A quick note – I’m going to be interviewing Karl Hilton, MD of Crytek UK during the FrontEnd of the next GameCityNights. “Karl will be giving a personal perspective on his experiences in videogame development in the UK, looking back over his experiences in a number of acclaimed studios. Touching on skills, operating cultures and [...]

Had an amazing night at the start of the new GameCityNights shows a week ago. It turned out to be one of the better attended, strangest, longest and increasingly enjoyable events we’ve held. A huge amount of hand-wringing from the GameCity team was entered into the following Monday morning as we lapse into our inevitable [...]

We’re just about to fire off with the next season of our Monthly series of ‘videogame’ shows over at Antenna, GameCityNights. When we started them last year we were hoping to have an easy-to-organise, lightweight hang-out once a month to share some interesting stuff and provide a safe-haven for geeks at least once a month late night [...]

Last Wednesday evening Dr Jimmy and I spent an evening Saving more videogames in the company of the lovely Game Central folk from ScreenWM and a modest – but high quality crowd of participants. These kind of gigs are the kind of thing I enjoy very much (it was indeed, at a similar event that [...]

Prof. Jimmy and I are crawling from our post festival darkened rooms to put in an appearance at the forthcoming Screen WM / GameCentral Meet ‘em up event on Nov 24th. We’re going to do all we can to make sure it’s a fun evening, and will be trying out some new presentation stuff on [...]

A month of talking… Spent a great day last Saturday at mediacampnottingham 2 talking about the festival, and more specifically our current schemes to open it up and make both the production and the participation immeasurably easier. Martin Wright did a generous write-up of the session over at his blog. MCN2 was a really exciting [...]

Jimmy and I are talking at the Bridport* page to Screen festival next month delivering “..a cocktail of music, action and cultural theory.” Details can be found here. *Long time followers of poorly attended fringe theatre may recall my last performance at the Bridport Arts Centre back in the late 90′s. This time, no-one will [...]

A strange meeting yesterday, in which some Consultants presented their findings from an initial research exercise examining the state of Digital Inclusion in Nottingham and how it can be improved. To begin with, they presented a context statement laying the a broad definition of Digital Inclusion / exclusion and what it could mean to the [...]

Last week, Jimmy and I went to West Bromwich to attend a Digital Archiving conference organised by the lovely Screen WM people. Excellent event, with truly inspirational talks from Tony Ageh, the Home of Metal project and the National Fairground Archive. Perhaps most encouraging was the realisation that many of the activities we’re currently engaged [...]

Sorry about this. After making a solemn pledge to start trying to document the events which happen around the festival and general adventures, the rolling out of the new GC site caused a good deal of confusion with where I was putting those. Currently, we’re in an insane crunch with the impending launch of the [...]