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 …

TIGA Hosting Game Development Night In Dundee

Kicking off a year which promises to be a joy for networking, or a horrifying ordeal for agoraphobics, the meek and the more introverted developer, TIGA has announced its first developer event of the year will be held on Wednesday 23rd of January at Dukes Corner in Dundee. TIGA is promising a Stella line up …

Video Games & Learning Symposium – Glasgow, February 2012

The University of Glasgow's Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Instititute (HATII) has organised a half day symposium exploring the area of game-based learning and the use of off-the-shelf consumer games technology within an educational context. The symposium will feature three noted and high profile speakers who can provide insight into the rapidly evolving new area …

New Company New Game – Binary Pumpkin Introduces Pumpkin Bingo

Please welcome a new development studio to your friendly, futuristic Scottish Games Network.  Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Binary Pumpkin. Alongside the appropriately awesome name, the company was founded by two veterans of the games business.  Lol Scragg and Bruce McNeish were two of the founders of Cohort Studios and have worked on a …

Bips! – If PAC-MAN Ate Snake…

Bips! is a brand new game from Ludometrics, out now for Facebook.  So far so vanilla you might be thinking, but hold those there horses, cowboys n' girls.  This is no regular release.  Bips! has a long and noble history, with a pedigree as long as Metal Gear Solid cut scene (one of our New …