As confirmed just before Christmas the next Game Central Meet ‘em Up will be taking place on January the 28th, 7pm at the Jug and Jester in Leamington Spa. Full details and tickets are now available at the following link. www.meetemupjan.eventbrite.com
As always the Meet ‘em Ups are open to anyone with a passion for games [...]

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.

Is there a greater culture of entrepreneurialism in the US than there is in the UK? Some may see this as, at best, a cliche if not cultural stereotyping. Like many, though, I’ve always pretty much accepted it, but without really thinking about seeking out any hard evidence. But last week in Seattle has – [...]

Former Codemasters executives Trevor Williams and Nick Wheelwright have announced their plans to open a new Midlands based studio ‘Playground Games’. Looking to open in 2010 they told Develop that the studio will “focus on projects that utilise new business models for games across all formats.”

Hello and welcome to the new website for Game Central!
We’ll be posting news  and articles from the network and region, information about upcoming events and more. So if you have anything you’d like to see featured on the site please get in touch.
You can also follow us on twitter as @GameCentralWM, and we’ll be posting [...]

This December we’ve joined forced with Gamer Camp to invite you to not one but three free-to-attend events including, a Q&A with Blitz Games Studios co-founder Phillip Oliver; a ‘Show n’ Tell’ event for game developers and last but not least the first of the monthly Game Central ‘Meet ‘em Ups’. bringing together the people [...]