Games festival to return to Edinburgh in 2004

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After the success of last year's event and the realisation that Edinburgh is a great place to meet people and get drunk the organisers of last year's Edinburgh International Games Festival have decided to hold a bigger and better show this August.

"EIGF 2003 was an incredible success," according to Future Network CEO Greg Ingham, who is chairman of the EIGF 2004 committee. "However, we know there's much more we can do and in 2004 we're even more keen to use EIGF to demonstrate to the world that videogames are a significant and important part of today's culture."

An extra half day of conference time will bring the schedule up to a day and a half and personal presentations by some of the industry's leading creative minds will be open to the press and public alike. The popular exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, Go Play Games, will make an expanded re-appearance, once more satiating the public's appetite for things game-related.

"The additions to the programme will offer unique opportunities for the industry, the public and the press to gain a deeper understanding of the creative processes and skills required to make world-beating games," Ingham postulated.