There’s a paucity of footage from 2006, so it was fun to see these which I’ve never seen before. Filmed in the Paul Smith cinema at the Broadway, where we staged a lot of the talks in year one. Alex and Mark came up and did MM’s first ever public appearance at our first ever [...]

Rob Fearon has just said some lovely things over on GameCity.org about our work which has reminded me why we are bothering to continue to turn up… “I like that if GameCity were a text adventure it wouldn’t be “You are in a dank, sweaty hall. To the left is a stinky man, to the [...]

Jimmy is chairing an event this Wednesday 18th May with festival alumnus (and noted videogame composers) James Hannigan and Richard Jacques at the Barbican. Professor James Newman, Bath Spa University, chairs a discussion on the role of music in video games: its evolution from the Commodore 64 era to the present day and its impact on [...]

Good news for fans of brilliant speakers – this month Jonathan Smith is going to making the journey up the M1 to headline Episode 5 of GameCityNights. I think Jonathan is brilliant, having first met him when I approached him to talk about the first LEGO Star Wars project at NTI* back in 2005. At [...]

The brilliant Stephanie Barish emailed to prod me to tell you that submissions for Indiecade 2011 are now open! Indiecade is a great initiative which has visited GameCity a number of times. They provide a brilliant platform for indie devs to showcase their work to a watchful world and have the best advisory panel seen [...]

It seems I’ve spent more time than I realised over the last month talking about Plants Versus Zombies with Andy Robertson of the rapidly growing GamePeople. It’s part of the new series of podcasts that Andy has recently instigated which are shaping up really well. I’m always a little suspicious of the ‘bunch of people [...]