Paul Munford, director of communications at Babel Media has given us a mention in his monthly column for Develop magazines, specifically relating to our GTIP API.

Indie Magazine have posted a nice article based on our two recent press releases. You can read it here.

GamesIndustry.biz has interviewed Geraint Bungay, head of Games at BT Openworld, one of our larger clients.

GI: How important is community management (as opposed to technical management) in an operation like this?
GB: Incredibly. We are very lucky to have a company such as AlienPants running our community management, without quality community management an online game service soon starts to fragment and fall apart. Online gaming is all about community in my opinion, but every community needs focal points and leaders, people who are willing to work on behalf of the community as a whole, if you have bad, or no, people on this your service will soon suffer.

The BBC has posted a news item about the forthcoming Games Domain Online Championships, quoting our very own Mikeybear at length.

Mike Large, community co-ordinator at Alien Pants, said all the online games will be supervised by an administrator to ensure there is no cheating and the competition is fair.

You can read the full news story over on the BBC website.

PC Gamer give us a couple of mentions (on page 88 of issue #106) in an article relating to GamesDomain's online multiplayer service.

"The service is being designed to handle at least 4,500 simultaneous gamers - all of whom will be offered customer support 24 hours a day via community management team AlienPants. The team have many ex-Barrysworld and XSReality employees among their number, but AlienPants' role isn't just to offer troubleshooting - they're also planning to organise regular leagues and tournaments."

Edge give us an oblique mention (on page 12 of issue #106) in an article relating to our management of GamesDomain's online multiplayer service.

"Then there's customer support from Alien Pants, whichwill be running leagues and competitions, and encourage the community to build."

CTW gave us a mention based on our press release from a couple of weeks ago. Cro was invited to write a weekly column for the trade paper as well, and sent off his first one last week. It's not been published yet, but that won't stop him from sending off the second one tomorrow afternoon.