Articles in the Blog Category

X48 hours later
By Marie F
Posted in Blog, GameCentral on 22 February 2010
Stats: and No Comments

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 [...]

Meet ‘em Up: Round 1
By Marie F
Posted in Blog, GameCentral on 7 December 2009
Stats: and No Comments

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 [...]

VC = Virtuous Circle?
By Jason H
Posted in Blog, GameCentral on 3 December 2009
Stats: and No Comments

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 – [...]

G.O.D is with us… let us Play
By Jason H
Posted in Blog, GameCentral on 24 November 2009
Stats: and No Comments

GOD is all around us. No … I’ve not suddenly come over all religious. Just a rather unfortunate, (or fortunate?), acronym for Games On Demand.
Although the E3 announcement from Microsoft was kinda lost amidst all the buzz around Natal, the move to make up to 30 premium Xbox titles available to buy online via digital [...]