This guest lecture was from Sony/Evo who are a popular games studio developing games for the Playstation 3. Their popular titles include Motorstorm and World Rally Championship, both for the Playstation series of consoles. Evo explained the process of one of their games, some job descriptions and also CV/interview help.

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Todays guest lecture was from Paul Hollins who works in the university. He worked for Midas in the early years who are responsible for publishing Dynasty Warriors 2, Warriors of Might and Magic and Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2. Paul told us about what life as a publisher is like and some insider information about the industry.

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Today the guest lecture was about health and safety at a Heinz factory. He explained what rules they have to abide by and how strict they must be in order to legally allowed to operate. The lecture was surprisingly interesting considering the topic.

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Todays guest lecture was from codemasters who are one of the oldest british game developers. They are based in Warwickshire and are responsible for classics such as the Dizzy series, Micro Machines and the Collin McRae Rally series. The guys from Codemasters were ex Bolton university students that had started working there and explained the structure of Codemaster and gave hints about writing a good CV.

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AngelsDen are a network of business angels who lend money to people who are starting businesses that need help starting up. Cameron came to tell us about what they do and to explain business angels in general. He explained the process of attempting to obtain funds and how to and how not to go about it.

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