Jamie Sefton
@seffers007.bsky.social
Ex-PC Zone editor, MD Northern England games networks @GameRepublic & @gamayo. Electronic music via Wilton (now on @CastlesInSpace) - and Ramraid. Nintendo nut. LUFC.
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
My personal game of the year - easy choice.
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My personal game of the year - easy choice.
Great fun last night at our Christmas party - what isn't mentioned in the story is that I did the entire quiz-hosting in my socks - the combination of my Super Mario 64 trainers and Christmas jumper with cinema carpet, created so much static, it kept giving me shocks and shorting out my laptop...
Wow what a night! Thanks to all who joined the Game Republic Legendary Quiz. The raffle raised £510 for @specialeffect.org.uk 🥰 Thanks to sponsors AMD, Lenovo, Copilot+PC with Escape Technology
🎄🎄Full story with a spectacular array of photos 🎄🎄
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🎄🎄Full story with a spectacular array of photos 🎄🎄
gamerepublic.net/news/christm...
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Christmas Party Crowns New Quiz Champions - Game Republic
Twenty teams of game developers from across The North alongside services and educators joined together in Christmas jumpers and hats for Game Republic's
gamerepublic.net
December 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Great fun last night at our Christmas party - what isn't mentioned in the story is that I did the entire quiz-hosting in my socks - the combination of my Super Mario 64 trainers and Christmas jumper with cinema carpet, created so much static, it kept giving me shocks and shorting out my laptop...
What a game. Leeds 3 Liverpool 3. Football eh?
December 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What a game. Leeds 3 Liverpool 3. Football eh?
Thanks for the reminder of this @byronicman.bsky.social (not). 59 mins to go...
I just backed Vectrex Mini on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...
I just backed Vectrex Mini on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...
Vectrex Mini
The best vector console is back!
www.kickstarter.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thanks for the reminder of this @byronicman.bsky.social (not). 59 mins to go...
I just backed Vectrex Mini on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...
I just backed Vectrex Mini on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/185...
Just another normal weekend for us…
Wow! @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social was amazing - thanks to the brilliant #indiegamedevs that joined the Game Republic zone! #gamedev
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Just another normal weekend for us…
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A simply incredible wordsmith. Brazil alone, never mind Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Last Crusade and Empire of the Sun. What a legacy. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A simply incredible wordsmith. Brazil alone, never mind Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Last Crusade and Empire of the Sun. What a legacy. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
My interview with legendary producer Trevor Horn has gone live on @musicradar.com.web.brid.gy. Had a lovely chat about Welcome to the Pleasuredome, playing live, AI in music and working with Bloc Party. www.musicradar.com/artists/it-w...
"It was the best-sounding piece of kit ever, but they were so up themselves. We had so many arguments with them when we first bought it": Trevor Horn on the pioneering synth that defined the sound of ...
Legendary producer Trevor Horn talks exclusively to MusicRadar about his upcoming "mega-tour", the changing face of the music industry, recording Welcome to the Pleasuredome, and why AI is "phony"
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November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My interview with legendary producer Trevor Horn has gone live on @musicradar.com.web.brid.gy. Had a lovely chat about Welcome to the Pleasuredome, playing live, AI in music and working with Bloc Party. www.musicradar.com/artists/it-w...
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Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
The Radiophonic Workshop – Adventures In Time And Space
“I first came across Desmond Briscoe on the moon!” laughs Dick Mills. “Plot On The Moon was a radio serial about two mad scientists who went to the moon and – as you do – fell in love with a Moon M…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
Great BBC Archive doc here "What is comedy?" featuring an always-smoking Marty Feldman interviewing fellow comics and writers including Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, Eric Morecambe and more. Definitely of its time (very male) but still essential for comedy nerds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0it...
1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Great BBC Archive doc here "What is comedy?" featuring an always-smoking Marty Feldman interviewing fellow comics and writers including Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, Eric Morecambe and more. Definitely of its time (very male) but still essential for comedy nerds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0it...
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Am sort of helping out with this gig next year, so if you could all buy tickets to it, that'd be great, ta: www.seetickets.com/event/pye-co...
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Am sort of helping out with this gig next year, so if you could all buy tickets to it, that'd be great, ta: www.seetickets.com/event/pye-co...
Shocking. The Stone Roses were incredible but also Mani’s bass on those Primal Scream records was brilliant. RIP.
Farewell to Gary “Mani” Mounfield, the bassist for the Stone Roses who later joined Primal Scream.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield of Stone Roses dead at 63 - latest tributes
The musician rose to fame with the Stone Roses in the 1980s
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Shocking. The Stone Roses were incredible but also Mani’s bass on those Primal Scream records was brilliant. RIP.
Florian Schneider's (Kraftwerk) EMS Synthi just sold at auction for $90,000! The V&A want to exhibit it too apparently. Auction still live - hundreds of other items for sale.
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Florian Schneider's (Kraftwerk) EMS Synthi just sold at auction for $90,000! The V&A want to exhibit it too apparently. Auction still live - hundreds of other items for sale.
Scoootlaaaaannnddddd!!!
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Scoootlaaaaannnddddd!!!
Fruitful trip to Sore Thumb Retro Games in York yesterday! This “dog bone” controller Famicom is the only Nintendo console I didn’t have.
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Fruitful trip to Sore Thumb Retro Games in York yesterday! This “dog bone” controller Famicom is the only Nintendo console I didn’t have.
Good night raving at the 1-in-12 in Bradford (1st time in 30 years) with acts including Gus Bousfield, Flash Cassette and Utah Saints! @markoswin.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Good night raving at the 1-in-12 in Bradford (1st time in 30 years) with acts including Gus Bousfield, Flash Cassette and Utah Saints! @markoswin.bsky.social
Also great to reward & recognise our game dev community at @gamayo.bsky.social last night with the GR Awards. Personal highlight was giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to Ian Stewart, founder of Gremlin Graphics. Thanks @keefstuart.bsky.social for being Boss Judge! gamerepublic.net/news/winners...
Winners of the Game Republic Awards revealed - Game Republic
Over 500 game developers joined together from across The North and Scotland to celebrate games talent at GaMaYo on 13th November when the Game Republic Awards
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November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Also great to reward & recognise our game dev community at @gamayo.bsky.social last night with the GR Awards. Personal highlight was giving a Lifetime Achievement Award to Ian Stewart, founder of Gremlin Graphics. Thanks @keefstuart.bsky.social for being Boss Judge! gamerepublic.net/news/winners...
Really good fun at @gamayo.bsky.social yesterday at WX in Wakefield - 500 games industry folks there with 68 playable games from the North and Scotland! gamayo.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...
Biggest Ever GaMaYo Brings North and Scotland Together - The Game Developer Network
MD of Game Republic Jamie Sefton described GaMaYo #25 at WX in Wakefield as "buzzing" as over 500 developers from across The North and Scotland gathered for
gamayo.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Really good fun at @gamayo.bsky.social yesterday at WX in Wakefield - 500 games industry folks there with 68 playable games from the North and Scotland! gamayo.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...
WANT!
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
WANT!
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More details on our visit to Valve on the brand-new DF website, kicking off with everything you need to know about the new Steam Machine: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/han...
Hands-On with Steam Machine: Valve's New PC/Console Hybrid
An irresistible form-factor, but what about performance?
www.digitalfoundry.net
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
More details on our visit to Valve on the brand-new DF website, kicking off with everything you need to know about the new Steam Machine: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/han...
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BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
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Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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GaMaYo and the GR Awards on Thursday is…. Sold Out.
Get in touch if you want to go on a waitlist for spare tickets #indiegamedev #gamedev
Get in touch if you want to go on a waitlist for spare tickets #indiegamedev #gamedev
the word sold out is made out of colorful squares
ALT: the word sold out is made out of colorful squares
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November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
GaMaYo and the GR Awards on Thursday is…. Sold Out.
Get in touch if you want to go on a waitlist for spare tickets #indiegamedev #gamedev
Get in touch if you want to go on a waitlist for spare tickets #indiegamedev #gamedev
Really enjoying the #switchedon electronic music festival in Whitby! Everyday Dust, Hidden Britain, Lines of Silence, Me Loss Me, Mike Dickinson & more. Ably hosted by @bobfischer.bsky.social!
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Really enjoying the #switchedon electronic music festival in Whitby! Everyday Dust, Hidden Britain, Lines of Silence, Me Loss Me, Mike Dickinson & more. Ably hosted by @bobfischer.bsky.social!
The Celebrity Traitors - absolutely fucking brilliant.
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Celebrity Traitors - absolutely fucking brilliant.