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 …
Now Hiring – Frenetic Studios
Frenetic Studio is a design and development company based in the heart of Glasgow. The company is now looking for a Backend Developer to create a companion website for their latest iOS game as well as a junior developer and artist/animator for the same project. Details can be found on the Scottish Games Network JOBS …
Trap Mansion – New From Too Easy Games
Jinkys! We have a new company AND a new game to introduce today. Too Easy Games is a new indie games studio based in Dundee and formed by four Abertay graduates. The company has already released its first title, a halloween-themed puzzler called Trap Mansion, in which players must negotiate the pitfalls (literally) of a …
Games Analytics & Urban Airship Make Games Provably Better
Urban Airship, the US company which provides mobile push messaging services, and Scotland's predictive analytics specialist GamesAnalytics, have announced a strategic partnership that should help games developers reach out and contact their users in new ways. The specialism and skills in this partnership should allow greater engagement with games and allow developers/publishers to identify and …
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Tag Games Working On Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes
Breaking news from Ubisoft reveals that Tag Games, still working furiously on their 6th birthday game jam, are also working on the mobile version of the RPG puzzle title Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes. The game is coming out for iOS and Android. The game is a port from the original DS title, created …
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The UK’s Favourite Designer
OK, it's a subjective question. Who is the best designer in the UK? Now the team at Zappar have helped answer that question with their new project. Hot on the heels of working with supermodel Solenn Heussaff and some ice cream; a couple of the world's biggest wrestling stars, classic english literature, reinventing greetings cards …
Scottish Climate Change App Competition – £50K Up For Grabs
There's an opportunity for the creative geniuses (genies?) of Scotland's interactive sector, to get their mitts on £50,000 in prize money, thanks to a new competition created by the Edinburgh Centre For Carbon Innovation and supported by the Scottish Government, Scottish & Southern Energy, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Microsoft and Scotland's 2020 Climate Group. The …
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Tag Games Included In Top 50 Mobile Companies (again…)
Dundee's Tag Games has been selected as one of Mobile Entertainment magazine's Top 50 UK Mobile Innovators, the only Scottish games developer in the list. It's a fairly respectable list too. According to the magazine... ME's Top 50 Mobile Innovators project, sponsored by O2 BlueVia, was a quest to identify the firms doing amazing things …
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Google Launches App Store For Chrome
With a growing number of game developers now focusing on the new App markets, today's announcement for Google could represent a new way to enter the online and browser-based market for many of Scotland's mobile and smartphone studios. Google's Chrome browser has quietly been getting on with impressing people over the last several months. It's …
Knock Knock. Who’s There? Doctor…
Doctor Who? Yes, Tag's latest TV tie-in, Doctor Who: The Mazes Of Time, was shown off for the first time earlier this week, with two initial screenshots (one of which is above) released by BBC Worldwide. The game is due for release is early December, but there's no word yet on the precise date or …