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Dark Water Studios releases trailer for upcoming game - Dogfighter.

Hi guys, wanted to share you all that Dark Water (the company I work for) have released a new trailer for their game Dogfighter. Will be availible for PC come spring :).

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Added by Aaron Donaghey on February 4, 2010 at 11:30am — 6 Comments

Dare 2010 calls for emerging game developers

Dare to be Digital is calling for teams of talented student programmers and artists to apply for this year’s competition. The Dare organising team are calling for teams with games ideas targeted for any platform including social networking sites, mobile phones, pc and any consoles, to apply online now.… Continue

Added by Brendan McGoran on February 2, 2010 at 9:33am — No Comments

Winning New Business, Marketing & Sales

Guys, if anyone is interested I've added a forum board to provide a Q&A service for anybody wanting help or advice with sales & marketing-related problems. If you haven't already picked this up, click the 'Forum' tab in the main menu bar and you'll see it there. If you have an issue or need a bit of help, ask the question and we can all chip in and try to help out. Continue

Added by Russell Moore on January 29, 2010 at 10:28am — No Comments

TV TUNES OUT OF NORTHERN IRELAND SAY MPS

Interesting post on the Northern Ireland Screen web site - http://ow.ly/10Gwn Here's how it starts. The link above will take you to the original post. Northern Ireland Affairs Committee - Select Committee Press Notice The UK’s major television companies have failed to portray the ordinary life, beauties, history and culture of Northern Ireland to the rest of the country, say MPs in a report published today. The BBC, Channel Four and other public serv… Continue

Added by Davy Sims on January 27, 2010 at 4:30pm — 5 Comments

SXSW Music 2010

As you are aware South by Southwest Music 2010 is fast approaching and once again Belfast City Council, through our support for the Creative Industries, will be supporting the event through a main music showcase, presence at the conference and exhibition and a new business to business networking… Continue

Added by Brendan McGoran on January 25, 2010 at 12:26pm — No Comments

Dare to be Digital 2010

Dare 2010.ppt

Please find attached information relating to Dare to be Digital 2010. I would be grateful if you could circulate etc to those who may be i… Continue

Added by Brendan McGoran on January 13, 2010 at 1:51pm — No Comments

Twitter is like a little blue trumpet!

I wrote a blog for my marketing information site, www.see-rm.com, a few days ago about some thoughts on Twitter and social marketing in general. Always keen to spread the word about how to build a better business, sell more stuff, keep your clients etc through relationship marketing - and build a few backlinks of course :) - the full article is available here:… Continue

Added by Russell Moore on January 12, 2010 at 2:40pm — 2 Comments

European Entrepreneurship Video Award 2010: Participate

In case anyone is interested or knows of anyone that would be - The European Commission is encouraging enterprising film lovers to prove their creativity and skills by producing a short video that deals with the following questions: What is entrepreneurship all about? What could encourage people to become entrepreneurs? What could counteract old prejudices and offer new visions of entrepreneurship?… Continue

Added by Brendan McGoran on January 8, 2010 at 8:45am — No Comments

Mountain High for iGeneration as Geldof's Ten Alps come calling...

Local Digital Marketing Company joins Ten Alps PLC to launch a new Ten Alps Vision operation in Northern Ireland As part of Ten Alps PLC’s emergence as a powerful force in marketing and digital communications in the UK, leading Belfast digital marketing agency, iGeneration has joined with Ten Alps Vision, the successful marketing communications and digital agency based in Edinburgh and Newcastle. Ten Alps Vision is the business created following the recent merger of Ten Al… Continue

Added by Matthew Scott on December 23, 2009 at 12:48am — No Comments

I'm asking Santa for something really big this Christmas...

Next year I'd like digital marketing to be given its true place by the companies and business leaders here in Belfast. I'd like them to understand how important digital is to the way they create and manage their businesses and that it isn't just part of that 'advertisingy bit' that you add on at the end when the production and accountancy are already done. I'd love them to understand that Marketing is about finding out what they should be doing, or making, or delivering - and to whom, where and… Continue

Added by Russell Moore on December 21, 2009 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Access exhibitors funding for GDC 2010

TIGA, in partnership with UK Trade and Investment Tradeshow Access Programme, is offering grants of £1400 for eligible businesses to attend GDC 2010. Between March 9-13, GDC returns to the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, for five days of learning, networking, and inspiration. Join this global community of programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, and business decision-makers as we convene to e… Continue

Added by Matt Johnston on December 17, 2009 at 3:07pm — No Comments

Digital Circle Update - December 2009

Welcome to the Digital Circle December update. We've got two events planned this month (both today) and a lobbying group started for South by SouthWest (SXSW) in March 2010. Digital Circle Sub-group: Investment and Funding Tuesday, December 8, 2009 from 4pm to 6pm. Venue: Momentum, NISOFT House, Ravenhill Business Park, Belfast This is a meeting of the Digital Circle Investment and Funding Group. The agenda of this group is to identify and counter challenges to digital media companies… Continue

Added by Matt Johnston on December 8, 2009 at 11:37am — No Comments

Small Firms Development Programme (Newtownabbey)

Download the application form. If your business is located in the N… Continue

Added by Matt Johnston on December 2, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Creative Collaborations 2010

Creative Collaborations flyer.doc Please find attached information on Creative Collaborations, a new programme from Belfast City Council, specifically designed to promote awareness of and access to procurement opportunities for Be… Continue

Added by Brendan McGoran on December 1, 2009 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Presentations from last week's HMRC R&d Tax Credits and EIS briefing

Things to take home: Talk to David Stewart at HMRC and explain the process of your business. Lots of businesses have managed to get (income) tax back from HMRC even though the owners didn't think they were doing R&D at first. Digital Circle 24.11.09.ppt (10 MB PPT) ORTUS are offering EIS certification for free until the end of 2009. EIS provides a lot of benefits to a business… Continue

Added by Matt Johnston on November 30, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Geldof Highlights 'Democratic Deficit' in Northern Ireland within Digital Britain

Northern Ireland will not have the opportunity to be part of a UK-WIDE pilot programme of new ways to deliver NEWS CONTENT and Media. The province is the only region within the UK to not get a pilot. Sir Bob Geldof recorded a video which was played this evening at the Slugger O'Toole Awards in Belfast the full transcript is Below OR you can watch the video here Please add your views- as potential developers and cre… Continue

Added by Matthew Scott on November 24, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Why not 'Take a Titanic Leap' for Habitat NI as we launch our iphone app 'Titanifacts'

We are about to officially launch our new iphone app and community site. Within the Titanifacts ‘app’ users will have the opportunity to view the documentary, ‘Titanic Island’ which highlights the amazing feats of engineering that were taking place over 100 years ago in Belfast. There are many contributions from key people including Una Reilly of Belfast Titanic Society and Dr Norman Apsley of NI Science Park. We hope… Continue

Added by John Bustard on November 24, 2009 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Chinwag — Digital Mission to SXSWi

Digital Mission to SXSWi is back for it's second year after the success of the mission to Austin in March 2009. Applications are only open until Friday 27th November - so not long left to get yer app in.... http://digital-mission.org/sxsw10 South by South West interactive (SXSWi) takes place in Austin, Texas from 12-16th March 2009 and applications are now open until Friday, 27th November. The festival features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technolo… Continue

Added by Andy McMillan on November 19, 2009 at 11:02am — No Comments

Breakfast with the BBC Trust

Every so often the full membership of the BBC Trust meets in Belfast. This is one of the out of London meetings shared by Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. In addition to meeting BBC staff, they meet with other stakeholders and interested parties to garner opinion and thoughts about the BBC and how it operates and the view from the Nation. This morning I had breakfast with the Chair Sir Michael Lyons, Rotha Johnston Tru… Continue

Added by Davy Sims on November 18, 2009 at 10:45am — No Comments

Holywood based company develops iPhone app for Grand Opera House

A local creative digital agency has developed a new mobile technology tool for the 114-year old Grand Opera House in a major step for the arts in Northern Ireland. iPhone users will

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Added by Matt Johnston on November 17, 2009 at 3:48pm — 3 Comments

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