…because you needed another aggregation of links from the week.

Late last year, after several months of legal to-ing and fro-ing, the National Videogame Archive was launched at the GameCity 3 show. To coincide with the launch, myself and Jimmy conceived of a campaign during a late-night skype, the intention of which was to heighten the emotional and cultural intent of the whole project. The NVA [...]

The brilliant, brooding Mr Tom Armitage has just recorded an extensive interview with CBC radio addressing the themes of the recent talk he did at GameCity 3 – If Gamers ran the World. It’s part of the Spark show and can be heard in full here… It’s more likely than ever that in the coming [...]

A series of interesting interviews lined up, there should be a lot of developments at CultureTech this year. Like most of the rest of the blogging world though, I couldn’t really let this pass… Most likely though, is that the Americans simply got better presents. 6.6 billion friend requests were approved on FB in 2008. [...]

Been thinking lots about the Snowman (again) this year… Anyone know where one can find the original transmission with the Briggs introduction? After the initial showing on Channel 4, and in its initial showings on U.S. television, an alternative introduction was sometimes used. Instead of Raymond Briggs describing how much it had snowed the winter [...]

[fragment] Before I do what I do now, I used to work as a musician – more specifically, as a Musical Director*. Thus, each Christmas season would be spent in the dark – a dull haze of alcohol, laughing, boredom, sleep, M&S curries and the company of musicians and turns. For the first four years, [...]

The longest single conversation I have (which is still in progress) is about workflow. I always have it with the same person, James Newman, who is similarly obsessive about such matters – and finally, in a cruel ironic twist, it never gets resolved, consequently eating hours out of my potential and finite hours available to [...]

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. [...]

Back from Develop, which was brilliant. Hugely refreshing to go to a conference that was free of the usual patchiness. More about it later – but my overriding memory of it is over on CultureTech for your perusal.

The CultureTech blog at New Statesman is now up-and-running…Play Britannia continues with some wonderful new interviews….GameCity 3 is starting to eat up everything in its path…