What: Gam­ing (& Gad­gets!) Night
Where: CIL 2008, Jef­fer­son Room
When: Sun­day, April 6th, 5:30–8:00 pm
How much: FREE
Who: You and other peo­ple inter­ested in gaming

Aaron Schmidt and I have given a few gam­ing work­shops at past Com­put­ers in Libraries and Inter­net Librar­ian con­fer­ences. After the ses­sions we’ve opened up the room to any­one inter­ested in play­ing some games and/or learn­ing about gam­ing. It’s proven to be a pop­u­lar and really fun time, so this year Infor­ma­tion Today has turned the post-workshop game­play into a fea­tured event. With refresh­ments even!

We’ve assem­bled an impres­sive array of games!

Sys­tems: Nin­tendo Wii, Playsta­tion 2, and Xbox 360. We’ll also have two Nin­tendo DS handhelds.

Games: Wii Sports, DDR, Hotel Dusk, Gui­tar Hero III, Pro­fes­sor Lay­ton and the Curi­ous Vil­lage, Wario Smooth Moves, what­ever you bring, and Rock Band.

Since we’ll have three sys­tems going at once, we’re open­ing up the option of an hon­est to good­ness tour­na­ment with prizes. You prob­a­bly want to know which game, huh? Well, it’s up to you. Sign up in the com­ments on Aaron’s post or at a page we’ve cre­ated on the CIL08 wiki titled CIL08 Gam­ing Night to play Rock Band, Gui­tar Hero, or DDR. We’ll play whichever game gets the most signups!

In addi­tion, Chris Har­ris is bring­ing some mod­ern board games for some casual play (I may bring a cou­ple, too). Bring your own games, bring your lat­est shiny, new gad­gets, and we’ll see you Sun­day night!