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 [...]

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 and Bradford brings a strong technological and cultural background to this internationally recognised event. Keynote speakers include Professor Valerie Walkerdine, the author of ‘Children, Gender, Video Games’.
The Keynote [...]

Develop today highlighted funds available for UK Games developers from SMEs (small to medium enterprises) to attend San Francisco’s GDC and Gamescom through the UKTI Trade access programme. The initiative is being lead by TIGA and allows developers  to apply for up to £1800 £1400 towards travel and expenses (update: funding is available only to [...]

X48, an XNA™ Game Studio GameCamp for emerging game design and development talent from the UK…60 students, 2 days, 1 goal, no sleep. Twice.
On 19th February 2010 budding videogame design and development students from all over the UK will relocate to the Birmingham City University’s City Center campus for a two-day intensive development session dedicated [...]

Today TIGA delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for UK Tax breaks, similar to those in the film industry to be introduced. The petition is signed by 55 senior industry figures, all the names of which can be viewed at www.tiga.org.
The petition was hand delivered at 11 am today by by Richard [...]

Thanks to everyone who came out last Thursday evening for the first Game Central Meet ‘em Up, we were thrilled by the turn out (not so thrilled that we ran out of chairs, but will fix this for next time).
Kicking off the evening’s talks was Paul Taylor from indie developers  Mode 7 talking about the [...]

Coventry based serious game developers PIXELearning have recently enjoyed a series of successes in France. From speaking at e-virtuoses 2009 alongside Comcast on the subject of ‘Serious Games for Sales’ at which they highlighted different approaches to training technologies.