he bespoke peripheral, and in particular looking at Wii Fit. It’s interesting to write for a magazine so ..er..’design’ centred, particularly because it start to question any assumptions you might have as to any shared understanding of what ‘design’ even means. Looking forward to writing more for DW, and in particular working hard to understand [...]

Bobbie and Aleks from the Guardian are hosting the inaugural Guardian GameCamp event on May 3rd. Built around the BarCamp model of the audience making the content on the day with drop-in drop-out sessions, it looks like it’s going to be great fun. As they describe it themselves, “..The objective is simple: to talk informally with like-minded people [...]

I’m going to be talking at the Gamehorizon Conference in June, in the illustrious company of some gaming folk of rather more importance than myself. Having not been to Gamehorizon before (this is the first year), but having been bought lunch by its organisers, I can testify that they’re almost impossible to actually see, such is their [...]

Margaret’s post just reminded me that I should mention this too. I’m also a juror for the 2008 indiecade festival, which came over to visit us at GameCity last year and will be returning this autumn. Indiecade 2008 is currently accepting submissions for the 2008 festival, but you need to hurry up – as the opportunity closes on April 11th.What excites [...]

 The second sequel that is the next GameCity festival has started in churn into action. Things are already going splendidly, if a little frantically. Every year we attempt to get more organised and every year some new variable is thrown up to prevent us being *quite* as organised as we’d like to be. Anyway – some great attendees [...]