Outplay Entertainment, the venture backed entertainment company in Dundee has officially released its latest title, Idol Words on the Apple App Store. Billed as a cross between a word search and bingo, Idol Words challenges players to create high scoring words and clearing their playing board of letter tiles. We asked Richard Hare, president of Outplay where …
New Company, New Game: Cutant Mutant Invasion From Flipware
We're always delighted to find out about a new company and working in and around Scotland's interactive sector. So please welcome Glasgow's Flipware and their first title, Cutant Mutant Invasion. The company was founded by former members of mobile development studios Tricast Media, creators of the first J2ME UI toolkit and Picsel Technologies, the developer …
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Inceptional’s Light Hero Blasts Onto iOS
Edinburgh's Inceptional hit the headlines late last year, with their initial release Save Santi, as well as news that the company was not the Hollywood movie, Inception. Now Inceptional is back with its second title, Light Hero, a defiantly retro-styled shoot-em-up (or 'shmup' if you want to sound like you're down with the gamers...), out …
Food Run out today on iOS – Forget Meals on Wheels, Pixels On Toast serves up Eggs on Legs.
Out today on iOS, quirky platformer Food Run comes from Edinburgh based one-man-developer Pixels On Toast, also known as Kevin Ng. With Rockstar Games, EA and Warthog sitting happily on his CV, Ng formed Pixels On Toast in 2010 and produced titles WordCrasher and Kick Flick Soccer. Food Run is his follow up and we …
The Friday Financials – Minecraft XBLA & 40 Billion Apps
Rounding up the first week back at work in 2013, we have two stories highlighting the way the global video games market has changed - and how it promises to continue changing in 2013... First up, Minecraft. Every reader should, by now, be familiar with Mojang's LEGO-em-up. A combination of virtual world builder, role playing …
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Cobra’s Storm In A Teacup – First Commercial Release For Raspberry Pi
Scotland has proven itself a pioneer once more. Cobra in Dundee made history yesterday by releasing the first commercially available software for the astounding Raspberry Pi computer. The company's critically acclaimed Storm In A Teacup title joined popular free software applications on the Pi Store, such as Libre Office and Asterisk, as well as freely …
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Apple’s App Store Hits 1,000,000 Apps
From yesterday's Venturebeat: Apple's App Store has hit the 1,000,000 apps mark, according to social app discovery company Appsfire, with more than 30,000 Apps being submitted to Apple each and every month. The App store launched in July 2008. In October 2012, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that over 35 BILLION apps had been downloaded …
Yeti Sighting In Scotland
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of years of anecdotal sightings, reports and intriguingly blurry photos, there has been no definitive proof of the existence of mysterious cryptids such as the yeti, sasquatch or skunk ape. Reports of flying bipedal hominids are even rarer. One thinks of John Keel's experiences in Point Pleasant, Virginia, with the …
Booty Quest – Out Now For iOS And Android
Avast, shipmates. A tot o' rum all round and cease yer keel-hauling of the cabin boy. A shiny new version of Outplay's popular treasure matchin' Facebook title, Booty Quest, has hove into view for them new Apple and Android gadgets and now you can shiver your timbers on the go. OK, enough piratism. Booty Quest was …
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Bad Hotel Good Game
We are, of course, entirely objective here at Scottishgames. We love all of the developers and games companies in Scotland without favouritism or preference. There are a few companies though, who do get us quite excited when we hear they're working on a new game. We were lucky enough to see Bad Hotel in development, during an …