If possible I would love to put a bypass around the forthcoming winter. Lets be honest here Christmas is overrated. In January you will fail after 3 days to keep to an enforced health kick and only if you’re lucky February or March might involve a skiing holiday, but that’s pretty much it. So lets [...]

Penguin’s gone digital and innovative again. We Tell Stories is a Google Maps mash-up that integrates locations with a story specially written for the project. Oh and a bit of Alternative Reality Gaming. The first story is ‘The 21 Steps’ by Charles Cumming. The first installment of We Tell Stories starts in King’s Cross.

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It’s taken me a while to allow myself back into the gaming world. Having spent about 5 years as a freelance games reviewer for The Independent I lost my enthusiasm for the gaming industry in general somewhere between writing copy for the banal Mary Kate and Ashley: Mystery Mall (0.5 Stars) and the unending line [...]

One of the many great things about working at Altogether is that some of the projects we work on are so much fun, like the 4 games we’ve built recently. Whenever the call goes out around the office to act as testers on these there are always more volunteers than we need. To see why [...]

It’s been another crazy week here and so we’ve been a bit slack on the blog. But to make it up to you, we thought that we’d show you one of our most recent pieces of work.
It’s a new site for Phones4U which allows you to play the part of some of the characters from [...]

It’s Friday, the sun is shining and all is well with the world. There have been so many interesting stories out there over the last few days, that we thought we’d share some of our favourites with you.
Carlsberg carried out what must be the first ever case of altruistic littering when they dropped £5,000 worth [...]

I was rummaging through some stuff last night and I found an original Nintendo “Game & Watch” Zelda game which I believe was the first Zelda game to go mobile.
What’s so brilliant about the way the Nintendo guys/gals work is that always concentrate on gaming rather than worrying about CPU speeds. The pictures above show [...]

One trend that we’re loving at the moment is the final emergence of Urban Gaming (think flash mobbing crossed with a kind of competitive digital orienteering) as something almost mainstream.
Usually relying on a mix of online and mobile elements to push users towards some truly participatory entertainment it’s something that, while not appealing to [...]