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 [...]

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, [...]

I’ve been away off grid for a week on holiday. Get back and discover that DoubleFine are doing the ‘From the Desk of” spot tomorrow evening… Hope you can make it – come and say hello if you do!    

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 [...]

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 [...]

Getting very excited about being able to get on with the first monthly event out of GCHQ, and particularly excited that the brilliant Hello Games are coming up to launch the season with us. I think this series of shows is going to act as a really useful prototyping ground for some of the things [...]