// News

A Rare Opening
By Marie F
[2 Mar 2010|No Comment]

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 [...]

// Blog

X48 hours later
By Marie F
[22 Feb 2010|No Comment]

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 [...]

// Events

Free Places at ‘State of Independence’
By Marie F
[4 Mar 2010|No Comment]

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 [...]