Just three weeks to go now until what promises to be a great event at LAUNCH: Future Gaming & Digital Conference at Birmingham Science Park and the line up is looking awesome. (More on that below). We’re delighted to announce that Game Central will itself be relaunching soon after a very quiet summer, so what better [...]

  Games industry training course Gamer Camp is having a Gamer Camp Pro Open day on Saturday March 19th for those interested in taking part to get a taster of the camp and learn more about the nuts and bolts of the course. Pop along to the Gamer Camp: Pro Open Day on 19th March [...]

The delightful fellows over at IndieCity are putting on two free marketing workshops for indie developers. There’s two workshops one in Leamington Spa Weds 16th Feb 3-8pm and the other waaaaaay over the pond for the lucky so and sos at GDC on Feb 27th. Both workshops are run using Open Space Technology. At the [...]

There’s a new event on the horizon for university students keen to get into the games industry. Game On is aimed at current and recent graduates from the West Midlands area and takes place on Wednesday 23rd of February 12-3pm at Millenium Point. Further details are below and you can sign up at the following [...]

Next week heralds the return of the Global Game Jam and IndieCity have stepped up to organise a Birmingham based jam in conjunction with BCU. The Jam is taking place at Millennium Point and starts at 6pm on Friday 28th through to Sunday the 30th. Spaces are of course limited so sign up asap. Further [...]

As its the season for giving our good friends up at Game Horizon have offered a special discount code for tickets to next years Game Horizon Conference. The offer is valid up until New Years eve so be quick if you want to take advantage of this, GameHorizon Conference 2011, The Sage, Gateshead. 28th and [...]

This January we’re joined by Mudlark’s Toby Barnes talking about pervasive communter larks with their recently launched project Chromaroma. Using your Oyster Card & Bike Key, Chromaroma lets you play the city as you travel. It tells you stories, gives you points, & visualises your movements on an interactive map of London. As always MEUs [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]