The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That's about …
Chunk Snowball – Out Now For iPhone And iPod
Chucking snowballs used to be considered good, healthy fun. Wrap the kids up warm, kick them outside and as long as nothing serious got broken, it was a big win all round. Now, however, you get Daily Mail complaining, Police handing out ASBOs like they're crackers and children as young as two being banged-up for …
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Artist In Residence – Mr Hogarth (Redux)
The jolliest little elf in Santa's workshop has come through for your favourite Scottish gaming resource once more. Stewart 'Stu' Hogarth is back once again - like a renegade dancer (not the reindeer) and is once more keeping it defiantly old school. Look upon the C64-inspired banner loveliness and send your Christmas wishes Stewart's way, …
Tag’s Doctor Who: The Mazes Of Time Now Live On Apple App Store
Doctor Who's first mobile gaming adventure - the Mazes Of Time - created by Tag Games, is now available for iPhone and iPad in the Apple App Store. In his very first mobile game outing the Doctor and his sidekick Amy Pond must rescue a family abducted from deep space by the Daleks. As you’d …
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Professor Frag Is IN!
Play2Improve, the company behind FPS Trainer, the new online service which teaches gamers to compete more effectively in online FPS games, is holding it's public world premiere on MONDAY 20th December, at HMV's Gamerbase on Princes Street in Edinburgh... FPS Trainer, the brand new online service which combines sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based coaching technology with …
YoYo Games Releases Teka Teki
Teka Teki, the latest release from YoYo Games promises a Tetris-style puzzle game in which players have to place food tiles in groups so that the adjacent animal tiles can scoff them in as large a group as possible. The larger the groups, the bigger the combos. If you're not convinced, there's a Lite version, …
Denki Announces Big Cup Cricket, Pronounces It ‘++Awesome’
The folks at Denki have been very quiet over the last few months. Many saw this as proof positive that the company was sub-contracted to Santa, making toys and games for the good boys and girls of the world. Other, less charitable souls, claimed it was because the company was trying to suppress new that …
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Introducing CHUNK Games
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a new member of the Scottish games community. Chunk Games is a new label, created by Glasgow digital design agency Chunk. The company has worked in the marketing, advertising and design field for a number of years now and has produced several 'games' both in the traditional sense and in …
Artist In Residence – Chris Gilchrist
This weeks banner comes courtesy of Chris Gilchrist of Hitreach in Arbroath. Offering a wide range of services, from web design and search engine optimisation, through to graphic design, Hitreach offers most of their services white labeled to other agencies. Harking even further back than last week's homage to the home computer revolution, Chris has …
Edinburgh: ‘Scotland’s One And Only Creative Hotspot’
A study carried out by NESTA with the universities of Bristol and Cardiff has highlighted the creative hotspots around the UK. Scotland has one - the capital. Based upon the number of people working in all creative areas - the arts, architecture, media, publishing and even games development - the hotspots highlight major clusters of …
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