Our Crime is a new four-part documentary series that's airing on BBC3 over the next month. Using youth crime as a lens it presents the effect of modern technology on society. It doesn't aim to analyse a connection, and it doesn't make the mistake of saying there is a definitive...

Ian Livingstone is the President of Eidos, and also co-author of the Next Gen report, a study that stresses the importance of the digital economy and the role teaching Computer Science in schools plays in its growth.

We...

Mode7, makers of Frozen Synapse announced last month that they're working on a port of the game for the iPad. At the recent Explay Festival held I was able to snatch a brief chat with one of the studio's co-founders Paul Taylor. We talked about the current state of the...

International Short Film Competition: Part 3
15 Summers Later (Dir. Pedro Collantes) - A ridiculously funny short about two acquaintances happening upon each other after a 15 year gap. One of them becomes insensibly angry that the other has a boyfriend despite turning him down 15 years ago saying...

Today saw the second part of the short film competition and a screening of She-Monkeys. though the real stand out for the evening was Las Acacias, a slow-burning road movie that's more about the characters than anything else. As usual, reviews are below.

International Short Film Competition: Part 2
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Following the recent launch of Sustaination I was able to talk with its creator Ed Dowding. The 'dating site for food', connects food producers with local businesses to foster communities and help small farms exist whilst in competition with the big supermarkets. We talk about the difficulties of...

Today was the screening of the first part of the Leeds International Film Festival short film competition. It'll be continuing over the next few days and I'll be there to bring you the my thoughts on the shorts.

Today was also the first Northern screening of Inbred. This Yorkshire-set comedic...

I'm in Leeds for the 25th Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF for short). The programme continues to prove Leeds has one of the most diverse selections of on offer at any British film festival.

Unfortunately, the first three days overlapped with the Explay conference so I wasn't able to...

Day two of the Explay conference continued to cement the prevalence of developers and companies active in the South West. After registering attendees milled around the conference floor, where two gaming cabinets vied for their attention.

The first of the these is the mighty Plymatron, an arcade cabinet based...

I'm down in Plymouth this weekend covering the first, well sort of, Explay festival. This is the first long form Explay event, there was a single evening event held last year, an event that kicked off the Explay community network. The network of South Western developers was celebrating its one...

Recently I was able to talk with Emily Oliver, Content Producer at KEO Digital - the production company behind Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage - about their newest project Peoplefund.it.

Like an ethical Kickstarter, Peoplefund.it allows you to support projects that aim to do something...

News tends to break on the fastest medium. There are exceptions, such as The Guardian breaking the recent phone hacking scandal, however, as we move our media onto the internet this is becoming a rarer event. The shift is one of the things that prompted the calls that "Print is...

Can you remember the last time you clicked on an ad whilst watching a video of Muppets a cappella? This is what's worrying the owners for YouTube. Only a few users in a thousand actually respond to the advertising, a tiny proportion of their views make the site...