My working life at is regularly punctuated by 100 minute trips up and down the Midland Mainline service to St Pancras and dashing across London taking meetings about a number of forthcoming projects. There’s a crazy amount of plates spinning at the moment, but the most immediate upcoming event is the launch of this years’ [...]

We’re deep into production on GameCity 6 at the moment,of which more later, but I wanted to tell you about another festival I’m working on with the extraordinary Andrew Missingham at the South Bank Centre this September. VisionSoundMusic is a new festival which was originally pitched to me as a ‘festival of sync’ed music’ some months [...]

Off up to Newcastle next week to the brilliant Gamehorizon conference (at least, it was the last time I went which was a few years ago…) – looking forward to catching up with a few people. Back next Thursday then for another instalment of GameCityNights, which this month features the amazing Chris O’Shea who does [...]

Simon Parkin has posted an extensive write-up / interview of the ‘all things must pass’ gig Jimmy and I did at the National Archives recently. Following the comment thread responses is illuminating, highlighting the emotional weight that this subject holds for (some) people and the nuance we need to express rather better than we are [...]

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 [...]

Busy week coming up… On Wednesday 27th April, Jimmy and I are part-reprising the National Archive talk at the Institute of Engineering and Technology lecture series. There’s refreshments (?!) from 6.30 and the show starts at 7. You’d be most welcome and can book free seats here. As if that weren’t enough, next Thursday 28th [...]

…Jimmy and I are talking and we’d love it if you came along.   Sadly, they left the name of our talk from the description on the site, but ‘All Things Must Pass…’ is shaping up to be fun…    

The coming weeks are quite busy with speaking gigs – it’d be great if you can make it along to one / some / all…   March 27th Jakub Dvorsky @ GameCityNights Jakub (Samarost / Machinarium/ Kooky) Dvorsky is one the most humble and generous speakers we’ve ever had to the festival, so it’s great [...]

Jakub Dvorsky is coming back to GameCity in March to headline the Nights gig on the 25th. I’m really excited about this as not only is he showing Amanita’s TWO new projects for the first time ever, but he’s also going to be talking about the work he’s done as art director on this… Kooky, [...]