Am sort of helping out with this gig next year, so if you could all buy tickets to it, that'd be great, ta: www.seetickets.com/event/pye-co...

Shocking. The Stone Roses were incredible but also Mani’s bass on those Primal Scream records was brilliant. RIP.

Florian Schneider's (Kraftwerk) EMS Synthi just sold at auction for $90,000! The V&A want to exhibit it too apparently. Auction still live - hundreds of other items for sale.

Scoootlaaaaannnddddd!!!

Fruitful trip to Sore Thumb Retro Games in York yesterday! This “dog bone” controller Famicom is the only Nintendo console I didn’t have.

Good night raving at the 1-in-12 in Bradford (1st time in 30 years) with acts including Gus Bousfield, Flash Cassette and Utah Saints! @markoswin.bsky.social

Also great to reward & recognise our game dev community at @gamayo.bsky.social last night with the GR Awards. Personal highlight was giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to Ian Stewart, founder of Gremlin Graphics. Thanks @keefstuart.bsky.social for being Boss Judge! gamerepublic.net/news/winners...

Really good fun at @gamayo.bsky.social yesterday at WX in Wakefield - 500 games industry folks there with 68 playable games from the North and Scotland! gamayo.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...

WANT!

More details on our visit to Valve on the brand-new DF website, kicking off with everything you need to know about the new Steam Machine: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/han...

BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

Just sharing this again because I like it so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...

GaMaYo and the GR Awards on Thursday is…. Sold Out. Get in touch if you want to go on a waitlist for spare tickets #indiegamedev #gamedev

Really enjoying the #switchedon electronic music festival in Whitby! Everyday Dust, Hidden Britain, Lines of Silence, Me Loss Me, Mike Dickinson & more. Ably hosted by @bobfischer.bsky.social!

The Celebrity Traitors - absolutely fucking brilliant.

Here's a longer version of the games industry piece on our region by James Vincent at BBC Look North (6 minutes in), featuring @castirongames.bsky.social, @maximalistltd.com and @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social with a fantastic 8-bit game intro. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

On radio & telly this morning, banging on about the games industry here in the North! Full report on BBC Look North later.

Mischief Night tonight! If you’re Northern, you’ll know about it. For me, growing up in a small village, this was the most exciting time - better than Halloween or Bonfire Night.

If you live in or around Wakefield, UK and you're interested in the history of games, I'm giving a talk on the history of Worms and Team17 at Wakefield Museum on Saturday 22nd November. Tickets are super limited; reserve one here: experiencewakefield.co.uk/event/30-yea...

Whitby abbey tonight! Spooky lights and a play featuring Dracula - part of the Goth/Halloween weekend.

I still occasionally think of this Viz cartoon and chuckle.

Where did all the money go? "From last year, we're really seeing a lot of money going from the US and Europe to other emerging markets, whether it's China, Turkey, or even Vietnam," says Lirui Ding of Transcend Fund. www.gamesindustry.biz/where-did-al...

FYI for Google Drive users.

One of my favourite albums - the sublime Slave to the Rhythm track remixed and messed about with by 80s production geniuses Trevor Horn and Steve Lipson. Was also sampled by The Orb in their brilliant track A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld.

Love my Kubrick stickers from the BFI London shop.

Enjoyed stepping in and hosting a chat yesterday on the MCM Comic Con Live Stage with Petri Alanko, brilliant composer for Remedy games including Alan Wake 1 & 2, Control and Quantum Break! (Get well soon @lewispackwood.bsky.social)

Great Perfect Dark/TimeSplitters panel at MCM today hosted by @dringo.bsky.social - and got my N64 cartridge signed!

Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider's gear collection up for auction 😎 www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

“Being in the charts was never the plan. We were electro punks…” Remembering Soft Cell co-founder Dave Ball, who has sadly passed away aged 66. MOJO revisits our 2021 interview with Ball in which he recalls his and Marc Almond’s unexpected journey from electronic transgressives to pop stars.

Shit. Dave Ball was a true synth pioneer - those early Soft Cell records are incredible. Plus the new stuff - Purple Zone with Pet Shop Boys for example - was brilliant too. RIP.

The voting for Best Indie Game Made in The North sponsored by @xsolla.bsky.social closes on 10th November - have you voted yet? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #indiegamedev #gamedev

Photos, moments, posts and more about GR New Horizons out today gamerepublic.net/featured-eve... We are so pleased with the response - back again next year! #gamedev #GRNewHorizons

Lovely write-up of Game Republic’s event last week by @lewispackwood.bsky.social - we’ll share more on the fun & japes we had there next week.

Great little treat for a Monday - Air - Cherry Blossom Girl featuring Charlie XCX. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDU...

Really chuffed for the @goodviewgames.bsky.social folks - also @byronicman.bsky.social who signed Dicealot as a result of our @gamayo.bsky.social event last year.

Recently gave a friend my treasured press copy of Vib Ribbon - before that I managed to rip all the excellent soundtrack music by DJ Cam, and the press pack with some brilliant photos of Masaya Matsuura and artwork from the game.

Fun at the Play Expo today in Blackpool. Got my Llamasoft Spectrum game signed by Jeff Minter, checked out some indie games, bought Xeno Crisis on GBA, caught up with Brenda & John Romero & and narrowly beat Charles Cecil at Galaxian!

Looking forward to this later today at @fiveriserecords.bsky.social!

this is great, I just hope the new showrunner doesn't let her down

Excite! New Roland TR-1000 announced - mixes digital sounds with - finally - analogue sounds from the 808 and 909 drum machines! Pricey though - £2699. I'll be sticking with my TR8S for now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5q...

Win a fantastic LEGO Bowser at our New Horizons conference on 16th Oct in Middlesbrough and support @safeinourworld.org

Enter our giveaway for a chance to win a copy of Dicealot on launch day! WARNING: You will become addicted to this game 👀

This looks super - congrats @danthat.bsky.social! Lovely to see @disappointment.bsky.social in this too.

I want to see more kind, supportive and progressive policies from Labour - that’s how you beat mean, angry, spiteful parties like Reform & the Tories.

Good point against a good team but gutted - 2 mins away from a well-deserved victory. Leeds 2 Bournemouth 2.

Was listening to Avalon yesterday - bloody love that track.

Great new Hockney “20 Flowers” exhibition at Salts Mill in #saltaire. Hockney continuing to use iPad for his painting.

Still have mine! This was a good Christmas.

The BBC was not, repeat not, fucking about on Saturday nights in 1976

Great to see The Beano and DC Thomson celebrated in Dundee at the V&A and with a Desperate Dan & Minnie the Minx statue! Big part of my childhood.