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By: Nick Evanson Aug 02, 2007

Edinburgh Interactive Festival to showcase UT3 and more

This year's Edinburgh Interactive Festival will be showing various forthcoming titles on the Games Screening Day (14th August) and the list is very impressive, with the likes of BioShock, Assassin's Creed and Unreal Tournament 3 making an appearance.

The current schedule of screenings includes:

How to get into the video games industry with Rebecca Thompson
Race Driver (Codemasters) by Jamie Firth/Firebrand
Guitar Hero III European Premiere (Activision) by Simon Byron
Ace combat 6 (Atari) by Lee Kirton
Unreal Tournament 2007 (Epic) by Mark Rein (they really mean UT3 - Ed)
Clive Barker’s Jericho (Cert 18) by Andrew Wafer
BioShock (Take 2) (Cert 18) by Adrian Lawton
Colin McRae: Dirt (Codemasters) by Guy Pearce
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (Eidos) by Chris Glover/FunCom
Assassin’s Creed (TBC) (Ubisoft) (Cert TBC) by Luc Duchaine (Brand Manager)
Consolevania World Exclusive (Cert 15)
Haze (Free Radical Design/Ubisoft) (Cert 18) by Dr Dave Doak
Rise of the Argonauts World Exclusive (Codemasters) - Video only
Turning Point World Exclusive (Codemasters) – Video only
Game Over – Animated video montage of classic arcade games by PES

On the subject of these viewings, here's what the screening director has to say on the matter:

“The Edinburgh Interactive Festival gives gamers their only chance to see the latest games for PC and console weeks or months before they hit the market,” said Brian Baglow, Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2007 screenings director. “They also get to chance to meet some of the people behind the biggest games in the world and find out more about the strange industry that creates hits like Grand Theft Auto, The Sims and Halo.”

“The 2007 festival Screenings promises to be the best yet. We have a fantastic line up of games and sessions. If you want to find out how to get a job in the games industry, see what you'll be playing this Christmas or meet the teams who are creating games for the latest generation of consoles, you have to be there.

“We've even got a session for non-gamers. If you've never, ever picked up a joystick, wouldn't buy a PlayStation 3 at gunpoint and are confused by kids spending eight hours a day wrestling with a joypad, come to the casual games screening. We'll open your eyes to a whole new world of wonder and fun - and give you something far more interesting to do with your home computer, mobile phone and TV controller.”

Sounds excellent and hopefully YouGamers will be there to report back on the screenings! Whee!!

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