This morning's Call Kaye programme on Radio Scotland, covered the topic of games addicition, following Monday's controversial Panorama report looking at the same issue. The Panorama piece has been already picked apart by much of the games media. The conclusion is generally that it was poorly researched, anecdotal and featured advice to 'addicted' gamers to …
Google Launches App Store For Chrome
With a growing number of game developers now focusing on the new App markets, today's announcement for Google could represent a new way to enter the online and browser-based market for many of Scotland's mobile and smartphone studios. Google's Chrome browser has quietly been getting on with impressing people over the last several months. It's …
Digital Goldfish Releases Bloons TD 4
Digital Goldfish has released the latest title in the popular Bloons series - Bloons TD 4 (the TD stands for 'Tower Defence'). If you're not familiar with Bloons, it's a whole family of games in which a charismatic monkey hurls darts at balloons, with the goal of bursting them all. The Tower Defence games build …
Proper Games’ Final Fight: Double Impact Nominated In IGN’s Best Of 2010
Final Fight: Double Impact has been nominated in the 'Best Co-Op Game' category in IGN's Best of 2010 roundup. Developed by Proper Games in Dundee, Final Fight was released earlier this year for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network
Artist In Residence – Stewart Hogarth
This week's defiantly retro banner comes from the games industry's very own indie king, Stewart Hogarth. Formerly of Denki, Stewart now works with the decidedly cool Chunk in Glasgow, where his design skills are clearly flourishing. We're delighted with the new look and would like to thank Stewart for his hard work and in-depth knowledge …
Spiffing Games Wants You To Get Infected
Dundee-based indie games developer Spiffing Games has released its latest title, Infected, which is now free to play online. Infected is an unashamed homage to classic board games like Go or Othello, in which the player has to place pieces on a grid to occupy as much space as possible and turn the opposing player's …
Knock Knock. Who’s There? Doctor…
Doctor Who? Yes, Tag's latest TV tie-in, Doctor Who: The Mazes Of Time, was shown off for the first time earlier this week, with two initial screenshots (one of which is above) released by BBC Worldwide. The game is due for release is early December, but there's no word yet on the precise date or …
Space Police on Super Highway 9 – New Xbox Indie Game From Haiku Interactive
Edinburgh's Haiku Interactive has released its latest title on the Xbox Indie channel. Space Police on Super Highway 9, is a top-down, vertically scrolling racing game, in which the player has to patrol the infinite road network of galactic highway 9, tracking down law breakers, ne'er do wells and perps, then ramming them off the …
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Scottish Government Seeks Game Developer For Commonwealth Games Design Competition
The Scottish Government has launched a game design competition which will tie a student designer and a development studio together, to create a game for the 2014 Commonwealth Games website. While details of the student design side remain uncertain, it looks like students from universities around Scotland will be asked to submit concepts for a …
3MRT Launches New iPhone Apps
Edinburgh-based 3MRT is a company working in the 'educational' or 'serious' gaming sector, using games technology and techniques to create 'accelerated learning software designed to improve the retention of information and exam performance of its users.' 3MRT's flagship InQuizitor range is now available for the iPhone and iPod through the Apple App Store. Published by …