The Pickford Bros Press Cuttings

Search for Press Cutting posts

Code Britannia interview

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Sat, 20 Apr 2013

John and I had a nice chat with Dan Whitehead the other week, in a quiet Manchester pub, talking about our game development past. Dan wrote this up as a great 'Code Britannia' profile for Eurogamer. It's a nice read. We were disappointed to find out...

View full Press Cutting post »

Telegraph mini-review

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Thu, 4 Oct 2012

The venerable UK national newspaper The Telegraph yesterday published part two of their 500 Must-Have Apps supplement, covering all mobile platforms, which finished off with a nice little mention for Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint. The list wasn't just f...

View full Press Cutting post »

Fourth #GamesWeLike column

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Wed, 3 Oct 2012

After launching the #GamesWeLike initiative, to encourage indie game developers to freely promote each others' games (without any reciprocal promotion required in return), John and I were asked by PocketGamer.biz to write a monthly column for them on this ...

View full Press Cutting post »

Third #GamesWeLike column

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Sat, 1 Sep 2012

After launching the #GamesWeLike initiative, to encourage indie game developers to freely promote each others' games (without any reciprocal promotion required in return), John and I were asked by PocketGamer.biz to write a monthly column for them on this ...

View full Press Cutting post »

Second #GamesWeLike column

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Tue, 31 Jul 2012

After launching the #GamesWeLike initiative, to encourage indie game developers to freely promote each others' games (without any reciprocal promotion required in return), John and I were asked by PocketGamer.biz to write a monthly column for them on this ...

View full Press Cutting post »

First #GamesWeLike column

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Thu, 5 Jul 2012

After launching the #GamesWeLike initiative, to encourage indie game developers to freely promote each others' games (without any reciprocal promotion required in return), John and I were asked by PocketGamer.biz to write a monthly column for them on this ...

View full Press Cutting post »

Macworld review

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Tue, 12 Jun 2012

We've had a fabulous review on the Macworld website, summed up by the two words "GET IT". The rating of 3.5 out of 5 mice seems a little bit stingy when you read the copy, which is full of praise for the game, with such gems as: "And it's a textbook ...

View full Press Cutting post »

Pick of the Week - MacBreak Weekly #297

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Tue, 8 May 2012

Through the magic of twitter we were alerted to the MacBreak Weekly netcast video blog, where Jason Snell, editor of Macworld, was kind enough to name Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint as his pick of the week. The whole netcast is a great watch, but if you ...

View full Press Cutting post »

Guardian article about the ZX Spectrum

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Mon, 23 Apr 2012

I was interviewed briefly over the phone for this article in the Technology Blog of UK newspaper / website The Guardian, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It should have been John doing the interview really, as...

View full Press Cutting post »

Prototype on Retro Remakes

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Fri, 6 Apr 2012

The nice people over on RetroRemakes.com have picked up on the new prototype of I Sent My Monkey To The Moon, contained within version 2.0 of Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint on iOS. Our touch-screen play control demo reminds them of our mid-1980s 8-bit Ma...

View full Press Cutting post »