In this seminar, Marsha Courneya will share her creative path and take us on a detour through the tangle of copyright law, showing examples of how it can be circumvented to return rights and power to creators.

In this edition of Games Lab, Dr Stephen Curtis examines the ways in which the Bard and his works have been used as the inspiration or setting for games, both card/board and digital. As well as a brief summary of the general state of Shakespearean games, Stephen discusses what the process of ‘gaming’ Shakespeare can offer to critical discussions of the plays and poems that make up his work.

In this edition of Games Lab we were joined by Dr Laura Mitchell, who outlined the appeal games have for business, particularly in the context of increasing motivation and productivity through affective experience.

In this edition of Games Lab we were joined by Network member John Lean who talked to us about the work that he has been conducting during his PhD, which involves looking at the capacity for play (and games) in higher education.

In this edition of Games Lab we were joined by Dr Dawn Stobbart from Lancaster University to talk to us about videogames and horror. Dawn has a forthcoming book entitled Videogames and Horror: From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!, and in this seminar we were treated to an exploration of both horror and terror in videogames, and the differences that they both present.