Tealy & Orangey – dual control puzzle fun – PLAY IT

Tealy & Orangey is a brand new online game from MainlyAboutGames.co.uk, aka Freakyzoid, aka Mr Anthony Gowland. Written in about seven days, as a bit of an exercise to practice Flash and Flixel, Tealy and …

Architecture & Design In Scotland Seeks Game Designers/Developers

Scottish Architecture & Design is looking for game designers/developers who can help them to create online games for the organisation’s website.  The designer can be an individual or part of a larger organisation.  The only …

Games Consortium – Developer Driven Publisher

The meeting which took place at the DCA in Dundee on Friday, drew in representatives from many of Scotland’s game studios. Organised by NESTA, the meeting outlined the concept for the creation of a new …

Ruffian Recruiting – Reveals(?) Two New Projects

Exciting!  High Action!  Visceral!  Online! According to Ruffian’s latest blog post, the company is already hard at work, with the follow up to Crackdown 2, the company’s first release, which was released back in July …

Hunted Cow Profiled In Aberdeen Press & Journal

You might not have come across Hunted Cow before now.  The studio is based up in the frozen north of Elgin and works mainly upon browser-based MMO games, including Fallen Sword, SigmaStorm II and Gothador. …

APB Reloaded – Closed Beta Signup Now Open

As the headline makes entirely clear, the closed beta period for APB: Reloaded is now open for players to sign up.  Submit an e-mail to Gamer’s First and sign up for a player account and …

Games Consortium Meeting – Dundee, Friday 14th January

A quick reminder to game developers out there that this Friday (14th January 2011), NESTA is holding an open meeting to discuss plans to create a consortium to ‘take products direct to market’.  Or to …

Triple B’s Zombies 8 My Cookiez – Out Now On Xbox Live Arcade

Zombies are, to be fair, a perfect subject for videogames.  They’re slow moving, pitiless and you can machine gun, burn, explode, chop or otherwise mutilate them without mercy, since they’re already undead. However, some zombie …

Scottish Games Jam – Coming Soon

2011 promises to be quite the creative wonderland for game designers and developers.  Anything which encourages new talent, new games and more innovation gets our whole-hearted support. The first development-related event of 2011 is rapidly …

2010 – A Year In Gaming

UPDATED – Now includes Firebrand and Triple B Games… “Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the rest of the play?” Any review of the games and gaming sector in Scotland in 2010 is going …