Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet is a brand new release from Edinburgh's Blazing Griffin. It is a real-time, space-strategy game for PC, featuring fleet-based combat, a dynamically generated galaxy, and an evolving narrative that creates a different experience every time the game is played. The company is positioning the game as a rogue-like meets strategy experience. …
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The Hunted Cow team has quite a year in 2014. They've released a huge array of games, made deals with two board game manufacturers, increased their presence in the mobile market and generally been one of the most active AND high profile game developers (and publishers) in the country. They're showing no sign of slowing …
It's your soaraway summer Steam sale! You're spending money on games you'll never play and loving every second of it. So why not support one of your local studios and pick up Firebrand's Solar Flux for fewer bucks than normal... It's gorgeous. You collect plasma and fire it into the heart of a dying sun …
Cobra, the Dundee-based games studio behind the best-selling iBomber series, is a developer who is taking advantage of the growing number of devices and routes to market these days. The company has released much of its catalogue of content for multiple devices. Not just mobile, but interactive TV boxes and more recently, Steam. Why wouldn't you choose Steam? …
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Two Scottish game developers now have games up on the Steam Greenlight system - and they need your help. For our non-games industry readers, Steam Greenlight is a new crowd sourcing project on Valve's hugely popular (65 million users worldwide) Steam digital distribution system, which allows gamers to vote for the new games they would …
As is so often the case, author, wit and professional facial topiary caregiver Mark Twain put it admirably: I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. While this may have been appropriate …
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Solar Flux, the new game from Glasgow's Firebrand is a thing of beauty. Â Seriously. Â This is a game which looks GOOD. Â And plays like a dream... Unlike many of the more recent games set in the wide reaches of interstellar space and alien solar systems, Solar Flux makes space look the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring infinity it …
Picture the scene, you've checked in. Â You may be a spy, in town clandestinely to meet a contact, or kill some guy with a poisoned machete. Â You may be a married couple, yearning for the anonymous touch of hotel sheets, hoping like hell your husband/wife don't find out. Â You may even be a weary business …
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APBÂ inspires mixed emotions within the games industry. Â Some people get misty-eyed and reminisce about what might have been. Â Some people get angry about the the fact the game never achieved its full potential. Â To many the game is simply a vague memory, of a title from years back, which wasn't very good. Â The games media …
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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. Â However, not all PC users have been able to play and enjoy the games, since they were not available for …