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 [...]

Birmingham Science Park Aston and Birmingham City Council are delighted to announce a regional “Technology” focused day as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people, with millions unleashing their enterprising talents and turning their ideas into reality. Global Entrepreneurship Week is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate [...]

Screen Yorkshire and Game Republic’s Games Invest 2010 is an opportunity for small-to-medium-sized games companies in the UK to find out more about games investment, and also have an opportunity to network and pitch informally and formally to investors. Tickets (£50) and more information can be found at the following link: http://gamesinvest2010.eventbrite.com Games Invest 2010 [...]

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 [...]

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 camp. www.meetemupx48.eventbrite.com X48 2010 was a Pixel [...]

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 [...]

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.