The great Tyneside Cinema Barcade challenge
Tuesday 14 December 7:30 until 11pm. Tyneside Cinema bar, Newcastle upon Tyne. It’s a bit like a pub quiz but much more awesome. Come along, form a team and challenge each other at games like Super Mario, Street fighter II and Ms Pacman. There are prizes for the winning team, including tickets to see Tron [...]
Crossover Lab
The MirrorMe app was born out of a Crossover lab that Jeremiah attended earlier in the year. I now had the privilege of attending a similar Lab along with experts from science, film/ TV production and games. The crossover science lab was a week of daily brain storming and idea generations exercises to come up [...]
Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte was a recent addition to our office library, and I spent some time this weekend reading it. Living in the ‘information age’, learning how to display information in the best way possible is a very useful thing to know. The book is a wonderful insight in to how different [...]
Video games are good for children
An interesting report from the European Parliament has published findings that computer games are beneficial for children. We have never doubted the benefits of computer games and it is reassuring to have these beliefs are further validated at such a high level. The report outlined some of the key skills that they believe games teach: video games can stimulate [...]





