Gamescom is the world's largest video games event, which combines industry and consumer audiences, creating a unique opportunity to do business and hit potential players, over the course of five days - 21st-25th August, 2013. UKIE, has created a hugely successful games pavilion for British games companies over the last few years, working with UK …
Dungeon Smash – Coming Soon To Xbox Live Arcade
Dungeon Smash is a brand new Xbox Live Indie game, from Haiku Interactive in Edinburgh. The game is a re-imagining of the classic arcade title, Gauntlet, where players must explore multiple levels of an infested dungeon, fighting off enemies, finding provisions and seeking the kidnapped princess. The game promises some real old-school arcade action, using …
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Edinburgh Man Becomes (a) God Thanks To Video Game
Bryan Henderson, all praise his mightiness, an unassuming chap from Edinburgh has become supreme deity with a near infinite power of life and death over an entire population, thanks to his ineffable mastery over video games. In his wisdom, Mr Henderson (praise him unto the furthest stars) downloaded Curiosity, an 'experiment' for iOS created by …
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Cobra Launches Massive Promotional Campaign With The Sun
The mark the fourth anniversary of iBomber, Cobra Mobile has launched a major promotional campaign with The Sun newspaper, giving away 50,000 copies of iBomber Defense Pacific, worth around £100,000. Readers of The Sun can visit the paper's website to pick up a promotional code, which will allow them to download the game for iOS. In …
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Dope Stars Inc Tracks Hit APB Reloaded
The last update to APB Reloaded, didn't just add new content, game types, items and vehicles, it added music too. APB developer Reloaded Productions and industrial rock band Dope Stars Inc. have signed an agreement which bring three tracks from the band's latest album UltraWired to the APB Reloaded soundtrack. The tracks Lies Irae, No …
Unity: Now Free For Mobile Developers
While Microsoft's Xbox One reveal soaked up the headlines this week, another announcement from a games technology company could mean an awful lot more to Scotland's game development community (and it is a community). Unity is the development platform of choice for a growing number of studios, as it allows a game to be developed …
Xbox One – What It Is, What It Does – We Think
UPDATED:Â We originally stated that the Xbox One could emulate existing Xbox 360 games. Â It's now clear Xbox One will not offer emulation of Xbox 360, Xbox Live or Xbox indie games. Our non-games readers might have missed the excitement, buzz, then deluge of social media updates, from developers, journalists, games industry pundits, analysts and gamers …
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Using Social Media
The following was originally posted on the Guerilla Tea developer blog. Since we started Guerilla Tea in 2011, the use of social media has been hugely important to us. I’ve wanted to share some of my thoughts on our approach for a while, so this week’s blog seems like a good opportunity. One thing we have learned …
FREE LIGHT HERO!
Inceptional's Light Hero is FREE for one week only. Â Yes, until May 27th, you can pick up Light Hero - for no money whatsoever - for your iPhone, Mac or PC. If you complete the game, you could even win up to $100,000... Light Hero is a retro style arcade space shooter where the goal …
Dare to be Digital Announces Development Mentors
Dare to be Digital, the world's leading competition for student game developers has announced the developer accord members for the 2013 event. Developer accord members are companies who give up time to provide guidance and mentoring for the 15 teams which will be developing games for nine weeks over the summer. This year, the teams …
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