Playing in Public at the Hide&Seek Weekender

Competitive sandwich making, satisfaction for the snail god, and giant birds in search of giant nests can all be found at this year’s Hide&Seek Weekender. Following successful events in 2009 and 2010, the Weekender is back to encourage drop-in play … Continue reading

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Let the Game Jam commence

This October, London’s Science Museum and The Pervasive Media Studios in Bristol are turning themselves over for 24 hours to the ExPlay Game Jam. Organised by this year’s ExPlay festival and led by bio-medical scientists from the Wellcome trust, game … Continue reading

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Even buildings have feelings

Say a polite bonjour, to La Gaite Lyrique, a beautiful Parisian building that can see, hear, smell and feel its visitors, courtesy of an experiment with games, lights, mirrors and buttons by London games studio Hide&Seek. LJ Rich from BBC … Continue reading

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20 August is World Mosquito Day.

Malaria No More UK, the leading charity to help end malaria launched a new awareness campaign to mark World Mosquito Day, today, Monday 20 August called Mozzy Air. The campaign follows a spoof airline that flies to over 100 malaria … Continue reading

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Channel 4’s Battlefront Tackles Youth Unemployment

According to Government statistics, over 20% of the UK’s 16 – 24 year-olds are unemployed, amounting to more than a million young people. Our country’s youth is at the forefront of the current unemploment epidemic. To tackle the biggest issue … Continue reading

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Beautiful butterflies resurrected from an 800-year-old castle

Fonmon Castle stands proudly in the Vale of Glamorgan on the coast of South Wales – one of the few remaining Welsh castles still lived in as a home, and currently a popular wedding venue. It was built by the … Continue reading

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Pleased to be playing with Hide&Seek on new projects

We’re proud to be working with Hide&Seek…or should we say playing? The games studios love all things to do with play, which they believe will form an increasingly important part of cultural life in the 21st century, and is essential … Continue reading

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Alex Cuba: the kind of Static In The System we like

New album Ruido En El Sistema out in September. Live at Jazz Café 18 September. Of all the songs on Alex Cuba’s forthcoming album, it’s the one about war that’s the closest to the Cuban Canadian’s heart. It is called … Continue reading

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