Code club is a UK nationwide network of after school coding sessions targeted at children aged between 9 and 11. The goal is to organize clubs in over 25% of the primary schools in England by the end of 2015. Right now, with the help…
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Code club is a UK nationwide network of after school coding sessions targeted at children aged between 9 and 11. The goal is to organize clubs in over 25% of the primary schools in England by the end of 2015. Right now, with the help…
On this week’s podcast regular host Ian Kane is joined by Alex Bleau, Barnaby Smith and Evan Harris. This weeks episode sees them discussing in depth the idea of the freemium model in games, the pros and cons and their personal opinions about it all….
This post is number 8 from the series of articles we started about games that have taken too much of our time (some of them still do). Today’s game is ElastoMania. The aim of the game is to control a motorbike rider, and complete each level by…
Quite often we pick up and play retro games and sometimes we leave the game running just so we can hear the music. Since this method isn’t very productive, we tried to search for a radio station that could satisfy our need for retro hits….
This post is number 7 from the series of articles we started about games that have taken too much of our time (some of them still do). Today’s game is Can Knockdown – You start the game presented with a single ball and 3 cans to knockdown….
This post is number 6 from the series of articles we started about games that have taken too much of our time (some of them still do). Today’s game is PixEvo – The Fountain from EvilDog. You start out as a square just a bit bigger than…
On this week’s podcast regular host Ian Kane is joined by Alex Bleau and Head of Art James Horn. They discuss Google’s announcement related to 15,000 Raspberry Pie computers being distributed through UK schools and the National Rifle Association’s new controversial shooting practice game being given a…
This post is number 5 from the series of articles we started last week about games that have taken too much of our time (some of them still do). Today’s game is Steamlands from Nitrome. Basically, Europe is in ruins after a great war and after…
With all the great and awesome buildings and creations in Minecraft, it was only a matter of time until someone came up with a service to offer you real 3D models of what you made. You know, so you can justify those 200 something hours…
Three videos caught my eyes today. First off, Hotline Miami. I talked about the game in one of our articles and if I remember correctly, we even expressed how much some of us at Kwalee like it. This morning, I find a video about Hotline…
This is the fourth post for a series of articles we started last week about games that have taken too much of our time (some of them still do). Today’s game is “This is the only level”. And just like the title says, the game…
This is the third post for a series of articles we started this week about games that have taken too much of our time (some of them still do). Since it’s Friday and you have the weekend ahead, today’s game is Realm of the Mad…
On this week’s podcast regular host Ian Kane is joined by Alex Bleau and Finance Manager Tom Aherne. They discuss Tom’s recent article on the Kwalee blog where he looked at 13 successfully monetized free to play games and put the results of his findings…
The Minister of Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, together with Chris White MP are in Leamington Spa today to visit video game companies and they started the day with Kwalee. After a cup of coffee, we started the “tour” talking about the company,…
We didn’t make it this year at the Mobile Games Forum in London so we had to settle with following the twitter hashtag and see what people were talking about. Here are a few tweets that caught our attention. You can still follow the hashtag…
I think most people at some point in their lives will quit a job. If you think about it, that is the moment when you want attention, especially from other potential employers or contractors. So it’s safe to say that if you can quit in…
On monday we started this series of articles to briefly talk and recommend a game once every 2 days. Not just any games, but those that we have spent a lot of time playing (to the point of obsession and even losing weight and sleep)….
One of the things Kwalee is interested in for games currently in development is getting free to play right. That means finding the right balance between what people pay for and what they play for. While a lot of Kwalee staff have good knowledge of…
We should have started this article series on Friday when it started snowing but Monday is good as well. So what is G,GE about? Well, in case it wasn’t obvious, we play a lot of video games: mobile, console, desktop, paid or free, old games, new…
For our second podcast of 2013 Ian is joined by his estranged co-host Alexei Lundgard once again, as the old team reunite and also recruit Barnaby Smith to come and share his thoughts with us. They get stuck in to the female gamers debate, the…