Edinburgh Games Festival - FightBox, Fable, More.. 6
TheNomad writes "This past Monday, the first ever Edinburgh International Games Festival was held. In the middle of the massive Edinburgh Festival cultural season, this is an interesting development for games and gaming. There's a review of the event over at Machinima.com, including details on Peter Molyneux's demo of Fable, the BBC's TV series/game, Fightbox, and other cool stuff." FightBox, a TV show which is "...a gladiatorial arena-style competition between virtual characters, created by members of an online community who compete... to get a chance of appearing on the show itself", is particularly interesting.
Important to note... (Score:4, Funny)
Sure, some coked-up media suit in Soho would be wetting themselves at the chance to merge broadcast TV with games culture, but the problem with that is for such a concept to work, they need to have a playable game. Instead, we get 'Quake on a 386' levels of sluggishness, piss-poor gameplay, and drab, unimaginative design.
Although I would GLADLY buy a beer for someone who manages to customize their fightbot with a 'Goatse' skin and get it broadcast on national TV.
Anyway, everyone KNOWS the best interactive 'gaming' TV in the UK is on Game Network after 11pm.