GameHorizon

Just to let you all know to keep your diaries free, we are planning another GameHorizon mingle event for Thursday 26th April. More details coming soon.

At Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium Double Eleven received a Creative Industry Award, and even more impressive won the overall winner at the 2011 Best New Business Awards. Founded by former lead Rockstar Leeds software engineers, Double Eleven is a white-hot technology led games development studio comprising of some of the most talented and forwarding thinking people [...]

Codeworks are working with the Journal newspaper to help encourage North East Games Companies to enter the Big Chip Awards 2012. The Big Chip Awards are the biggest and longest running awards programme for the digital & creative sectors north of London. Held annually in Manchester the event attracts 400+ participants every year. The Awards [...]

Double Eleven has been shortlisted in three categories for the upcoming North East Business Awards. The awards include a Small Business Award, Newcomer of the Year Award and Science & Technology Award. “We are very proud of how far our business has developed in what is a relatively short space of time. More so, having [...]

Double Eleven welcomes a new Technical Director and Senior Programmer to the fold. Rob Ware, having accepted a role as Technical Director, has been in the industry since 2002, working previously as a lead engineer at both Rare and Rockstar Leeds. Mark Bryant, previously from Rare joins our networking team. Rob comments “The skills I [...]

Our friends at Northumbria university are looking for some help from you guys. In the last three years the Technology Strategy Board has invested £15m in the Creative Industries. As part of the development of their strategy for the next three, they’re running this survey to understand the priority areas for investment, in the form [...]

GameHorizon Conference tickets are at the cheapest price they will be for the next two weeks only. Offer ends Wednesday 29th February. For 2012’s event, we are welcoming back popular speaker and friend of the conference, Mills from ustwo™. Mills will join a panel debate on mobile gaming with Jon Jordan of PocketGamer.biz and our [...]

GameHorizon members Fluid Pixel & Bookmarked Games are happy to announce the release of My First Motor Car, a fun, engaging toy that provides hours of entertainment and education for everyone; available on mobile devices. Ever wish you had your very own Motor Car to play with that you can play with all the time, [...]

Tickets are now on sale for the 2012 GameHorizon Conference on 27th and 28th June at the Sage Gateshead. All GameHorizon members get 2 tickets for the price of 1, at the bargain price of £150.00 + vat from now till the day of the event. To book your tickets please contact Elspeth for your [...]

If you have a place in the Great North Run in September and haven’t yet decided on a charity to support then one worthy games related cause is the charity SpecialEffect. The charity works across the UK and helps young people with disabilities to enjoy games via cutting edge technology including eye control computers and [...]

GameHorizon Members Radiation Burn are proud to announce that they have successfully launched their first self published title on I-pad and WiiWare. “Releasing a game is never easy but self publishing for the first time was a really useful learning experience” said Graham Stewart from Radiation Burn. Newton Vs the horde is a fun physics [...]

Ending 2011 on a high with the release of some great new projects and some exciting new recruits has set Atomhawk up for what we are confident will be our best year yet in 2012! Highlights from 2011 for the Atomhawk team included sharing in the success of top console titles such as Dead Island, [...]

UKTI are holding a practical one-day workshop to help equip you with the means to discover who the main organisations are, which regions and sectors they focus on and to have an understanding of their procurement procedures. This workshop highlights documentation to help you gain project information and intelligence, and shows how to make best [...]

Fresh from a keynote at Sundance, US-based distribution strategist and thought leader Peter Broderick will be sharing the newest ideas about creative content distribution and audience engagement at an event in Newcastle on Tues 21 Feb. Delivered as part of a brief visit to the UK, Broderick will be sharing his groundbreaking ideas and expertise [...]

Pitbull Studio Limited are celebrating their 15th Anniversary this month. It was back in 1996 that Pitbull Syndicate Limited was founded with a team of 8 people… after releasing several million-plus selling PC and console times, the company was sold to Midway Games Inc who were later to declare bankruptcy, putting the Pitbull studio into [...]

Computational Intelligence is the newly established applied research group to develop collaborative research focused activities. The group uses various tools and techniques of computational intelligence for modelling, visualisation and performance enhancement of physical, computational and cyber systems. The group is pursuing research activities in diverse dimensions including games, artificial intelligence, affective computing, intelligent learning, mobile [...]

Team17 has acquired a number of assets from independent developer and GameHorizon members Iguana Entertainment, and added the company’s co-founders to its senior staff. Brothers Jason Falcus and Darren Falcus will take the roles of head of studio development and senior manager of business development respectively. “Joining Team17, a studio with such a heritage of making [...]

Darren Jobling, COO of Eutechnyx, has today stepped down as Chairman of GameHorizon after almost seven years in the position. His successor has been named as Gareth Edmondson, newly appointed CEO of mobile publisher Thumbstar. Jobling announced his resignation from the board in September this year due to increased responsibilities brought about by Eutechnyx’s ongoing [...]

GameHorizon members Fluid Pixel are happy to announce the release of Smiley® Break, the mind twisting puzzle game available on all major mobile platforms. The game is based on their original IP Revolve, which had over 4 million downloads and hit the overall number 1 spot around the world on the Ovi platform. Cramlington-based messaging service Palringo, who [...]

Thursday 26th January 2012, A Mobile Games Event hosted by GameHorizon We’re kick starting 2012 with a new event and a great opportunity for everyone to meet the new Chairman of GameHorizon and CEO of Thumbstar Games, Gareth Edmondson.  Following the success of Go Go Games back in May 2011 we would like to revisit the booming [...]

Northumbria University’s Enterprise Development and Innovation team are looking for games businesses to open their doors to students. During the week of January 16th 2012, groups of up to 20 students along with their tutor will be visiting games, animation and web companies for an hour or so. The aim is to allow students to [...]

The Pud is back! The Codeworks Christmas networking event for North East digital & creative folks. Last year’s ‘PUD’ brought over 250 people from the North East’s digital and creative industry together – and this year will be even bigger & better!  If you’ve never been before, it’s a fantastic opportunity to bring your team [...]

Train2Game and GameHorizon will have an exhibitor table at Game Connection in Paris on the 6th-8th December.  If you would like to find out more about the student placement programme please get in touch with Carri to arrange a time to meet up at the event.  Carri@secret-sauce.co.uk

The GameHorizon 2012 Conference will take place on 27th-28th June in at the Sage Gateshead with fringe events around the NewcastleGateshead Quayside. The conference will feature keynotes and presentations by leading figures from the games, creative and interactive entertain