With just three months to go before the first World Cyber Games, which is something of an Olympics for computer games, professional gamers talk about that latest trend in the arena of digital culture: e-sport, making sport with computers. A game designer and veteran demo-scenester tells the fascinating story of how a subcultural movement became the talent factory for the game industry, and reveals the threads to current blockbuster games. Plus: 8-bit trackmasters, who move fluently between pop, game culture and digital lifestyle, present their game-sounds direct from retroland.

18.00 Screening: Lens Flare — Game Animations/Part 2



Feat: Warcraft III, Wip3out, Gran Turismo 2, Tekken Tag Tournament, Prince of Persia 3D, The Last Revelation, and many more.

Panel: Games Unlimited
With just three months to go before the first World Cyber Games, which is something of an Olympics for computer games, professional gamers talk about that latest trend in the arena of digital culture: e-sport, making sport with computers. A game designer and veteran demo-scenester tells the fascinating story of how a subcultural movement became the talent factory for the game industry, and reveals the threads to current blockbuster games. Plus: 8-bit trackmasters, who move fluently between pop, game culture and digital lifestyle, present their game-sounds direct from retroland.