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Gamer Gamer

Tue 30 Jun 2015

Game for a laugh? Check this new fusion of comedy and computer games heading straight from Nottingham to the Edinburgh Festival

Street Tales: Bellar Gate Rest Garden

Mon 01 Jun 2015

All the hidden secrets of the ancient graveyard in the Lace Market

Street Tales: Bellar Gate Rest Garden

Mon 01 Jun 2015

All the hidden secrets of the ancient graveyard in the Lace Market

GameCity Timeline

Wed 06 May 2015

Now they've bagged themselves a proper home in the Lace Market, we've broken down the history of GameCity

GameCity Timeline

Wed 06 May 2015

Now they've bagged themselves a proper home in the Lace Market, we've broken down the history of GameCity

Interview: Badminton Star Chris Adcock

Fri 20 Mar 2015

Chris Adcock won badminton gold medal at last year’s Commonwealth Games and is eyeing up even shinier prizes. Meanwhile, he’s skippering his hometown franchise – University of Nottingham – in the inaugural National Badminton League (which is on the telleh). We caught up to talk shuttlecocks.

Jon Ronson: The Shame Game

Mon 09 Mar 2015

This man knows all there is to know about the public shaming game

Jon Ronson: The Shame Game

Mon 09 Mar 2015

This man knows all there is to know about the public shaming game

GameCity 9: Mike Bithell

Sun 09 Nov 2014

We caught up with game designer Mike Bithell post-GameCity

Hockley Hustle: Bella Diva

Sat 18 Oct 2014

We had a quick natter with the operatic ladies in the lead up to their Hockley Hustle performance

Paul Kaye on his love for Sid Vicious

Wed 05 Feb 2014

Sid Vicious was a sneering, violent, charismatic icon of an era of music that spoke to a disaffected generation. One of those he shouted loudly at was Paul Kaye, an actor and comedian who has graced our screens with his own alter-egos, including Dennis Pennis and Mike Strutter, as well as in dramas such as Game of Thrones and Waking The Dead. As the 35th anniversary of Vicious’ death approaches, he muses on the man and the legend...

Interview: John Blanche, The Seminal Art Director of Games Workshop

Wed 06 Nov 2013

A seminal artist who has defined the look of Games Workshop from its inception, art director John Blanche is worshipped by legion. Since joining the company in the late-seventies he has produced innumerable pieces of work that have sold millions of copies around the world. We talk reds and browns, small lead figures and how glam rock influenced him...

A Rough Guide to Nottingham's Games Workshop

Tue 05 Nov 2013

A company that has has captured the imagination of millions in its lifetime, Games Workshop is a recession-ignoring international institution that has its rather uniquely designed headquarters a stones throw from the QMC and University of Nottingham. We trace its impressive trajectory in popular culture.

Interview: Play No Games

Tue 27 Nov 2012

The multi-faceted globe-trotting vanguard of the new school of electronic club sounds in Notts

Preview: GameCity7

Fri 19 Oct 2012

"We basically want to be the best village fete about videogame culture ever"

Interview: Joe Dempsie

Thu 18 Oct 2012

Joe Dempsie used to cane it full-time in Skins. Now - when he’s not bagging plum roles in Birger Larsen’s Murder and This Is England ‘86 - he gets medieval on our arses in Game Of Thrones. We blocked his way on Trent Bridge refusing to let him pass until he answered a load of riddles...

Interview: Jenny Sealey

Mon 14 May 2012

Jenny Sealey studied drama at Clarendon College and went on to become the Artistic Director of Graeae, the critically acclaimed theatre company renowned for putting deaf and disabled artists and accessibility at the core of its work. In 2009 she was awarded an MBE for services to disability arts, and last year was announced as joint artistic director for the Paralympic Games. And she has somehow still found time to re-mount and tour Reasons to be Cheerful, Graeae’s musical celebrating the work of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, which arrived at Nottingham Playhouse on 3 April.

Preview: GameCity6

Tue 25 Oct 2011

If you want to go somewhere to stand with a load of people and play games, get yourself down to the Forest for Goose Fair and try to catapault a manky rubber frog onto a rotating lilypad, for a keyring of Donny Osmond that says ‘Justin Beeber’. If you care about videogaming and where its heading, on the other hand, happy days; GameCity is back...