Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
A couple of weeks ago we attended the Crossover Labs Inspiration Day in central Edinburgh. If you read the review, you'll know we rather enjoyed it. You can read another review here. It brought together speakers, creators and experts from the film, digital and interactive worlds, for a day which was actually inspirational, exciting and …
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Scotland's Robot Overlord Games is one of only nine teams worldwide to be accepted into the Chartboost University programme, being held in San Francisco in March 2014. The programme is an intensive one week training regime created specifically for companies working in the video games industry. It includes lectures, mentoring and visits to local companies. …
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the brand new GamesIndustry Innovation Awards. Created by Gamer Network (the company behind GamesIndustry.biz and GameHorizon), the new awards have been created to highlight and celebrate the individuals and companies that are shaping the future of the games business. The awards will be nominated and voted for by the industry …
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The all new and officially ground-breaking Freelance Directory on your friendly neighbourhood Scottish Games Network is now live... Covering every aspect of work in the games and interactive sectors, the directory is the first of its kind. It provides freelancers with a way to reach a community of several hundred development studios, tech companies and …
Physicists, astronauts, quantum tunnelers, renegade cosmologists and evil galactic overlords, rejoice! Squares Of Black Space: Alpha Square, the new release from Pixel Sword, is out now. Now you can do battle with the very fabric of spacetime itself, hold back the darkness and ensure the universe, the multiverse, indeed, the WSOGMM continues to exist. The …
Games can change the world... In July 2013, the team at Guerilla Tea announced that they were working with Cancer Research UK on a new game which would use real world clinical research data. Players would manipulate this data as part of the game, creating a huge virtual team, speeding up research and potentially providing …
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