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Spoken Word Poet Bridie Squires on Her Upcoming One-Woman Show, Casino Zero

19 February 20

Bridie Squires has certainly been keeping herself busy since stepping down as our Editor last year. Not only was she Nottingham Trent University’s first ever Writer in Residence, but she’s been quietly working away on a one-woman show based on her experiences as a croupier. With a performance scheduled for later this month, she told us what to expect from Casino Zero…

NTU’s Director of International Gaming Research on the Signs of Addictive Behaviours

20 February 20

As the first person to coin the phrase “technological addiction” in the mid-nineties, it’s fair to say that Dr. Mark Griffiths was way ahead of the curve when it came to predicting the potential impact technology could have on society. The world-renowned psychologist is a Distinguished Professor at Nottingham Trent University’s School of Social Sciences, as well as the Director of their International Gaming Research Unit, which was established to, amongst other things, discover and understand attitudes toward potentially addictive behaviours in gaming. And with an estimated 33 million gamers in the UK – almost half the population – we caught up with Dr. Griffiths to find out what it actually means to be addicted to video games...

Local Game Developers Dambuster Studios Give Us the Lowdown on their Future Plans

17 February 20

Located in the heart of Nottingham, Dambuster Studios has been one of the country’s biggest video game developers for over twenty years. With projects including dystopian first-person shooter series Homefront: The Revolution and Dead Island, their Studio Development Director Rob Matthews tells us they have no plans of slowing down...

We Survived a VR Zombie Attack at Zero Latency and Had a Blast

18 February 20

We don’t need to bore you with information about how virtual reality has exploded over the past few years. First developed to help people believe they were really part of a Hollywood movie, the technology has now expanded across many domains – from architects designing a new town hall to transporting you back in time in a museum. But one of the biggest advantages to VR is its ability to transport you into the scary-realistic world of games...