Xbox, EA, Nokia/N-Gage, GameStop, Elara Systems, Digtal
Jesters, and Alienware.

http://www.gameconvention.net/

Doom film stays with Irish director, as studio changes

General | 16/06/2004

Ireland as a filming location is now being rumoured:

Even after the film rights change to Universal Studios, Irish man,
Enda McCallion, is to still direct the Doom film as his first feature
length film. It’s to be produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and John
Wells.

McCallion shot his first film aged 16, and went on to study film at
the Royal College of Art in London. He has worked on advertisements for
Guinness owners Diago, and the band Nine Inch Nails.

Early last week the film studio Warner Brothers lost the rights to
the Doom film, at the time the games developer ‘id’ were denying a
deal with Universal Studios, although the film trade publications the
Hollywood Reporter, and Variety were saying other wise.

Variety has also reported the film is an adaptation of the upcoming
PC and Xbox game Doom 3. The script is apparently written by Dave
Callaham.

Set on a Mars space station, the sci-fi horror first person shooter
(FPS) game is currently without a firm release date, although some have
it pencilled in for a July 14 release.

Source: GamesIndustry.biz, Hollywood Reporter, RTE online