Lots happening next week at the Season Three kick-off for GameCityNights. The release goes out in the morning, but I’m sure Chris wouldn’t mind me telling you that there are a lot of new regular features (house-band! Finally!), a brilliant headliner and we’re announcing three new projects that we’ve been working on for a long time… [...]

We’ve been toying with the idea for a while of creating a process / research blog for the GameCity project for a while now, and finally we’re having a crack at it. The lovely team at GCHQ are ticking the main sites over very nicely now, so there’s actually very little writing input I have [...]

I always forget to do this and end up with either a clutter of pinboard links, browser bookmarks or a .xls from Chris with *everything* in it… Mostly this year, people have been amazingly kind and the response to the prize has been nothing short of astonishing. We’re a very lucky festival…   Six. Media [...]

The first of a torrent of wrap-up posts about the festival, lest I forget everything that happened. Here’s Jimmy and I on an ‘early’ morning podcast with the brilliant Keza and Stu from IGN. 22:44 minutes of barely keeping it together can be heard here  

That nice bloke Andy Robertson has just published a group interview up on IGN about the absence of humanity in the public face of the games industry – something I’ve been banging on about for a while now. Indeed, if our work at GameCity is about anything, it’s about the fact that games are made [...]

Last Thursday evening we launched the sixth GameCity festival, announcing a  few special guests and generally moving into full-on production for the event. You can read more details at Eurogamer, The Independent and The Guardian.   Things are feeling a lot more solid already this year. I think we might be getting close to what [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]