Guy Cocker

This week I was lucky enough to interview games industry legend and all-round nice guy Jon Hare for the GameSpot UK podcast. In it, he talks about Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer, working with Nintendo, and his general opinion on the state of gaming. Anyone with a passing interest in the UK games industry should check it out.

I’m now back in the UK after my first trip to Australia. I managed to fit in Melbourne, Sydney and Port Douglas during my three weeks there — full photographic evidence is available on Flickr.

I recently visited Montreal in Canada to visit an unnamed publisher to see some unnamed games. While all will be revealed soon enough, I thought I’d post this video of me punching some snow during some of the downtime.

Flock is a new browser that my brother set me onto, and it looks pretty nifty. You can pull content from all your networking sites (Flickr, Facebook, WordPress etc) all from one simple interface. For example, you can post a photo on Flickr and then physically pull it across to one of your friends to see on Facebook. I’ll be checking more of it now, but it already looks like it will be one of my new favourite programs.

My brother has been working on these cool little dolls for an arts project called ‘Cakes and Crafts’. He gave me one as a gift on my last visit home, so I took some photos of the little monster lounging on my mum and dad’s leather chair.

Gil’s currently entering his last year at Edinburgh College of Art, and has been hand-making the dolls to sell locally at Sofi’s Bar in Leith. He’s posted about the story on his blog here.