http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 11:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/10/paranoid-after-reading-hypnotist-paul-mckenna/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/10/paranoid-after-reading-hypnotist-paul-mckenna/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:48:58 +0000 David Crookes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=31460 I've started to form a growing fascination with self-help books, in particular those by hypnotist Paul McKenna, despite fears they may have me dancing like a chicken by the time the accompanying CD ends.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/10/paranoid-after-reading-hypnotist-paul-mckenna/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/24/whats-happened-to-british-gaming/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/24/whats-happened-to-british-gaming/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:49:40 +0000 David Crookes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=17858 The videogame industry in the UK is rather like Manchester City. Not the City of today. No, that's where it would like to be. We're talking the City of yesterday when it was slipping down the league because no-one was offering assistance.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/24/whats-happened-to-british-gaming/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/24/if-your-yeds-aw-mugglt-up/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/24/if-your-yeds-aw-mugglt-up/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:41:06 +0000 David Crookes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=15452 ...then fear not because help is close to hand. For an iPhone app has been launched to assist people struggling to understand the Wigan dialect.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/24/if-your-yeds-aw-mugglt-up/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/18/best-of-british-gaming-peter-molyneux/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/18/best-of-british-gaming-peter-molyneux/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:00:13 +0000 David Crookes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=8964 He's the man behind the Fable series but Peter Molyneux's success is no tall tale. In the final part of our look at British gaming greats, he talks to David Crookes about his regrets and hopes.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/18/best-of-british-gaming-peter-molyneux/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/17/best-of-british-gaming-the-oliver-twins/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/17/best-of-british-gaming-the-oliver-twins/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:37:22 +0000 David Crookes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=8959 Today we profile not at one key British developer but two: brothers Philip and Andew Oliver. David Crookes looks back at their eggs-citing career.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/17/best-of-british-gaming-the-oliver-twins/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/16/best-of-british-gaming-david-braben/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/16/best-of-british-gaming-david-braben/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:38:22 +0000 David Crookes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=8936 In profiling some of the top British developers of all time, one man could never be left out. David Crookes talks to David Braben about the production of the 3D classic, Elite.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/16/best-of-british-gaming-david-braben/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/15/best-of-british-gaming-charles-cecil/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/15/best-of-british-gaming-charles-cecil/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:37:56 +0000 David Crookes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=8880 In the second of our five-part series profiling the developers who have helped put the UK on the videogame map, David Crookes interviews adventure game stalwart Charles Cecil.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/15/best-of-british-gaming-charles-cecil/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/14/best-of-british-gaming-the-falcus-brothers/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/14/best-of-british-gaming-the-falcus-brothers/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:55:19 +0000 David Crookes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=8829 As an exhibition celebrating the best of British gaming gets underway in the North East of England, David Crookes kicks off a week profiling the people who helped put the UK on the videogame map.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/14/best-of-british-gaming-the-falcus-brothers/feed/ 1