Exeposé Freshers' Week Events

As you may have seen from our delightful scroller, Exeposé are hosting a series of events during Freshers’ Week.

If you’d like to find out more about Exeter’s independent, student-run newspaper and website, please come along to as many as you like! Whether you’re a budding journalist or just a little curious, all are welcome.

If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to get in touch via our Exeposé twitter or Exeposé facebook pages!

Monday 16th September:

Meddle in the Media 
2:30:pm – 3:30:pm
M&D Room
Meet the heads of each student media, Exeposé, Exeposé Online, Xpression and XTV to hear how you can get involved.

Tuesday 17th September:

Meet the Editors
1pm – 2pm
M&D Room, Devonshire House
Meet the current Exeposé editorial team and hear about the best ways to be involved in your student newspaper.

News Team Induction
2pm – 2:45:pm
X-Media Suite, Devonshire House
Meet the Exeposé News editors to hear about how you can help make the headlines in the News section.

Exeposé Sport Kick About
5pm – 7pm
Rubber Crumb, Streatham Sports Park
Meet your Exeposé Sport editors over a game of football and hear about opportunities with Exeposé Sport this year.

Wednesday 18th September:

Exeposé Section Taster Stalls
Noon – 5pm
The Ram Foyer, Devonshire House
Come along and find out what each section is all about!

Thursday 19th September:

Meet the Editors 
Noon – 1pm
M&D Room, Devonshire House
Meet the current Exeposé editorial team and hear about the best ways to be involved in your student newspaper.

Exeposé News Team Induction
1pm – 1:45:pm
X-Media Suite, Devonshire House
Meet the Exeposé News editors to hear about how you can help make the headlines in the News section.

Friday 20th September:

Mega Media Marquee
Noon – 6pm
The Ram Beer Garden
Drop in and meet representatives from Exeter’s student media, set to answer any questions you may have about getting involved.

X-Media Social
6:30:pm – 11pm
The Ram
Join members of Exeposé, Xpression and XTV for an evening in the Ram.

Sunday 22nd September:

Activities and Volunteering Fair
10am – 4pm
Devonshire House, The Forum, The Great Hall, Northcott Theatre
Come find the Exeposé stall to sign up, ask questions and join in the fun!

This week in Games

BAFTA 2013 games nominees announced

53 games have been nominated amongst 17 categories. The most nominations goes to Journey with a massive eight nominations in Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement, Best Game, Game Design, Story Game Innovation, Online-Multiplayer and Original Music.  The Walking Dead follows with an impressive seven nominations which will be challenging Journey in four other categories. Far Cry 3 also has earned a lot of notices with six nominations including Best Action, Game and Game Design. The games with four nominations are Borderlands 2, Assassin’s Creed 3, The Room and Halo 4. Those with three include Black Ops 2, Dishonored, Mass Effect 3, Forza Horizon, The Unfinished Swan and Thomas Was Alone. The winners will be announced on March 5th at the London Hilton.

Picture by Laura Mary

Obsidian pitching new Star Wars  RPG game

Obsidian entertainment, creators of the Knights of the Old Republic series, are attempting to pitch a new RPG to Lucasarts, now owned by Disney. However, after the lack of success from the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic,  Obsidian instead want the game to take place in between episodes III and IV of the film series at the time the Jedi are being purged and the Empire are consolidating their power. It is reported that Obsidian designer and writer of several Star Wars comics, Chris Avellone has “come up with a really cool story”.

Bungie’s Destiny expects a Monday reveal

An alternate reality game on Bungie’s website hints at something on the way to announcing its next-gen project Destiny. To get the full reveal, the Bungie community have to work together to solve the puzzle on this game. As more people solve the puzzle together more and more information will be released. True to Bungie form, the number seven plays an important role. Could there possibly be a reveal on Monday?

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Valve founder Gabe Newell commenting on the recent layoffs

As many as 25 people have been fired from the company due not to performance issues but to a change in the company’s direction. Gabe Newell commented

“We don’t usually talk about personnel matters for a number of reasons. There seems to be an unusual amount of speculation about some recent changes here, so I thought I’d take the unusual step of addressing them. No, we aren’t canceling any projects. No, we aren’t changing any priorities or projects we’ve been discussing. No, this isn’t about Steam or Linux or hardware or [insert game name here]. We’re not going to discuss why anyone in particular is or isn’t working here.” 

Whether or not any more massive changes will be made remains to be seen

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Founder of Xbox claims last five years were “painful to watch”

A former Microsoft employee, who helped to create the original Xbox in 1999, explained in his blog that Microsoft has spent the last five years trying to turn the Xbox into a multimedia machine disregarding all the features and studios that made it great in the first place. Nat Brown further went on to explain that Microsoft lacks innovation and capitalising on new projects such as Kinect. The fundamental issue above all else is that Microsoft is just not making enough games.

He stated “Microsoft is living in a naive dream-world…Xbox just needs somebody with a brain and focus to get the product in order tactically before romping forward to continue the long-term strategic promise of an Xbox in every living room, connected to every screen.”

What do you think? Do you think Microsoft has gone the wrong way in making its console better or should it continue down the path it is going?

Alex Phelps, Games Editor