Here's May's 'Coming Soon' update on future projects and events:

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In which I tell a cautionary tale of my callow youth, and the galaxy’s last best hope for peace...

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As I write this on a sunny Sunday morning, I have no doubt that my colleagues at Eidos Montreal are either toasting the dawn or still sleeping off their hangovers in Vancouver; and so it is with great pride I can announce that our game Deus Ex Human Revolution won big over at the Canadian Videogames Awards last night.

DXHR takes home five maple leaf trophies, including Best Console Game, Best Audio, Best Game Design, Best New Character and my personal fave, Best Writing.

It was great to be part of the team and very rewarding to see our work get the accolades it deserves. Thanks to everyone for their support!

Here's April's 'Coming Soon' update on future projects and events:

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Another mad-busy week, but I'm capping it with an apperance at the Alt.Fiction festival in Leicester this weekend (April 14th-15th).

I'm proud to be a guest of honour, joining author Ken MacLeod and a whole bunch of other folks in two days of panels, seminars and chats about science fiction, fantasy and horror writing. The event is taking place at the Phoenix Square venue from 11.00am to 8.00pm on Saturday and 11.00am to 2.00pm on Sunday. 

I'm giving a GoH talk tomorrow about story in videogames from 7.00pm in Screen One; earlier in the day at 3.00pm I'll be on a panel about writing science fiction, along with fellow Black Library author Graham McNeill and a number of other writers.

You can learn more at the festival website Here.

This weekend from the 6th to the 9th, it is Olympus 2012, the British national science fiction convention (aka Eastercon) wherein folks gather from around the world to talk about SF and fantasy books, and much other stuff. This year's is going to be a biggie, with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin leading the guest list; it's going to be interesting to see how the influx of attendees drawn by the TV series merge with the regular lit-fan crowd... The registration numbers have been high, so much that the event has been capped, so if you don't have a ticket now, you won't be able to get in.

As ever, I can't just slope along to one of these things without doing something, so I'm going to be appearing on a few panels over the weekend. If you'd like to come along and say hi, my schedule is under the cut:

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This month’s R&W column is about the mathematics of elation and despair.

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I've been buried in work for quite some time, but next month I'll be rising to the surface a couple of times for two events where I'll be talking about, oh, lots of stuff.

First up is Olympus 2012, this year's annual UK Eastercon over the weekend of April 6th-9th, out at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Heathrow, near London. I'm doing a bunch of panels, including ones about Doctor Who, Star Trek, videogames, and also a gameshow. Which will be interesting. Check out the event website Here.

Then, over the following weekend of April 14th-15th, I have the great pleasure of joining SF author Ken MacLeod as guest of honour at Alt.Fiction in Leicester; the event is a festival for writers and readers of SF, fantasy and horror, and I'll be there to give a talk about writing for videogames, and to take part in a panel about being an science fiction author. Visit the festival website Here.

Last night was the BAFTA Video Games Awards, a night of champers, tasty food, hilarity and the bittersweet tang of disappointment. Deus Ex: Human Revolution was up for four gongs but sadly we didn't bring home any gold; but I had a great night despite that, and if you'd like to watch us not winning stuff, you can check out the videos at the BAFTA website here or the highlight show on Challenge TV (Sunday at 11pm, Monday at 9pm).

This month sees the 5th anniversary of the founding of the Eidos Montreal games studio, home of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the upcoming Thief 4 and other secret stuff we can't yet talk about. I'm pleased to have been a part of EM's success over the last few years and I hope to continue working with them for many more to come.


As part of their celebration of this important milestone, the team have put together a special behind-the-scenes video tour hosted by Elias Toufexis, the voice actor behind Deus Ex: Human Revolution's hero Adam Jensen, and you can check it out at the EM official website here.