Author: Laura

  • The Archives – Scott

    Our young Scott takes a look back at some of his favourite blogs and features.

  • Chillingo and Samsung announce partnership to support Indie devs

    Mobile publisher Chillingo, and maker of all things shiny, Samsung are teaming up to create the The “100% Indie” developer program to give the mobile developer community a boost which will hopefully result in greater success for all involved. The program starts on March 4th, when all Indie Developers can visit 100percentindie.com to submit their work to Samsung’s “100%…

  • We Play Games – First of All

    Paul, Charlotte & Anthony give us a bite-sized lowdown on what they’ve been up to.

  • Bored? Game! – Star Wars: The Card Game

    Charlotte doesn’t like card games. “But it’s not one of those card games”, I explained. “No dealer, Jokers or Aces. Plus, there’ll be wine”. Bribery. If you want reluctant people to play games with you, always go for the bribery. To say Star Wars: The Card Game comes in a really nice box will no…

  • Chimpact

    Flinging chimps through a jungle in an attempt to collect bananas and gems might seem like animal cruelty but our chimptastic hero, Chuck, was clearly born for this line of work. Using your finger to pull back elastic vines, to use as catapults Angry Birds style, launches Chuck up into the air through a jungle…

  • Personnel Files – Loz

      Name: Loz, or Laura if you want to get technical! Age: 30 Current Location: London, UK. First gaming memory: Playing text adventures or Treasure Island on the Commodore Plus 4/ C16 when I was about 4-5, although I am told my interest started much earlier than I remember! Longest gaming session: probably around 15 hours…

  • The Archives – Michael

    Michael ‘Chuckles’ Slevin joined Ready Up when he was just a wee lad, and, in the  time he’s been here we’ve seen him grow and mature into a wise, and sensible young man (no, not really). He has written some fabulous words for us, though, and I’ve asked him to choose his three favourite blasts…

  • Personnel Files – Tony

    Name: Tony Chandler Age: 34 Current location: Hemel Hempstead First gaming memory: My memories are mostly a confused mess, and I often can’t remember what happened yesterday. I do remember a really old game, though, called Radar Rat Race on Vic 20. For those of you too young to remember the Vic 20, it look exactly…

  • The Archives – Duncan

    Duncan: This was probably the most inevitable blog I was ever going to write in my life. I’m glad that back in 2010, when my sleep deprivation and caffeine addiction was much higher than it was now, that I did document this night of gaming. Even reading it back now I don’t remember writing a…

  • Explosive Alan – Homework: Robots

    [vimeo 52738294 width=550 height=310] We’re subscribers to the Terminator school of robotic evolution theory, which is to say that we’re pretty certain one day they will develop sufficient self-awareness to turn on their creators and rule over what remains of our planet while those humans that remain form small pockets of resistance. Also: time travel!…