Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Cobra's hugely popular iBomber Defense tower defence (sorry, we're going to stick to the British spelling...) has hit the PlayStation Mobile Store. This makes the top-down WWII defend-em-up available to all PlayStation Mobile compatible devices including the PSP Vita and Experia handsets. Players in US, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, France, Italy, Germany and Spain can go and …
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Codeplay is an enigma. One of Scotland's most successful technology companies, with a truly global reputation, yet they work on such secret projects that most people never know about all the consoles, mobiles and devices it helps shape, optimise and prepare for developers to build the next generation of awesome upon. Now Codeplay is hiring. The …
IT has begun. Dare to be Digital 2013, the games design and development competition for students is now LIVE in the city of Dundee. Fifteen teams from all around the world have come together for the next nine weeks to build a new and original game, before demonstrating it in front of thousands of families, …
UPDATED: We originally stated that the Xbox One could emulate existing Xbox 360 games. 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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Serious Parody's first title, Wrestling Manager, has been quietly building up a serious and dedicated following, since it was released on the Apple App Store in 2012. The game combines serious management sim with a unique 'modding' capability, which allows players to change the look and feel of the game, without jailbreaking their phone. Now, …
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At a glamorous and high profile event in New York City last night, Sony revealed the first details about it's much anticipated console, which it turns out will be called the PS4. The device itself was not shown, but the company highlighted many of the platform's next generation features including: 8 GB of unified memory, …
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The 2012 Dare to be Digital competition came to a climax yesterday, when the winning teams were announced at a star-studded, glamorous and confetti covered awards ceremony. The awards were handed out at the end of the three day ProtoPlay event, which drew in a record crowd of over 10,000. Players, developers, families, students and …
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One of the companies we were massively impressed by at the recent Engage-Invest-Exploit event in Edinburgh was Speech Graphics. Their technology, which synchronises lip movement with recorded speech is simply the best we've seen. To the extent that all of the Xbox 360 and PS3 games we played over the following weeks looked almost embarrassing …
Like the cat flap, onions and gravity, the greatest inventions are simple and obvious once you see them. 'Why?' you wonder, 'didn't I think of that first?' Chances are you were tagging chums on Facebook, or queuing for chips. Thankfully however, there are clever, creative people out there who are making these obvious things real …
Cohort Studios' last title, Me Monstar: Hear Me Roar! is now available for the Sony PlayStation3 and PSP. We haven't heard a great deal about this game till now, but some of the early artwork and subtle hints made us quite excited for an original new idea from the Cohort team. It looks like the …
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