GameCity is our annual festival, a city-wide celebration and exploration of videogame culture for everyone. We’re currently ramping up production on this year’s GameCity5, which despite the global recession and culture of austerity – is determined not to compromise the quality of the annual videogame festival…

The full low-down of our archive can be found (soon) in the GameCityWiki, but in lieu of that here’s a brief round-up of what you missed…

GameCity Squared (2009)

GameCity Squared saw our first big tent in the Square and biggest festival yet, with Masaya Matsuura headlining, Crysis recreated live, Braben and Bell reunited to celebrate 25 years of Elite, a LEGO Rock festival, a live performance of ThatGameCompany’s amazing ‘Flower’, Rebecca Mayes playing live, Feargal Sharkey arguing over a hearty curry lunch and lots more besides.

GameCity Three (2008)

Alex Evans visited GameCity on the eve of LittleBigPlanet’s release to headline 2009, delivering his speech from within the awesome Gatecrasher nightclub. We also launched the National Videogame Archive with a Director Commentary on Goldeneye 64 from Martin Hollis and David Doak, David Jaffe joined us live from Santa Monica, Harmonix talked Rock Band and donated prototype controllers to the archive and Jonathan Coulton performed live. Mostly though, this year was about Zombies and us breaking (albeit briefly) the World Record for the largest ever gathering.

GameCity Two (2007)

Keita Takahashi made his first of many trips to Nottingham this year to give a first ever public preview of Noby Noby Boy – before he even began to start to design a playground. Other amazing stuff included the World Premiere of Danny Ledonne’s documentary, ‘Playing Columbine’, David Braben talking ‘The Insider’ and the awesome Alexey Pajitnov joining us to celebrate Tetris.

GameCity (2006)

The first ever GameCity saw Lorne Lanning fly in to announce his first movie project, ‘Citizen Siege’, Jamie Fristrom talked Spider-Man 2, Media Molecule make their first EVER public appearance, Free Radical Design held the Gong of Terror and Richard Jacques performed an extraordinary solo Pianoforte SEGA retrospective concert in a 14th Century Church.