It’s been an insanely busy few weeks leading up to the festival launch, and now I’m about to head down to Brighton for the Annual Develop Conference. This year, Jimmy and I are trying out some new preservation ideas – a few of which we kicked around with the National Archives folk earlier this year. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week, Dr Jimmy, Tom from the NMM and myself travelled down to Kew, having been invited to deliver a talk there about our work on the National Videogame Archive, which is one of the core projects we’re working on at present. The whole thing was organised by the brilliant people at the National Archives, [...]

Having shipped GameCity 3 and learnt a huge amount about accessibility, informal learning and what the whole festival is really about, I’m of a mind to move quickly into new projects, not least of which is what we do with GameCity… Unusually, the future of the event has come into focus incredibly quickly this year. [...]