College Students to Preview New Games

Game Live Events, which bills itself as the largest touring videogame event in the US, announced a 25-stop college campus tour that starts March 5 at Washington State and ends April 28 in Arizona. The tour will feature unreleased beta titles from several game makers for the Microsoft Xbox, as well as several PC games.

Students at the 25 college campuses will be among the first to see and try these new games. Game Live said in a statement that it expects to preview more than 20 titles from Electronic Arts, U.S. Army, Midway LucasArts, Vivendi Universal, Majesco, Sammy Studios, and Ubisoft.

Some of the games featured include: EA Sports' MVP Baseball 2005, Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Midway's Unreal Championship 2, LucasArts' Star Wars Republic Commando, and the US Army's America's Army: Special Forces PC game.

The organization is a touring game preview event, which features games for the PC and Xbox, and has hosted nearly 150 events since 2001. The company uses a system that allows it to have more than 40 games going simultaneously.

Admission to the events will be free and Game Live says there will be no limits on game play. Those wishing to find out more about the tour, as well as locations, can visit Game Live's Web site.