Iain Simons

Iain Simons writes, talks and tweets about videogames and technology. His new book, Play Britannia, is to be published in 2009. He is the director of the GameCity festival at Nottingham Trent University.

Articles by Iain Simons

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Games

Revisiting Text-based Games

17 October 2008
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Each week Iain Simons finds you a game to while away a few hours at your desk. This week's Something for the Weekend is Zork. Enjoy wisely...

Games

Obama burnout paradise

15 October 2008

Quite whether voters are drawn toward high-speed road-races is unclear, but the Obama campaign has opted to buy ads in some new game titles to access the electorate

Games

SWTW: Superstruct

10 October 2008

Each week Iain Simons finds you a game to while away a few hours at your desk. This week's Something for the weekend is Superstruct. Enjoy wisely...

Business

ELSPA vs BBFC: Round 2

10 October 2008

(For some background on this, see our previous post)

Games

Something Orisinal

03 October 2008

SFTW - 'if Raymond Briggs went into casual web-games they would probably look at bit like this'. Iain Simons chooses some fabulous games for you to while away a few hours with. Enjoy wisely...

Education

Evolution of LittleBigPlanet

01 October 2008
1 comment

With so much discussion in creative education about the barriers between arts and science work such as that by Media Molecule is hugely invigorating

SciTech

SFTW: Nitrome

26 September 2008

Each week Iain Simons selects a game so you can while away a few hours at your computer. This week Nitrome. Enjoy wisely...

SciTech

The G-boys' Android

26 September 2008
3 comments

It is the item that's got the blogosphere buzzing - Android. But is Google's latest effort to dominate the marketplace a winner?

Society

Campaign

19 September 2008

Every week we give you something to while away the quiet hours at your desk. This week a knock-about and stylish game of political strategy. Enjoy wisely...

North America