May 2013
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Well, that’s it for another year. The Omegathon 2013 has come to a close.
But before we announce the winner, we’ve got to cover that final game of the semi-finals first.
Our two finalists were:
Andrew Lappin
Ross Coleman
Congratulations to the two of you; and commiserations to Keith Johnston and Jamie Newton.
Now then, on to the Grand Final.
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So, how do we top...
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Well…we done derped.
To explain: after we saved the four vehicles to one save file for the final Omegathon Semi-final game, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, we realized that each player is forced to sign in with different profiles for multi-player, no guests, where they are unable to access the blueprints for other profiles.
In short, we should have tested this.
Since we couldn’t...
April 2013
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We’re getting close, people. We just have two rounds to go of this years tournament, so let’s quickly go over the results of the quarter finals first.
Our two unfortunate drop-outs are:
Stewart Pitt
Scott MacIver
Better luck next year guys. This does mean that our four semi-finalists are:
Keith Johnston
Andrew Lappin
Jamie Newton
Ross Coleman
Result charts for both rounds...
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Not too long ago, in a union not too far away, the Loser’s Bracket was held. Here is the outcome.
We have two winners of the Loser’s Bracket: Ross Coleman and Stewart Pitt. Congrats to these two for successfully selling out for the sake of potential glory.
So, our six quarter-finalists are:
Keith Johnston
Andrew Lapin
Jamie Newton
Scott MacIver
Ross Coleman
Stewart Pitt
The...
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So, we have our winners of the four teams so far for the Omegathon, but that doesn’t mean we’re done with letting people in to the Quarter-Finals.
Welcome to the Loser’s Bracket, where we give either those who didn’t succeed in the group stages; or those who never entered; the opportunity to jump in and take their place in the Quarter-Finals…at the cost of their...
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After some infuriating mishaps with Hogs of War and the lightning round that was Crash Bash, the final round of this year’s Group Stages comes to a close.
Which means, we have some winners now.
The score tables will be after the jump as always, but I’ll announce the group winners here first:
TM01’s winner is Keith Johnston
Team Tooie’s winner is Andrew Lappin
Team 3...
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The fourth and final round of the Omegathon group stages is almost upon us. Time for us to reveal the penultimate game for our four groups.
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Say, remember when we played Worms last Omegathon? We do, and so does our Youtube channel. As things currently stand, we’ve yet to re-use a game from a past Omegathon, so we went with a game that ripped off Worms 3D before Worms 3D was a...
March 2013
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Cars were flipped, questions were answered, round 3 of the ‘Thon was played.
One rule that was decided by our president this week that I should highlight: If you do not attend a group stage round and do not have someone to take your place; or if you purposely/excessively dick about, you will be scored zero points. Luckily, the latter has not yet come up yet.
Also, if there’s a...
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Week five three of the Omegathon, so time for a new set of games. What’s game five going to be?
Well…
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Released back in 1998, Colin McRae Rally gave you vehicles and racetracks from the 1998 World Rally Championship season, all lovingly promoted (and advised during development) by the late Colin McRae.
In other words, your standard licensed racing game.
Til then.
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Well, that’s our N64-themed round complete. Let’s go over the scores.
Two things first though:
After some discussion afterwards, it was decided that not finishing the stunt run track in Wave Race would result in a DNF and a drop to last. If multiple people got DNF in a group, then the scores would be brought back in to play. EDIT: Some issues regarding the implementation has meant...
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Round 2 of the Omegathon is tomorrow, assuming we don’t screw up and force another week delay…
So, what will we be doing for the first of our two games?
Well…
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This announcement is for your eyes only.
The game based off of the movie of the same name is considered many things. The grand-father of console-based FPS’; one of the few licensed games to be...
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Well, that’s round 1 finally out of the way. Now all that’s left is to reveal the results of the first two games.
So it is known, scoring is as follows:
1st place: 4 points
2nd place: 3 points
3rd place: 2 points
4th place: 1 point
Scores after the jump.
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Please remember your team names. It makes things easier in calling everyone together in the future...
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Meet the Committee
For those of you who weren’t at the Gaming AGM today, I’m sure the main thing that you’re wondering from it, alongside a few other things, is the new committee for the next academic year. So, here is the 2013/14 Gaming committee.
President: Gordon Crabb
Vice President: Amy McNellis
Secretary: Scott MacIver
Treasurer: Justin Russel
Congratulations to our four new committee...
February 2013
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It’s that time of the year again. The Omegathon 2013 is almost underway!
Regular Omegathon competitors will know that we tend to post one of the games for each round up here on the blog the day before the round, which will be no different this year. So, what will be our first game for this year?
Well…
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Bet you didn’t see that one coming, did you?
Odds are, you...
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Tournaments. Tournaments Everywhere.
First post of 2013, start!
As you probably guessed from the title (and heard if you were present at our last meeting), we have two tournament-based events coming up.
Firstly, on February 20th, we are collaborating with the RedFrogs group to bring about a Halo 4 tournament. You will be competing in groups of four (we’ll assign you to a group if you can’t drag some of your own...
December 2012
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Christmas Meal 2012
It’s almost Christmas again, so its about time we all got together for a night of stuffing our faces with enough food to last us a week.
We will be going to Ma Camerons after our regular meeting on December 12th. The meal will cost £14.99 per person and will require a £5 deposit from all people who wish to attend, which will be collected at our next meeting on December 5th (the one that...
November 2012
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Playstation Celebration
Sony’s own mascot fighter, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, hit UK shelves just yesterday, so we figured we might as well give it an impromptu tourney this upcoming Wednesday, just like what we do on occasion with Super Smash Bros.
For those with their heads under a rock, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale takes characters from some of the biggest franchises to grace the Sony...
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The Christmas Rush
Been a little while since we’ve said anything here, I apologize for that. Best get a quick catch-up done then.
First off, the results of Party Marty’s Mario Party Party. The final result of our charity drive was an amazing $850 (about £535)! Thank you to everyone who participated and/or donated to this worthy cause. You can still catch the whole thing in several parts on our TwitchTV...
October 2012
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64-bit Charity
Just a few small updates here this time.
First off, a big thanks to everyone who attended our Röcktöbërfëst event. You guys helped us raise £190.15 for Special Effects, which is awesome!
Secondly, a reminder that after its warm reception last week - and demand for return - we will have a Nintendo 64 set up for playing this week. We (well…I) only have two official controllers for it though,...
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Röcktöbërfëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëëst!
After a year’s absence, RGU Gaming’s Rock Band based event, Röcktöbërfëst, will be making its return this Saturday (October 6th) on the Ground Floor of the Union.
As ever, Marty’s insanely massive amount of Rock Band songs (it’s now passed the one thousand song mark!) will be available for playing throughout the day, ranging from the songs that always sound awesome to...
September 2012
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RGU Gaming 2012-13: We're back, baby!
A new semester, a new year, and the return of one of RGU Union’s oldest societies. As of this Wednesday, September 26th, we will be back on with our regular meetings on the second floor of the RGU Union from 4:00 PM on-wards.
First off, lets just re-tread some ground in hopes of some new members having already found this blog (we did advertise it a little at Freshers). The RGU Gaming...
August 2012
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Fiendlord: A Blatant Advertisement Review
Since he has asked us a few times to and with the release of his second book being tomorrow, what follows now is a review of Ceri ‘Curry’ Rowland’s first book in his Undying Night series, Fiendlord.
Well, it’s not as if we have much else to post on here at the moment,
Fiendlord follows Azred Ferla, a mage warrior within the knights of Garlina who has trained to fight...
Olympic Decathlon Results
And so, the day of gaming icons competing in the UK has come to a close, with a winner emerging as the RGU Gaming Olympic Decathlon Champion.
In the Bronze medal position, we have our own President, Nic Aplin. In the Silver medal position, we have Garath Watt. In the Gold medal position, we have…well…me, Stuart Wink
Special thanks to everyone who participated in the events, as...
July 2012
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RGU Gaming Olympic Decathlon
As our own little way of marking the coming of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Gaming Society will be running its own Decathlon on Tuesday, August 7th from 2:00 PM onwards.
For this we will (naturally) be selecting ten individual events from Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, where points will be handed out in accordance to how well you do...
June 2012
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Team Fortress 2 Steam Party
On Wednesday 13th of June we will be playing Team Fortress 2 on Steam. We expect to play from 7:00pm until midnight, but can play until we get bored should we want to.
Team Fortress 2 should be familiar to all of you. It’s free-to-play and runs on Windows and Mac, so if you have a computer and an internet connection then you have no excuse not to play. If you need some help getting set...
May 2012
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The End-of-Year Advertisement Bonanza!
Another year done and dusted. That’s all for our regular gaming meetings til September people.
Now I’m sure you’re wondering “Stuart, where am I going to get my weekly dose of Gaming Society goodness from?” If you are, you might want to get a doctor to see about that… Otherwise, here’s a rundown of some of the things our individual members have that you...
April 2012
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AGM Aftermath
So, the AGM has been and gone with minimal fuss. Best to announce the committee for the next year, I suppose. The committee for Gaming 2012-2013 is as follows:
President: Nic Aplin
Vice President: George Lawie
Treasurer: Lynne Buchan
Secretary: Stuart Wink
So, no real change outside of a new Vice President. Commiserations to those who applied and didn’t get a spot.
No changes were made...
Spring Cleaning
With Spring now in full swing, it’s about time we cleaned up things around the society. First off, the committee. It’s time for our AGM meeting.
The Annual General Meeting is where we vote in the committee for the next year of the society, as well as suggest your ideas for changes to make to the society’s constitution. I’m sure many of you who are on our mailing list...
Order No. 270
Dobryĭ vecher.
As some of you may know, we’re holding a LAN party on this saturday (07/04/12). For those interested, the game list is this:
UT 2004
TrackMania:Nations Forever (free at http://trackmaniaforever.com/ )
Rise of Nations
Team Fortress 2 (If we have enough people)
Battlefield 2
Left 4 Dead (1 & 2)
Armagetron Advanced (free...
March 2012
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Results
Well, that’s it. We’re done. The Omegathon 2012 has now come to a close and its unwilling victorious competitor has emerged. Our winner is…
Keith Johnston
Congratulations to our winner and comiserations to our runners-up and their now destroyed dignity. Particular comiserations to 2nd-place Scott MacIver, for coming so close to victory for the second year running.
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You guys should all know the drill by now. I announce the first of our three games to make your day a little bit better/miserable. So, without further ado…
Released in 2004, Pikmin 2 saw Captain Olimar return to the planet of the Pikmin (i.e. Earth) with new employee Louie to repay their companie’s huge debt. As well as abolishing the original’s 30-day time limit, it brought...
Results
Well, what a day that was. Trolling was done, death threats were given, controllers were screwed up, back-up games were required and a 3-way tie-off happened. Rather eventful if you ask for me.
Anyway, to announce our unfortunate losers. The two who did not make the semi-finals are Julie Duncan and Niall Richardson. this leaves our semi-finalists as:
Keith Johnston
Becca Petrie
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So now we enter the quarter final stage of our tournament. So, what games do we have in store for you this time?
Yes, that was plural. The quarter final stage shall have three games for you to compete in. We will split the six finalists in to two groups of three and the lowest scoring competitor in both groups will be knocked out.
So, here’s the first of three.
There’s…not...
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Results
Now that you have all fully embarrassed yourselves, it’s time to confirm to you all the winner of the losers. The winner of the Omegathon’s Loser Bracket is Julie Duncan.
But some of you might now be asking “Stuart, you Herculean exemplar, how can someone who was not in the group stages of the Omegathon win the Loser Bracket?” To this I say…Pres’...
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Right then, you bunch of failures…
This is the week of the loser’s bracket, where we give you all one last chance to get a spot in the next round at the cost of the last shreads of dignity you may still have. What hoops will you all be jumping through? Well…
Released in 2010 as a launch title for the Xbox 360’s Kinect peripheral, Dance Central is, simply put, your...
Final Results
With the group stages now over, let’s have a look at the final scores. The group winners are the ones highlighted.
Congratulations to our five group winners. To those who didn’t win, you still have one more chance to get through…at the cost of your dignity. Next week’s meeting shall consist of the Omegathon Loser’s Bracket, so wait til next week to...
February 2012
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Week 4 Game Announcement
We now enter the fourth week of the 2012 Omegathon. So, how do we carry on from the worm-shooting, pill-munching, egg-rolling chaos we’ve had so far? Here’s how.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 was released back in 2008 for the Xbox Live Arcade and involves piloting your ship about a 2D playfield and shooting anything else that moves. Sounds simple, right?...
Week 3 Results
3 weeks down, not much left to go. Let’s have a quick recap of the scores.
We have the Billy Hatcher gameplay recorded, so we’ll be thinking of what to do with that one. We weren’t able to record the Sonic the Hedgehog time trials though. We do have the times though.
Group the First
Natalie - 0:47
Becca - 0:35
Matthew - 0:36
Angus - 0:36
Group II: The...
Week 3 Game Announcement
Another week, another round of madcap capers as you play various games for our amusement. What do we have planned for you this week? Well…
Released back in 2003 by Sega’s Sonic Team division, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is a platformer where you have to roll eggs about, increasing their size by rolling in to fruit until they can be hatched.
For the...
Week 2 Results
Another week, another table of results. With rounds three and four now complete, lets have a quick update.
Unfortunately, we do not have any individual scores for either of our two games this week, we apologise for that. We also were not able to record the footage for either round, mostly due to the issues regarding our tempoary move to the first floor (though both games...
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Week 2 Game Announcement
We’re now entering week 2 of the Omegathon, so I bet you’re all itching to know what we’ve got planned to laugh at you over this week? Well, without further ado…
Released back in 2004 (2003 in Japan) as a joint project by Namco and Nintendo, Pac-Man vs. takes the classic Pac-Man formula and converts it in to a 3-on-1 multiplayer game. The team...
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Week 1 Results
And they’re off! Rounds 1 and 2 are complete, and the scores have been counted. Points are awarded based on your ranking within your group for that given game. 1st place recieves 4 points, 2nd gets 3 points, 3rd gets 2 points, last gets only one point and failing to turn up nets you 0 points. So far most groups seem to be fairly balanced, and should be entertaining to watch...
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Week 1 Game Announcement
During the previous Omegathons we’ve always announced what game we’re going to play on the blog the day before. This gives you a slight advantage if you keep up to date with us, but not enough time to practice extensively and ruin the competition. This year we’ll be doing something similar.
This year we’ll be playing two games per week, instead...
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Rock Band Videos
Managed to get two full videos of various people playing Rock Band last Wednesday, enjoy!
Walking on Sunshine
Painkiller
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The names are in and the groups have been drawn! You will be competing in the following groups, with the victor of each group progressing to the semi-finals. The group stage should last 4 weeks, with 2 games being played per week. After the group stage is over we will host the “Loser Bracket” - a second chance for competitors who didn’t make it through the first stage to secure...
January 2012
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2012: Year of the 'Thon
To start off, happy new year to all gaming society members. Welcome to the year of the Wii U, Mass Effect 3, Street Fighter X Tekken and the supposed end of the world. Could have been a worse year to go out on…
Now that’s out of the way, let’s get to the proper society stuff. The RGU Gaming society will return on the 1st of February, same time, same place. We will be starting...
December 2011
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'Tis the Season
Well how about that? We’ve already hit December. Time flies, eh? With December comes Christmas; and with Christmas comes the chance to stuff yourself with more food than you would ever normally have in one sitting. Witout further ado, it’s time to have the annual Gaming Christmas Dinner.
We’re collaborating with the Toast Appreciation Society (who are mostly just the same...
November 2011
2 posts
Discount Facebook
Just a quick few things to go over here.
Firstly, gaming will be on as usual tomorrow, despite the assessment week. Same time, same place, you all know the drill by now.
Secondly, the Union has started to give out key fobs for society members that give you some discounts on food and drink there. If you haven’t gotten one from either us or any other society, then you’ll need to...
Order No. 227
Dobryĭ vecher.
My good people, I come before you today, to address a very important matter, one I hear about so much these days.
The gaming society LAN.
“When is it?” I hear you cry. “Oh, that things still on is it?” I hear others say. Well, hold on to your hats, because that information is for me to know, and for you to know too.
*Queue Generic Epic Music*
12/11/11
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October 2011
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Solid Streaming
If you missed our meeting yesterday, then here’s a recap of what’s happening next week. We will be making a quick trip over to Solid Gold games centre over on Holburn Street. Solid Gold is a store that we have been supporting for a while now, giving a nice selection of both new and pre-owned games at reasonable prices. The staff have kindly agreed to provide Gaming Society members with...
