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18th February 2012
We may of failed in our operation to keep this news feed filled with interesting posts…Sorry! It’s not that nothings happened tho, if you follow the twitter stream you’ll be bang up to date with everything .
If not what have you missed? Hopefully if you on this site you would of headed over via something related to our cocktails/coffee, our THQ supported Saints Row 3way appeared and has caused horrific hangovers…Sorry…Again.
Our coffee is also live! www.firebox.com/product/5077/9-Bit-Mega-Coffee with a massive thanks to Firebox and our chums over at Insert Coin Clothing.
16th January 2012
New Year – Similar Plan!
Firstly a massive thank you to everyone that supported us this past year, from the VIP’s that spend money in the bar, through to people just looking at our drinks on-line and sharing them.
This year the plan is to do everything we did last year but on larger scales, so expect more drinks, more events and later this month the belated launch of the ’9 bit mega coffee’ the packaging is in the building and the samples are being sent out so once it’s listed we’ll be spamming those links.
The bar menu is also seeing a revamp so if there’s any requests for certain drinks get them in using Twitter, Facebook, Contact form below or go old fashioned and post us a letter.
29th December 2011
We teamed up with our friends at IGNUK to offer a tie-in drink for added New Years Eve carnage the IGNition
You can get the full details over at IGN here
Happy New Years and try to drink responsibly!
24th December 2011
Guardian Cocktails
Our cocktails are a bit like public transport, you wait ages for one then loads turn up at once, well 6 to be precise. If you haven’t seen the piece as part of the Guardian’s ‘Games of the Year’ coverage we created 6 cocktails based on their top choices, you can read the piece here
These have been re-ran by The Drunken Moogle and appeared on numerous other sites without us really knowing (Memebase, 9Gag, Reddit, Joystik)
A couple of these will be sneaking their way onto the new menu next year!
21st December 2011
New Years Resolution: Website TLC
We’ve redesigned, tweaked and built a new system, the next step is keeping the content rolling and bringing you content each day with more news, events details, cocktails and guest columns.
Propaganda!
December the 10th saw Loading back on the road to visit our friends @IGNUK and support the Capcom community day. As part of this adventure the kind folks at Game Over Clothing rush jobbed me a hoody to help promote the cause and promote our ever loving sponsors Capcom, Ubisoft, Turtle Beach and EA. We are getting ‘real’ hoodies printed in the new year as well as something ‘hall of fame’ related for all the people who’ve sunk the Loading shot sets.
IGN Fridays!
Friday saw us pay a visit to IGNUK HQ to make them some cocktails and play a bit of Mario Kart 3DS, after coming a respectable 2nd in battle mode, IGN were left with enough booze to see them through to Christmas. Keep your eyes peeled for a link up in the new year.
Cocktails!
It’s been a while since our last tie in, why?! Well with different events the two we’ve had in the pipeline haven’t seen the light of day but there may be some DLC tie-in shenanigans happening soon. We’re also busy crafting not 1 but 6 cocktails as part of the Guardian Gamesblogs games of the year.
Coffee!
After countless meetings and quotes we finally found a company that could match our demands for both quality and our mini budget to print our retail packaging for the 9 Bit Mega Coffee, this will be going live in the new year and will be available through online retailers and ourselves in the new year.
26th November 2011
London!
On the 10th of December we’re proud to announce we’re making a cameo appearence at Capcoms Christmas Community Event. If your signed up to go you’ll not just get to play some of their upcoming titles, you’ll also get one of our Capcom ‘G and T virus’ cocktails on the house! You can sign up here if your interested in heading down.
24th November 2011
Skyrim! So a small game called Skyrim came out to universal acclaim, well except for this piece which nobody here can work out if it’s Trolling or a genuine piece. Let us know what you think: Read it here.
Either way it must be good as most of our regulars are missing presumed killed by Dragons.
3-5th November 2011
Explay
Explay Interactive festival was a new eventto promote all the great companies and gaming industry we have hidden away down here.
Set over three days the event saw both companies being mentored in Boot Camp, a 48 hour Games Jam, a number of speakers, Keynote speeches from Dr Richard Wilson of Tiga, Ian Livingstone OBE (The co-creator of Games Workshop and self appointed guardian of Lara Croft) and to close Paul Taylor of Mode 7 games producer of Frozen Synapse.
Somehow we snuck onto the list of sponsors and laid on our gamer coffee for all the attendees over the weekend as well as installing a mini cocktail bar for the event, as part of this we created a cocktail for each of the 12 companies attending Boot Camp.
If your based in the south west I can’t recommend the event enough for next year!
26-29th October
So when we dragged ourselves away from Star Trek resource management games and Nerf Wars we did make some cocktails, for those not in the know, we didn’t know until earlier this year GamesCity is an event focused on the culture of games, it’s been called the ATP of video games which I think is the best description.
While we were their we made plenty of Ocarina and Bioshock cocktails as well as adding a few more names to our celeb filled hall of fame shot set list.
It wasn’t just our drinks we brought to Gamecity, our friends at Turtle Beach pimped all the terminals in the cafe with X12 headsets so people could game in audio heaven and Ubisoft supported our Trackmania 2 fastest lap competition.
We were also kindly joined by two parts of IGNUK’s team, namely Stuart Reid and GMA award winner Keza Macdonald, they were kind enough to firstly remember our names and give us a great shout out on their latest podcast: here.
We’ll be paying them a visit at the IGN stranghold in London to make a few cocktails and coffee so expect Loading to grace the site at some point soon! 
25th October 2011
This week saw us take our brand of gaming drinks on the road to Nottingham, Mr Beyonce made a rare appearance to help run the bar, while there we were based at Interface Cyber Cafe. This meant went thinks went quiet in the early hours we got a chance to get our game on, which I never get to do especially when it’s PC based.
It was during this playing something magical occurred, we were introduced to one of the nerdiest games I’ve played but also one of the best.
Our least favourite magazine PC Gamer – We still haven’t forgiven them for calling our ‘Deus Ex on the beach’ a ‘pathetic pun’. They may not know a good drink when it hits them but they have done a great feature which covers it better than I could. Read it here.
Give it a purchase get some friends round and give it a sample!
