Site search

There's more content than you would believe. Hopefully this will make finding it a bit easier...

6 Places to Get Your Game on in Nottingham

Wed 14 Dec 2016

After hosting the annual GameCity festival for all these years, Nottingham has exploded with places to get your game on. Here, we offer up the list of places you can twiddle your thumbs...

German Board Game Designer Reiner Knizia Visited Ludorati Cafe

Wed 09 Nov 2016

He’s had over 600 games published, won several 'Game of the Year' awards, and has made some of the best-selling games of the last twenty years. Modern board games are all a bit different from playing Monopoly with your nan at Christmas, so when Reiner Knizia visited Ludorati, the board game café on Maid Marian Way, Gav Squires sat down with him to talk about all things board game...

Hockley Hustle in Pictures - Wired, Homemade, Edins, The Lofthouse, Game City and Lee Rosy's

Tue 11 Oct 2016

With Alex Milne, Motormouf, Ling Peng, Stacey McMullen, The Age of Stella, 3 Body Trio, Lowrie, and loads more

Game of Thrones' Bella Ramsey

Mon 22 Aug 2016

Whenever I became Lyanna, it didn’t feel weird telling these grown men what to do.

3 Game of Thrones Actors from Nottingham

Fri 10 Jun 2016

From Dothraki warriors to incredibly bad-ass child queens, Notts wears the crown in Game of Thrones...

Game On: The YouTube Show About Videogame Culture

Wed 23 Mar 2016

The opinion-based TV show about video game culture has been going since last year. We spoke to co-creator David Wayman about its progress

Mantic Games: Bridging The Gap Between Tabletop Miniatures and Board Games

Thu 18 Feb 2016

"I thought some of the areas Games Workshop no longer focused on could be interesting businesses, so Mantic was born"

Big Game: A Poem by Adrian Reynolds

Tue 19 Jan 2016

The brains behind online comic, Dadtown has written us a right good poem

Theatre Review: The Beautiful Game

Sat 09 Jan 2016

There are some brilliantly silly moments that should make football fans reflect on the stupidity of putting their emotional well-being into the feet of 11 blokes kicking a ball

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

Tue 24 Nov 2015

The fourth and final part of the franchise is in cinemas now

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.