Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
On Saturday (and Sunday), BBC Radio Scotland's Business Scotland programme looked at the game industry in Scotland. What is it? Where is it? What does the new tax relief mean for companies creating games north of the border? The programme features several well known MD's, CEO's and entrepreneurs including Outplay Entertainment's Doug Hare, Ninja Kiwi's …
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ArcadeSushi.com has published its list of 2012's best games. Two games created in Scotland make the list. YoYo Games' suicide-im-up Karoshi and Cobra's BAFTA nominated iBomber Defense Pacific both make the list. Karoshi is number 85. The site says: Karoshi takes the age old video game concept of surviving and turns it upside down. In …
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Cobra's WWII-themed iBomber series encompasses top-down destruct-em-up games, tower defence games and more recently, a dual-stick shooter. The games are now in limited beta on iOS, PC and Mac, through Valve's digital distribution service Steam. However, not all PC users have been able to play and enjoy the games, since they were not available for …
Develop Magazine runs an annual list of 30 notable developers under the age of 30. The 2012 list was published yesterday and several individuals (and members of the Scottish games Network) feature prominently. We're big fans of celebrating and supporting new and emerging talent hereabouts, so allow us to also feature them prominently... This year's …
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Never a company to rest upon its day-glo yellow bubble wrap laurels, to experience the gleeful popping noise, Denki has been busy. The company has today released its latest title, WORD QUEST, available to play through a web browser near you, NOW. Word Quest is a bold new adventure into the wicked wizardly world of …
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Out now, just in time for Christmas, comes Save Santi the brand new game from Edinburgh's Inceptional. Save Santi is a retro-styled puzzler in which the player must alter each level to help a handful of cute, cuddly, fuzzy and otherwise lovely little critters to reach dear old St Nick and save his jolly old …
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We've just added a grand total of NINE new jobs to the Scottish Games Network JOBS page this morning. They're all from game developers or technology companies and cover a huge range of roles, across Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh. This is our biggest JOBS update ever - and there are more to come. If you're …
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We're massive fans of companies helping each other out. Everybody wins. So when Dundee's Serious Parody contacted us to ask if we could mention their support of another indie developing a wrestling title, we couldn't very well say no. Here's the official word... Serious Parody today announced that the company are throwing their support behind …
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One Thumb Mobile is one of the country's most experienced mobile developers. Based in central Glasgow, the company has worked with some very large licenses, media and entertainment companies to produce branded games and apps for every variety of mobile. IN 2011 the company launched an original new massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG for those …
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Less than a week after the game was released, Hunted Cow has taken the decision to remove Battle Dungeon from the Apple App Store, thanks to massive piracy making the game's server costs unsustainable. Initial demand highlighted a few issues with the server to the company, who looked into the game's usage to discover that …
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