I’ve been lucky enough to work in the videogames industry for five years, basically the latter half of my career in PR so far. In a game of two halves, the second half has Continue reading >
Please don’t take this personally, it’s aimed at me too. Following the tragedy of the Connecticut shootings and other numerous recent violent gun-related incidents in the US, even Democrats are getting aggressive. Their California Continue reading >
I love Kickstarter. It’s a brilliant crowdfunding platform, offering entrepreneurs, creatives and established talent an added dimension with which to realise their dreams and get those projects off the ground. While they had their Continue reading >
2012? Pffft. Roland Emmerich and the Mayan calendar got it wrong (the former, very, very wrong). Anyone seeking signs of armageddon might eschew John Cusack’s ludicrous antics or hippies in the Alps and consider Continue reading >
MCV’s preview of the ERA (Entertainment Retailers Association) report highlights a £1bn spend on digital content — over half of which (£552m) was spent on video games, representing a 7.7% rise on previously released figures. Continue reading >
Growing up I was fascinated by Patrick Moore. I think, of the many questions I asked my parents in my formative years, a fair percentage were about that man. He was the closest thing Continue reading >
On Tuesday night a few of us from Bastion went along to 195, Piccadilly for Games Question Time; hosted by @BAFTAGames. It was a great night. Debate was polite but suitably robust — with no one Continue reading >
For me, texting is second nature. I’ve been doing it since I was a teenager. (About as long as other bad habits I picked up at the time.) On the 20th anniversary of the ‘short Continue reading >
The end of this week sees the release of the Wii U and, hopefully, another disruptive arrival for Nintendo. I’m hearing a lot of negativity about the console at the moment but this isn’t Continue reading >
I own a Wii. I rarely use it. There were times when Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Wii Sports Resort were popular at home but have long-since succumbed to the double threat of Sky Continue reading >
Over the last year or so we’ve been talking to more and more free to play publishers. Free to play can be hard to work out for some and it’s not yet clear how Continue reading >
I love Grand Theft Auto. Since the top-down original I have been smitten with its overblown, ridiculously cool universe. Yes, it’s a bit violent. It’s crossed some ‘boundaries’. People who simply don’t get videogames, Continue reading >
With the iPad mini now launched we move on to today’s lavish Microsoft event for its Surface tablet. Where will we be at the end of the week? Well, I have a feeling I’ll be at home wondering what all Continue reading >
I love Zombies. Who doesn’t? They’re emotionless, hard on the eyes and lumber about in an awkward fashion. They have so few redeeming features that you really don’t mind hitting them with large blunt Continue reading >
Rolling news is unavoidable in our times. If the TV news doesn’t report it the internet will — and what’s the point of Sky, the BBC, Al Jazeera or NHK covering anything if they Continue reading >
White papers are something Google does for fun these days. It’s not my idea of fun but if your core business is enabling searches for stuff, you might expect to extrapolate a lot of Continue reading >
Twitter can be a cruel mistress, especially if you tell her how to start a sentence. Invariably, even within the confines of 140 characters, it will end badly. However, after some lively discussion in Continue reading >
Shipping with the new A6 chip and a 4-inch retina display the iPhone 5 may become the format of choice for mobile gamers — certainly our client, Kwalee’s David Darling thinks so. During that announcement Continue reading >
At around 2am BST Andy Murray became the US Open champion; winning his first Grand Slam and becoming the first British man to win one in 76 years. While somewhat bleary-eyed this morning, it Continue reading >
I look out of my window some mornings and half-expect to see a rotund, disproportionate sparrow squawking menacingly at me from the nearest perch. Like a postmodern Hitchcock pastiche — Angry Birds are descending Continue reading >
I don’t often get annoyed by the TV. The weekend, though, brought more telly-related angst than I’ve had to endure for a long time. In short — the new series of X Factor engaged Continue reading >
“She cannae tek any more cap’n!” — ideally, this won’t be the assessment your iPhone delivers when gauging your heart rate. The makers of the new ‘Cardiio’ iPhone app are adding biosensor capabilities to Continue reading >
I wouldn’t normally advocate favouritism. It’s an unfortunate thing to find in any form of the media and generally indicates a lack of credibility. I believe there are exceptions though; circumstances as well as Continue reading >
I worked with ELSPA across 2008-09 to assist in lobbying press on the benefits of a Pan European Game Information system. Here we are in July 2012 and it’s only just become UK law. Continue reading >
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has never been a popular figure in the UK, the phone-tapping scandal and News International’s print practices have worsened matters considerably. Less directly, I’ve often wondered what Sky’s ‘rebooting’ of Continue reading >
I love the concept of zeebox. I’m using the site and the app, the slick tabbed interface, the popularity bar and the seamless integration of Facebook and Twitter — it’s a great site, a great Continue reading >
US startup Ouya has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for its Android-based games console and I am very excited. Principally because, in many ways, it’s a bonkers idea. If I said to you “I’m Continue reading >
In PR Week’s latest podcast (article here) a couple of industry experts lament the lack of development in the area of measuring ‘what PR does’. One says, ‘The PR industry’s job is to influence Continue reading >
Amid the glorious afterglow of Spain’s 4-0 demolition of Italy last night, I found myself getting very annoyed. It was nothing to do with the manner of their wonderful football, or even Mario Balotelli’s Continue reading >
After a predictably dismal end to England’s Euro 2012 campaign (I still don’t get the debates over missed spot kicks, surely they miss the point?) our hopes and fears now switch sports — and Continue reading >
