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Very excited to announce that we're helping to organise a Retro Video Game Night at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. This promises to be a great night for retrogamers, the museum has everything from Pong to PS2 and everything inbetween! Museum owner Jason Fitzpatrick has even agreed to get out some of the rarer gaming consoles for the evening including the NEC PC FX and the original Neo Geo. If you have any specific requests for games or machines you'd like to play on the night then drop us an This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

You can 'Bring Your Own Booze' but due to this and the fact that there'll probably be a few titles not suitable for kids being played this is an over 18s only event. You'll also be able to order food from a nearby takeaway.

When:
Friday 25th October 2013, 7pm till late

Where:
The Centre for Computing History
Rene Court
Coldhams Road
Cambridge
CB1 3EW

Cost:
£5 Advance
£6 On the door

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Please take a moment to watch and 'like' this video. It's our competition entry to win a support slot on the Weezer Cruise next year and the video with the most likes on YouTube wins. We're all massive Weezer fans here at the British IBM to the extent that they're actually mentioned as an influence on our About page and various other bios that we have scattered around the Internet.

We were a bit late coming up with our entry but Dave popped round last weekend and within eight hours we'd manage to come up with a completed music video for Feeling. Unfortunately, due to the very short notice, Paul wasn't able to be in it. Don't worry though we used some clever scripting to work around his absence ;-)

We've actually got a rare bit of down time at the moment, Dave's doing his Game Jar stuff, Paul's off touring one of his plays and as for me, I've been working on a few new demos but I've also been co-creating a video game for the Raspberry Pi. If you've come along to our stand at any of the previous retro gaming expos then chances are you've already had a go on Lunar Panda. The game is based loosely on Lunar Lander (hence the name) and we're giving it away for free along with the source code. Feel free to check it out at: www.GimpySoftware.com

All the artwork for the game was created by Jose Cubero, who also did our animated music videos, God's Front Porch and Animal. I've been doing a lot of the music, sound effects and a little bit of coding here and there whilst Dean "Carmack" Edis has been flexing his brain on a regular basis doing all the "proper hard" stuff like animation, collision detection and some even lightning effects for the upcoming XBox/PC version.

Oh and check out the awesome trailer that Jose made for it!

We're going to be pushing our "tour bus" capacity to its absolute limit this October when we do our final expo and gig of the year in one fell swoop! We're happy to announce that as well as exhibiting at the Play Expo 12/13th October 2013 we shall also be playing the after show party at Fab Cafe. So along side our 8-Track, CRT TV, arcade machine and merch, we'll also be packing our guitars, amps, drums and Paul's energy drinks.

All very excited about the whole thing! Nintendo have even confirmed there attendance this year and Play Events are running a competition to celebrate: click here to enter!

Ryan Davis

We were struck by the news this week that Giant Bomb senior editor Ryan Davis passed away last week. After coming out of university, I started to get back into gaming in some haphazard way. After working a terrible job at a popular high street entertainment retailer, I was unemployed and bored, games were the best place to spend my time in between applying for jobs.

I remembered discussing video gaming with a friend a few months previous and the name Giant Bomb came up. Around Christmas of 2009 I started downloading their podcast. Every week since then I've been listening to the staff of Giant Bomb on my commute - Their personalities made the gaming part of the show secondary and hearing tales of food, Coke Freestyle machines and being misquoted by newspapers became my favorite parts of the show.

Listening to their recommendations made me pick up some games I would have never heard of otherwise. After recommending the podcast to Aidy (in an effort to get him into the 21st Century of gaming) he got just as hooked as I did. Wait until I tell him that Buckner and Garcia wrote a song about the site!

After hearing of his untimely passing at the age of just 34, many people said they felt as if they'd lost a friend. It’s going to be strange not hearing his voice whilst driving to work. Watching and listening to the material he was involved with inspired me to stop being lazy and to do more dumb stuff with video, podcasts and people.

We pass on our sincere condolences to Ryan’s wife, friends and family.

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