Following the first video last October, the Women of Xbox UK group has once again brought together women from across Xbox to discuss their experiences in the games industry. Celebrating International Women’s Day and reflecting this year’s theme of #ChooseToChallenge, this edition of Women of Xbox UK features Louise O’Connor (Everwild Executive Producer, Rare) in…
Read moreBlood, sweat, mud and a lot of money raised for SpecialEffect! A week ago, on June 4th, twenty of the Playground team completed the Wolf Run on the Stanford Hall Estate in Leicestershire. The Wolf Run is a ten-kilometer course through dense woodland, along intricate trails, wading through rivers and swimming across lakes. This is…
READ MORELast month we celebrated the release of Forza Horizon 3 with another epic wrap party. The venue this time was Bedford Street Bar in Leamington Spa where we took over the venue for the evening. With the Horizon Festival set in Australia the venue was decorated accordingly with even the DJ dressing as Crocodile Dundee!…
READ MOREFor Twin Town 16 the guys at Rebellion Automotive provided us a free wrap for the car using off cuts of orange and some professionally printed vinyl stickers which they donated. Phil, the owner of Rebellion, and his team had been working flat out that day to make sure it was finished in time. It was everything…
READ MOREDrive from Witney to Le Touquet and back in a car costing no more than £500 you say? The Twin Town Challenge, in aid of the SpecialEffect charity, is back and Playground are not only sponsoring again – this time we have a team taking part. Our race crew, consisting of PG car obsessives Andrew,…
READ MOREMacGregor Children’s Ward at Warwick Hospital The MacGregor Ward at Warwick Hospital, part of the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, is a children’s ward with 18 beds and based not far from our studio in Leamington Spa. It was brought to our attention that whilst they had some video games equipment it was rather…
READ MOREThe Summer Barbecue has become something of a tradition at Playground over the years. It’s a chance for the extended Playground family – staff, partners and kids – to get together and enjoy a summer’s afternoon of food, drink and fun. This year’s event was held at The Stag at Offchurch, a beautiful country pub…
READ MOREPlayground Games is five years old! To celebrate, we had a party. In all honesty we have parties quite a lot, but this one was special: a chance to mark a milestone with the team who were here at the start, and the many who have joined us along the way. The party had all the…
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