Major Announcement Incoming We have a project. We have a team. We have a studio. And now, the final part of the picture – we have a publishing deal. This is the real birth of Solar Sail Games and we are absolutely elated. Our partner will be revealed in due course. Now comes the hard[…]

            Like little Gamedev hobos, Solar Sail Games have been on the road searching for a new place to call home. Well, to call ‘the office’. Studio. Thing. We’re moving on from our previous base in Whitechapel, where we shared space with some gamedev buddies. Window shopping for a workplace[…]

              Gamescom, the show that makes E3 look like a LAN party. Being a consumer show (as well as trade) it’s just huge. Vast. Swarming tides of humanity, like Day Z, except they’re not zombies, they’re cosplayers (so they may appear to be zombies). As well as brief chances[…]

          We like to draw inspiration from Alt games and strange old arcade machines. So, between publisher meetings, a visit to Novelty Automation seemed in order. Found in a tiny shop down a backstreet of Holborn, this attraction is the creation of polymath engineer and cartoonist Tim Hunkin. Like its twin venue[…]

As a fan of everything Retro, I visited the Power UP exhibition at the Science Museum in August. When I walked in it was incredible to see and hear 40 years of gaming history spread out in yellowing plastic before me. The event was huge, perhaps 200 assorted consoles and home computers, all playable. Watching[…]