I am hearing really good things about Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena from various quarters, if anyone has a personal opinion on this game, either good or bad, I would love to hear about it.

From this Spring we have been lucky enough to become an official part of the organisational team of Gamecity, the international festival of videogame design and culture. The festival has been running for 4 years now, and this year proves to be the biggest yet. I have been working closely with Geri McCabe, James Newman, [...]

We tend to think that the advergame is a relatively modern creature, connected to the bright lights and high speeds of contemporary internet culture. The relationship between advertising design and videogames is long and varied, perhaps as old as the medium itself, and this is a point I will come back to frequently on this blog. To best understand how games design and advertising have exchanged ideas and principles, you need to take a long term view.