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Happy New Year everyone – here’s wishing you a happy, healthy and successful 2013. 

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A recently reported survey claimed that 75% of CEOs didn’t trust their marketing directors, believing they took more interest in creating award-winning campaigns than building solid ROI into their output. That’s a strong statement,
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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
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The Willow Foundation, founded by Bob and Megs Wilson, and generously supported by GamesAid, has helped over 9,000 people during their darkest days, providing a Special Day that gives them a chance to forget,
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In praise of books

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Technology has pervaded every aspect of our lives, generally making it better, or at least more efficient. Health, transport, communications, our general lifestyle have all seen improvements. But is there a point where things
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From an initial entry of 21 teams from educational establishments across Europe, 12 have been shortlisted to progress to the next round in this year’s Make Something Unreal Live competition, organised by Epic Games.
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So it’s over.  Following a bruising and, at times, ugly campaign the race is over and Obama is victorious. I’ve just watched the acceptance speech live, and boy, what a speech it was. You
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Looking in from the outside it was plain to see that Andrew Mitchell would not survive the media blitzkrieg that followed his temper tantrum at the Downing Street gates. Forever and a day his
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If you are a GamesAid member please don’t forget to register your vote for the selection of charities that will receive financial support from GamesAid in 2012. Voting closes at 23.59pm on Sunday 23rd
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I’m calling it. The abuse of this small two letter word needs to end. It drives me nuts. You know what I’m talking about, right? A politician or scientist is being questioned on the
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Being a young, twenty-something, by-product of the early 90s, I wasn’t around during the first transmission of coloured television or the development of the humble telephone. In fact I have missed a lot of
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The headline e-books outselling printed books sounds like one that the UK publishing industry has been waiting for with trepidation ever since the launch of the Amazon Kindle. There are of course people saying
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Bastion is kick-starting its intern programme for the second half of 2012 – if you’re interested in hearing more, just drop us a line at hello@bastion.co.uk with some info about yourself. 

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NCsoft is excited to announce the release of the publisher’s latest title, Renaissance Blood THD, on the Google Play Store. Developed by Korean FPS masterminds BRIDEA and published by NCsoft, Renaissance Blood THD is
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We’ve taken a bit of an interest in the relationship between football and pioneering tech recently, with the launch of Quick Feet — the proven ball skills training programme that helps players develop tiki-taka
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Our friends at Intent Media are hosting the MCV Award’s this Thursday and are asking everyone who’s attending to take a tenner to donate to GamesAid. The organisation aims to raise £4,000 by the end
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Sky Atlantic’s Game of Thrones is back again with a second series and it’s time to pretend I’m not really into it — again. After seeing trailers for the first series I made it
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This last fortnight, I have been mostly sending hastily scribbled pictures to friends and family via the came-out-of-nowhere smartphone app Draw Something that swooped the nation. There’s no question it’s addictive. And fun. Funny,
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