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
Read OnLet 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
Read OnEven 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
Read On20 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
Read OnChannel 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
Read OnBeautiful 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
Read OnPleased 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
Read OnAlex 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
Read OnUpdating the humble postcard for the Facebook generation
Have traditional postcards had their day? Quite, the opposite, say creators of ‘Cards In The Post’, a project from tech start up Electric Animal, which launched last month. “The problem with postcards is writing them, not receiving them, says Richard … Continue reading
Read On99 Tiny Games unleashed around London
Like mushrooms after rain, all manner of colourful circular shapes have sprung up over London. They come in a range of colours, are about a foot wide, and grow on the ground and walls for the duration of the London … Continue reading
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