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 [...]

If our Hide&Seek Meet em Up earlier this year whet your appetite for  getting involved with some pervasive games then you should head along to two free events this August at the MAC. Both events have been organised by BARG the Birmingham pervasive games network.

Scraperwiki, the award-winning new screen scraper and data mining tool, funded by our friends over at 4iP, is putting on a one day practical hack day in Birmingham at which developers and designers will pair up with journalists and bloggers to produce a number of projects and stories based on public data. We would like [...]

This will be the last Meet ‘em Up before we take a short summer break, but to see you through those lonely Summer days without a Meet ‘em Up we’re going out with our biggest MEU to date showcasing the winning games from this years X48 XNA game [...]

Sling aside your console, PC and expectations this May 26th as Meet ‘em Up welcomes Hide&Seek founder Alex Fleetwood to introduce you to the eclectic and often very surreal world of Pervasive Games.
Pervasive games, also known as augmented reality games, city games or big games, are old forms of play fused with new technological possibilities. [...]

Taking place on Thursday 20 May at the University of Abertay, Games:EDU offers anyone involved in games education the chance to meet with your peers, to share best practice from courses throughout the UK and to help shape the future of games education courses.

Will outsourcing continue to play a big role in many games businesses? Do the advantages outweigh the weaknesses? Does it give you the rapid results and flexibility of resources that you require for your company? Or do you find that barriers of communication are slowing you down?

Come to TIGA’s event in association with Blitz [...]

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 [...]

Its that time again for interesting game show and tells, free drinks and a chance to meet up with others passionate about games.
This month’s Meet ‘em Up will be taking place at the Urban Coffee Company in Birmingham* on Wednesday April 28th from 7pm. We’re excited to be welcoming a line up [...]