If the above headline doesn't mean a great deal to you, you may not be alone. It is good news however. It means that Scotland's YoYo Games is continuing to support future technologies and that the company's popular GameMaker platform (which, the company tells us, has now been downloaded over 5,000,000 times) could be at …
Intellectual Property: Use It Or Lose It, Buster…
Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) is a something vital to every creative company - and especially every games company. Developers are either working on someone else's IP, or building their own. For real, long-term success, generating your own IP is crucial. It provides your company with real, long-term value and can - in some cases - …
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Workshop: Exhibition Skills
Scottish Enterprise and Interactive Tayside are running a workshop for digital media companies, aimed at helping businesses be more effective at corporate exhibiting. The event takes place at Discovery Point, Dundee on May 30th, 2013. Here's the official description: At exhibitions and events, you have one chance to stop the customer as they walk past …
Wanted: Games Journalists
Ready-Up is something a little different from the usual consumer games website. It does reviews, it does features. You can, should you wish, find out everything about that new console title you've had your eye on. Ready-Up however goes further. It's about community, it's about interaction with readers and it's about allowing their writers to …
Let The Right One In: New Audio Game From National Theatre Scotland And Quartic Llama
Other is an entirely new type of game, created by one of Dundee's most exciting new game developers. It exemplifies the fact that interactive media is changing every aspect of the creative industries, in new and unexpected ways. It's also an important project because it brings together a number of partners, including many that games …
BAFTA Wants You
If you thought BAFTA was just about film and television, think again. The academy has built up a huge range of games events, activities and expertise over the last several years. The annual games awards have been a major part of the UK's games scene for many years now and BAFTA created an entirely new …
Accredited Graduate Internships From Dundee University
The use of interns is a subject which has raised a great deal of controversy across several industries in the last few years. Unpaid internships have attracted criticism from student groups, industry bodies and even government. This has led many companies to become wary of interns, if not avoid them outright. Which can be a …
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Light Hero Reduces Price, Adds $100,000 Incentive To Complete The Game
Light Hero, the deep space shoot-em-up, created by Edinburgh's Inceptional, is having an exciting week. The game's price point has just dropped - you can now pick the game up for £0.69 (0.99 US$ | 0.99 CAD | 0.79 € | 85 ¥ | 0.99 AU$)But that's not all. In a move bold enough for …
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Celtic Heroes: Dragonfire – Out Now For iOS
Celtic Heroes, the MMMORPG created by One Thumb Mobile has evolved. The world's first large-scale Mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game has been updated, with a major new content pack which more than doubles the size of the game. Celtic Heroes: Dragonfire introduces three entirely new playable areas, twice as many enemies, hundreds of …
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Winx Sirenix Power – Out Now For iOS And Android
Glasgow's Tsumanga Studios announced they were working with the female tween-focused license Winx at the start of 2013. Now the company has released it's first title, Winx Sirenix Power, for both Android and iOS devices. If you're not a 9-13 year old girl, or don't have one in your immediate family, you may not have …
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