Nights Season 2. Assassin’s in NS

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 [...]

Wii Fit in Design Week

he bespoke peripheral, and in particular looking at Wii Fit. It’s interesting to write for a magazine so ..er..’design’ centred, particularly because it start to question any assumptions you might have as to any shared understanding of what ‘design’ even means. Looking forward to writing more for DW, and in particular working hard to understand [...]

Play Britannia – Draft Graft 1

I’m currently crunching away on a new book, which aspires to be a (rather than ‘the’) history of the British videogame industry (incidentally – that cover is going to be changed…) As such, I’m finding myself drinking a variety of beverages with participants in this extraordinary story in an attempt to find some sort of consensus [...]

Brilliant Romp…

I hadn’t even seen this one. My new best friend Matt Vella gives Inside Game Design four and a half-stars worth of review on the BusinessWeek site. So says handsome, critically-sound Matt:“The Good: Useful and informative for insiders and casual readers alike. The Bad: Almost none; could use a little more analysis here and there. The Bottom Line: A brilliant romp [...]