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Five Minutes With... Ben Templeton

7th Nov 2011 ⁄ South West ⁄ Ben Templeton graduated from Bournemouth University in 2005 with first class honours in Interactive Media Production. His final year project, a rich media exploration of Amsterdam, was nominated for a BIMA award. Following a spell freelancing in Bristol he co-founded Thought Den...

playARK launches Cardiff game festival

30th Aug 2011 ⁄ Wales ⁄ Taking place over two days at Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre (30th September - 1st October) playARK brings games into the spotlight. The first day centres around a symposium of talks discussing the many facets of Games and Play, and how they are now being used to aid learning in education through to being used in organisations to increase creativity...

CMW launches Krave mobile game

19th Aug 2011 ⁄ London ⁄ CMW has created KRAVE KRUSADER, a 2D side-scrolling platform game as a mobile app for both iPhone and Android. It is Kellogg’s first mobile gaming app in the UK.

The game first launched in early June on Facebook to promote Krave, Kellogg’s chocolate cereal targeted at young adults.

As well as all...

Five minutes with Richard Morss

6th Jul 2011 ⁄ Northern Ireland ⁄ Richard Morss is Joint MD of Straandlooper Animation based in Northern Ireland. Richard has worked in TV and animation for over 30 years and is enjoying a surprise success with the self produced hit iphone game ‘Hector: Badge of Carnage’, which is now being released across all formats by Telltale Games. Richard is a fan of the great outdoors an...

Andy Payne to lead creation of the Games Consortiu...

7th Feb 2011 ⁄ The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) announced today that it has asked Andy Payne, a key industry figure, to lead the establishment of ‘The Games Consortium’. The ground-breaking new organisation will allow independent video games developers to exploit their games through digital distribution.

NESTA is now als...

Designer Tim Smith

4th Jan 2011 ⁄ London ⁄ Tim Smith, aka My Poor Brain, is a graphic designer from London who enjoys good old 'brain powered graphics fun'. A graduate of graphic design from the University of Gloucestershire, Tim enjoys working in a variety of creative puddles. Corporate identity, branding, packaging, exhibition design, print design, web design, caricatures, animation, Flas...

Broken Sword Special Edition is released

27th Dec 2010 ⁄ Yorkshire/Humber ⁄ York-based Revolution Software has announced that the second Broken Sword adventure, The Smoking Mirror, will be released as a special edition on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad before Christmas. ‘Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror – Remastered’ features fully animated facial expressions, improved background graphics and animation, better cut-scene...

Interview: Chaz Carter - Independent Indie Games D...

13th Aug 2010 ⁄ East of England ⁄ Creative Boom managed to peel busy independent games developer and creator of 'The Gun Game' Chaz Carter away from his raft of new projects to talk to us about how he landed in the games industry and what has contributed to his success.

Toy Story 3 in 3D

19th Jul 2010 ⁄ Yorkshire/Humber ⁄ The National Media Museum in Bradford is now selling IMAX Toy Story 3 tickets for the 3D experience.

Hello to Berlin – Sunday 6th June

27th Apr 2010 ⁄ Scotland ⁄ On Sunday 6th June, Miss Fitz-Poste's Modern Mixers present, Hello to Berlin. Join the beautiful people of the night – step into a den of iniquity where the drinks are cold, the music is hot and the girls will make you forget the world outside.

Blitz Ballroom – Sunday 2nd May

27th Apr 2010 ⁄ Scotland ⁄ Old fashioned social events for new-fangled folk – Miss Fitz-Poste's Modern Mixer is this Sunday at the fabulous Ghillie Dhu. Pop along and enjoy an afternoon of WWII style fun and frolics. There will be a host of great events.