Friday, 29 December 2017

Dhana Frerichs PhD completion

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It was great to see Dhana Frerichs, one of the doctorate students I was supervising here (supported by the Centre for Digital Entertainment...

SEGA retro consoles?

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Similar to the SNES Classic Mini blog post below; could we soon be seeing efforts like this only for SEGA consoles this time? According to ...

TIGA nomination for Best Educational Institution

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It's a few weeks now that this has taken place but it's worth reporting that Bournemouth University was once again this year nomina...

Final open day at Bournemouth University

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There is one final open day for prospective applicants before the close of the UCAS deadline here at Bournemouth University; to take place ...
Thursday, 28 December 2017

Timebreaker game

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This was released a few months ago granted but still, I wanted to blog about it as it is a great game and also the creation of several stud...

British Games Institute

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An initiative which has gathered momentum this year is the British Games Institute (or BGI); you can find out more about them here on thei...

VS Games 2018 IPC

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VS Games (a conference we hosted here at Bournemouth University back in 2013, soon to be five years in fact from when that happened which s...

CHME 2018 Conference Scientific Committee

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Another conference I am helping out with in terms of participating in its scientific committee is CHME 2018, which in fact takes place here...

Edutainment 2018 Program Committee

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I have been invited to participate in the Edutainment 2018 Program Committee; the conference took place here at Bournemouth, UK last year a...

Edutainment 2017 proceedings

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The Springer proceedings for the recent Edutainment 2017 conference we held here at Bournemouth University earlier this summer are now rele...

Article in Springer's Transactions on Computational Science

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An extended version of the recent Cyberworlds conference article from September (for which I blogged about this earlier in the year) I am o...

Unreal sees year out with version 4.18

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Unless there's an update in the next few days Unreal engine will see the year out with version 4.18 which has been out now for a few we...

SNES Classic Mini

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With the year almost out and with a recent blog post on the Ataribox I had to (also) mention the SNES Classic Mini too; which is a great ad...

The end of the road for Microsoft's Kinect

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This is something that has been long predicted but a few weeks back Microsoft formally announced that they will no longer making the Kinect...

A new Atari console?

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Details on this appear to be sketchy at the moment but it appears the classic name Atari is to be branded on a new console in 2018.  Th...

Lecturer position (Games Technology) at Bournemouth University

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We have a position available, fixed term and for twelve months, here at the Creative Technology Department in the Faculty of Science and Te...
Monday, 31 July 2017

Night Trap, 25th anniversary release

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A game that for many sealed the fate of full motion video (FMV) games is now seeing a release as a 25th anniversary version according to th...

A game going on a music tour?

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I thought this was a very different piece of news; according to the Develop article here , the soundtrack of the seminal Dear Esther game i...

Unfortunately Fortunate Organisms game

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If you're looking for a great casual game on Steam this summer I'd really recommend UFO (Unfortunately Fortunate Organisms) which i...

Upcoming open days at Bournemouth University

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We have three upcoming open days (21st and 28th of October plus 18th of November) at Bournemouth University (for our music and games degree...