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Final speakers and OH GOD IT’S ONLY TWO WEEKS AWAY

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Greg Povey

  Here we are, then. Two weeks to go. Massively sold out. A full speaker list of brilliant people. Badges somewhere on the way to our studio. A pub with money behind the bar (thanks, Sheridans). A bunch of nice … Continue reading →

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Introducing… (part 2)

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Greg Povey

Time to announce some more splendid speakers for this year’s event. They’re all solid gold eggs, so give them a warm welcome: Brendan Dawes. You know Brendan Dawes, he’s the man with opinions, a good shirt and excellent stationery.  He … Continue reading →

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What Happened? [Part 3]

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Richard Birkin

21. Nicholas ‘Feltron’ Felton sent us a message in the early hours of Friday morning with the terrible news that his place had been grounded (he was flying in from New York especially, you see). There was a resounding “bugger” … Continue reading →

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What Happened? [Part 2]

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Richard Birkin

11. Robin Burkinshaw & Matt Locke. Blimey. I heard a lot of gasps and little OMGs from the crowd behind me during this one, as Matt Locke read excerts (beautifully) from key points in the Alice & Kev story, asking … Continue reading →

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What Happened? [Part 1]

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Richard Birkin

I’ve now been sent more than a handful of accounts of what happened last Friday…so I’m going to do my own version with some links in it here… 1. Unwrapping the newspapers, as I’ve already said, was brill. 2. A … Continue reading →

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Chip Wrapping

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Richard Birkin

As we’ve ranted on about loads over the past few weeks, we got a newspaper done for Playful with the kind and gracious help of the folks at Newspaper Club. This was exciting for loads of reasons…we like those chaps, … Continue reading →

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The Order Of Things

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Richard Birkin

And there it is, and that’s what’ll happen and when. We can’t bloomin’ wait. We’ve also made a nice Google calendar programme here. Take note!

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Holy Molecules of Media Batman!

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Richard Birkin

For the past umpteen months we’ve had a slot in the programme reserved for Media Molecule – one of our favourite companies in the games industry. Their game ‘Little Big Planet’ came out the week of last year’s Playful, and … Continue reading →

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Dashingly Hot Off The Press

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Richard Birkin

We’ve been fit to bursting with this little secret since early last week…but were sworn to silence until this morning, Thursday 22nd October 2009 year of our lordly conference. We’re proud to add two new faces to this year’s line-up … Continue reading →

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Newspapers & Volunteers

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Richard Birkin

Thanks to everyone who has e-mailed us about volunteering to help at Playful ’09. We’ll be getting back to everyone by, we hope, tomorrow at the latest. We’ve got a list of fine folks, and we’ll be putting their names … Continue reading →

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