We’re pleased to invite you to the Christmas IGDA event for the Midlands UK chapter, which will take place on Thursday 9th December at the Royal Pump Rooms in Leamington Spa. The topic for this event will be a celebration of Indie games development, there’ll be some short talks by a variety of different indie [...]

Screen WM are inviting anyone who works in the Film, Music or Interactive (yes that includes you games people) sectors in the West Midlands to come along on December 1st to Fazeley Studios to hear more about the “West Midlands’ Creative Mission to SXSW 2011”. This is an opportunity to speak to the organisers about [...]

That’s correct Game Central has now successfully completed a whole lap of the solar system and goodness we’ve had a busy 365 days as you can see from the scope of our achievements detailed below. So here’s to year one and how we can build on our achievements in our second year. Over £250k has [...]

Blitz Academy, Blitz Games Studios’ education out-reach division, has opened online registration for its 2011 Student Open Days Blitz Games Studio’s Student Open Days for 2011 will be held on Thursday 24 February, Thursday 10 March and Thursday 17 March, catering to second, third and final year students studying any games courses or games-related disciplines. [...]

Videogames are disappearing. No, really. They are. Consoles, cartridges, discs, and tapes gather dust in lofts. Crucial prototypes get thrown away when studios go bust, rare versions of classic games are lost forever. Every day, we lose bit of our history. We need a National Videogame Archive. Luckily, these guys just started one. 

This month [...]

Respected luminaries from the gaming and digital technology industry will be speaking at a special event at Birmingham Science Park Aston (BSPA) on Tuesday 16th November, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Industry heavyweights will join speakers from ScreenWM,  Game Central, Warwick Business School and Birmingham Science Park Aston for a day which will celebrate [...]

BAFTA Present Media Molecule at Flip: “Famed for their home-made visual style and enthusiasm for user-generated creativity, Media Molecule is the still-fairly-small Guildford games studio behind the original LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2 on PlayStation3. Media Molecule’s Michelle Ducker will look at how the company combines the diverse skills of animators, artists and programmers to create [...]

Noah Falstein international games industry consultant is in Birmingham today to deliver a keynote speech at the Hello Business Conference. Noah Falstein, international games industry consultant former senior employee of both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg for their LucasArts and Dreamworks Interactive games divisions, is in Birmingham this week to present a keynote speech at [...]

“Whether leaping over a spike-filled chasm, gunning down an enormous boss or saving civilisation (as we know it), gamers always get a second chance to save the day. So, it makes sense that would-be gamemakers should be lucky enough to deserve one too.   That’s why NTI Birmingham is extending the deadline for applications to [...]

The Skills for Games survey being organised by Nesta in conjunction with Skillset is now live so go forth and check boxes for the good of us all! The aim of the survey is to understand and articulate experiences of and challenges faced in learning and development by individuals working or seeking work in the [...]