A letter from Capcom has informed us (and just about every other major gaming press on Earth) about the upcoming Lost Planet: Extreme Condition launch party in San Francisco on January 11th. Compete in a huge multiplayer tournament for big prizes and the chance to play against the Lost Planet development team. The first 50 through the door get exclusive t-shirts, the rest just get lots of swag, nerd points and free food and drinks.

Space is limited so you have to RSVP via the Capcom community site, Neovenus Construction, username: Genesis and password: 111.

The party takes place Thursday, January 11th from 8pm - Midnight at the S.F Concourse Exhibition Center - East Hall in San Francisco, California. Have fun and someone grab me a shirt!

EVE Online developer CCP Games has updated the information for the EVE Online Fan Fest 2006, a yearly festival in Iceland where fans are allowed to meet, greet and party with EVE’s developers and other fans from around the world. Among presentations and roundtables where the devs showcase the upcoming changes coming for the rapidly growing MMORPG, there is also a feedback session, where members of the EVE team from all disciplines address questions and feedback from players on subjects such as PvP, agent missions (PvE), the future of EVE (expansions, etc), and many other elements involved with the game. One particularly neat event is a developer PvP match, where the QA team takes on the development team in a massive PvP grudge match. We’re of course on QA’s side.

EVE Online’s Fan Fest 2006 takes place in Reykjavik Iceland, November 9th through the 11th with passes, flight and hotel packages available through the EVE Online web store.

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The London Museum of Science has announced an upcoming exhibition covering the history of video games over the past 50 years of computer gaming. The exhibition will feature over 120 games on display and traditional artwork from some of gaming’s elite, including drawings from Shigeru Mitamoto and a playable version of Space War, considered to be the first computer game ever on the PGP-1 computer. The “Game On” exhibition will open October 21st, 2006 and run until February 25th, 2007 at London’s Museum of Science.

Read more: Video games exhibition at London Science Museum announced

Those Rockstar fans in or around San Diego on September the 28th will be lucky enough to see a presentation sponsored by Rockstar Games and IGDA San Diego, titled, “The Characters of Table Tennis“. Wolfgang Engel, author and senior developer will discuss the real-time graphic algorithms used in Table Tennis, as well as the shaders used to mimic skin, sweat, eyes, eyelashes, cloth and the various hair-types. The event will take place Thursday, September 28th at Qualcomm Auditorium in San Diego, California.

Read more: Wolfgang Engel presents the characters of Rockstar’s Table Tennis