Kodu Kup is a coding competition open to UK school children aged between 7 and 14 years old. Kodu Kup Scotland is a sister competition to the UK Kodu Kup designed to work with the larger competition, taking Scotland's different term times into account. The competition has been organised and run by David Renton, a Microsoft …
Microsoft Recruiting Gaming Ambassadors
Games students - Microsoft needs you. The company is recruiting 20 windows games ambassadors at universities across the UK. The role involves setting up partnerships between local developers and student bodies, organising events and supporting gaming competitions. Microsoft is promising that the job won't take more than 12 hours per month and that special consideration will …
OUT NOW – The Quest (Redux)
The team at Guerilla Tea are clearly not people to lounge around, resting on their laurels, sipping rum-based cocktails. Mere weeks after the company launched the Cancer busting game, Genes In Space: Play To Cure, it is launching a redeveloped version of their first (BAFTA nominated) game, The Quest. It's rather lovely. The goal is to …
Lub Vs Dub Wins BAFTA New Talent Award
The BAFTA New Talent awards is an annual competition for people who have just begun their careers in the screen industries, or who have released their first work. The competition is open to students, graduates and newcomers of all shapes and sizes. This year's competition saw three very different games entered for the competition, one …
Introducing – M0B1US
Mental Universe has announced it is working on a brand new title, which is being designed, developed and released in only three weeks. M0B1US (pronounced “mobius”) is an arcade endless runner, but with a twist. Instead of running in a single direction, in M0B1US you run along the bottom of your screen... before running up the side, along …
OUT NOW – Monster Legacy
Outplay's latest release is the terrifyingly titled Monster Legacy. It's a brand new title for iOS devices, in which players must explore secret dungeons, solve puzzles, capture a menagerie of monsters (the game promises over 100) and the use them to battle opponents. Monster Legacy has been covered and featured by a number of leading mobile …
UNITY Porting Day – Glasgow – 29th March
Microsoft, Nokia and Unity are hosting a series of Porting Days across the UK, with one taking place in Glasgow on Saturday 29th of March at the Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design Studio, at The Hub, Pacific Quay. Attendees will receive a token for free registration to the Microsoft App Store. According to Microsoft: …
Moray Game Jam: The Winners
That's it. It's over. The first ever Moray Game Jam which is, as we may have pointed out, the most northerly game jam yet to take place in the UK, is all over. They came, they coded, they had pizza. Nine games were created. It was, by general acclaim, awesome. The theme of Ied The …
Moray Game Jam: Sunday Morning
Two hours to go. Thus far there have been no meltdowns, no collapses, no screaming hysteria. In fact the whole of the first ever Moray Game Jam has been marked by remarkable levels of good humour, cooperation and calm. The teams are still working. The projects are, for the most part, looking good. Playable demos …
Gamers Complete Six Months Of Cancer Research In One Month
Players of Guerilla Tea's Play to Cure: Genes In Space have completed six months worth of research in the month since the game was released. The amount of actual data is quite astonishing. According to Cancer Research UK: If this amount of DNA – tightly-coiled strings of genetic information – was unravelled it would stretch …
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