Don't know if you've heard, but the Brighton Fringe Festival starts on the 3^rd May and this year we've decided to have a break from looking at computer monitors to show you our lovely art. There are 11 of us showing work that includes painting, animation, sound, sculpture/ 3D and photography.

The Relentless Art Show starts 3^rd May and runs till the 11^th, is free to get in, and easy to find right in the heart of Brighton at Imperial Arcade (with Starbucks at one end). There's no excuse to miss out!

People keep asking when Buzz!: Quiz TV will be released. Street date announcements are the domain of the publisher so we won't go into detail, but the final revisions have been made to the wireless buzzers, they've been in manufacturing for a little while and they've started their slow boat ride from China. In the mean time we've been making some tweaks to the network back end and polishing up the MyBuzz site where you'll be able to author your own quizzes.

Hopefully some of you got a chance to play the game at Play Live. If not, you can see a bit more of Buzz PS3 in action on Gamespot's latest Start Select show.

Buzz! has a nice six page article in the latest Edge magazine. Inside is an exclusive preview of Buzz!: Quiz Master on PSP. There was always some scepticism that a handheld version of Buzz! would work, so it's nice that it was well received. Kudos to our producer, Jez, and our development partners over at Curve Studios.

Buzz!: Quiz TV is put through its paces with Caspar and Dan talking about the online modes and user-generated-content features.

Best of all, and warranting the cover price on its own, is our guide to buzzer grips which will give you a critical edge in your games of Buzz. It was also an opportunity for Andy to showcase his talents as a hand model.

If you're looking for David's GDC presentation Your Shameful Secret Addiction to Crunch, then the slides themselves are nothing more than pictures with a few memory prompts. You might want to read his post at gamewatch.org, some notes from an IGDA presentation or an interview that Andy and David did with gi.biz a while back. If you want the video from Triumph of the Nerds, you can find it here.

If that still leaves questions un-answered then feel free to get in touch.

Wednesdays don't get much better than this. An oversized mystery box arrived at Relentless Towers all the way from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Inside? Rock Band!

Look at Pete, Ben and Caspar. Living the dream.

Harmonix, you'll be on our Christmas card list forever.

Next Wednesday (13^th Feb) we'll be exhibiting at the Brighton Digital Media Job Fair, along with other local media types including NCSoft and Second Life creators Linden Lab. Proceedings start at midday and run into the evening. If Sony let us we'll be showing off our latest wares, so it will be a good chance to talk to us and find out what we're up to.

The event is held right next to the station, so if you're out of town it's easy to get to.

How can our least controversial game cause the most controversy? It seems that certain papers treated Buzz!: The Schools Quiz with a degree of sensationalism and even brought in heavyweight anti-videogamer Jack Thompson to lend support. The plot thickened as Jack denied the quotes a few days later.

Regardless, other papers are giving the game some positive reviews. What do we know about selling newspapers anyway?

Iain Simons, director of the Gamecity event in Nottingham, has released an excellent new book called Inside Game Design. It features an interview with David and Andy plus some behind the scenes shots and previously-unseen concept art, and dates back to early last year when David confidently predicted that we wouldn't grow past fifty employees. Hrm...

Also featured are our good friends at Freestyle, Introversion and Media Molecule along with many more great developers large and small. Worth a look!

What with all the excitement of Christmas and Buzz PS3's sprint to final we almost forgot about the release of Buzz!: The Schools Quiz. It's the fruit of our affair with the Department for Education and Skills and we're really pleased Sony felt it should see life outside of the classroom.

Buzz!: The Schools Quiz is similar to the Buzz! games you know and love, but with one important difference: since the questions are designed for 7-11 year olds, these are questions you really should know. Ask yourself: Which of the following words is not a homophone? A) Reign, B) Rain, C) Rane, D) Rein.

Don't let the kids show you up. 

Our Creative Director, David Amor, is interviewed on Next-Gen website today and talks about the art of making social games and why games don't get the same viewing figures as Lost.

Season 4 starts in February incidentally.