Interesting things afoot at the London Games Festival this year, with a fringe that’s promising to bring together a cross-section of intriguingly inventive people. Augmented reality, pervasive gaming, interactive social stuff, media art, more old-school techies and a stack that there isn’t really names for yet.

When I started exploring psychogeography, the performance/protest nexus and all those other children of Situationism some time back I don’t think anyone would have predicted quite the way that field has taken off. Hunter-Gatherers are inundated with business; Hide & Seek are off to Amsterdam for their second urban games fest; and the bush drums tell me about ARG-style things in development in several gleefully unlikely places. October’s going to be a fun month, I think.