Aged 11-16? Interested in Video Games? Pete O’Donnell, Design Manager on Freestyle Games‘ DJ Hero franchise, explains how new video games are planned and created, and shows how you can design your own.
Brought to you by BAFTA and Screen WM/Game Central, the workshop is part of the BAFTA Young Game Designers competition, which is [...]

Meet ‘em Ups are back! This month we’re in association with BAFTA and are joined by Freestyle Games talking about their follow up to the #1 New Game IP of 2009, DJ Hero 2
& get ready to dust off your DJ mixing skills to take part in the Game Central 2010 DJ Hero Tournament
As always [...]

UKTI are currently organising a mission to the Tokyo Games Show on the 13-17th of September.
“This mission is ideal for companies who are new or have limited experience of the Japanese games market. The aim is to  provide in-depth briefings covering the challenges of working in Japan and the opportunities to work [...]

Employers and workers in the creative industries, including those working in the games industry are being asked to help Skillset shape the future of the sector by taking part in the largest consultation of the Creative Media Industries.
The 2010 Creative Media Workforce and Employer Surveys, which launched on Monday (24 May), will help Skillset to [...]

No sooner has the dust settled on State of Independence and another indie conference is announced. World of Love is being organised by Pixel Lab and looks like like it will be an eclectic and awesome event…
World of Love, a new conference for independent game developers, will gather the highest concentration of UK indie developers [...]

Game Central have joined with Game Republic and Game Horizon to help sponsor the upcoming State of Independence self publishing conference taking place at the York Racecourse on April 8th. We are pleased to announce that we are able to offer those working in the West Midlands games industry** (which includes people based in the [...]

Today recent speculation was finally confirmed as  Rare officially announced their plans to open a new second studio facility in  Birmingham at Digbeth’s Fazeley Studios.
Rare believes that the current model of massive teams has lead to a boom and bust cycle in staffing terms and sees a film production model as a far better and [...]

A big congratulations and well done to everyone who took part in the Birmingham leg of X48 this weekend, and especially to the organisers Pixel Lab. After 48 (27 to be precise) hours  it was phenomenal to see what had been accomplished by the teams over such an intense period of time.
The theme of the [...]

The lovely folks over at Nottingham’s Game City festival are plugging the gap between Octobers with a new series of monthly after dark events entitled Game City Nights. Although its a little further east than we’re used to, the evening has a great line up including Hello Games (developers of the much anticipated indie game [...]

Edit 15/03: Sadly the Women in Games Conference has now been cancelled due to low delegate figures. Please visit the Women In Games site for full details.
The University of Bradford in cooperation with Bradford College hosts Women In Games 2010 from the 25th to the 26th March. Women In Games is in its 7th year [...]