Help shape the future of creative industries in the UK

Results just published from a pilot industry panel reveal the top priorities for film and games industry professionals. Employers from the film industry joined Creative Skillset’s influential online industry panels and took part in its pilot survey in February. Following … Continue reading

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Watershed launches £30,000 Playable City Award

Calling all artists, techies, designers, playmakers and all round mavericks. There’s a new award in town and it’s not afraid to push boundaries. Criss-crossing the intersections between art, technology, play and culture, the Playable City Award is looking for imaginative, … Continue reading

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New York New York! Hide&Seek expands in USA

In case you haven’t heard yet, last week brought the news that games studio Hide&Seek, our friends behind The Building Is… and the recent Hide&Seek Weekender, are opening a new office in Soho, New York. The game studio already has … Continue reading

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Jo Twist to deliver ExPlay VIP keynote

ExPlay Festival 2012 organisers have announced this year’s keynote will be UKIE’s CEO Jo Twist. Taking on the role earlier this year, JoTwist has been working to make the UKIE trade body relevant to modern games development by giving its … 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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99 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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