Solar Flux, the original new sun-saving, gravity-defying, inertia-dampening, ufo-controlling game from Glasgow's Firebrand Games is now LIVE on the Apple App store. We saw the world-exclusive hands-on preview at last weeks Dare to be Digital Indie Games Showcase and it is eye-wateringly beautiful. Every level is centred around a huge, dying sun. The player has …
Ancient Battle: Rome – Coming Soon From Hunted Cow
From a mysterious and relatively unknown company somewhere in the wilds of Northern Scotland, Hunted Cow has emerged as one of the most active and rapidly growing games companies in the UK. Last week the company announced it had signed a deal with Criss Cross Games to bring the studios' first game to market. …
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iBomber Defense Hits PlayStation Mobile Store
Cobra's hugely popular iBomber Defense tower defence (sorry, we're going to stick to the British spelling...) has hit the PlayStation Mobile Store. This makes the top-down WWII defend-em-up available to all PlayStation Mobile compatible devices including the PSP Vita and Experia handsets. Players in US, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, France, Italy, Germany and Spain can go and …
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Outplay’s Monster Legacy Chosen As Launch Title For Facebook Mobile Publishing
Facebook is moving into mobile publishing and Outplay, the Dundee-based, venture-backed, social-fun company is launch partner. Following the end of the exclusive agreement with social games giant, Zynga, Facebook has launched a programme to distribute and promote mobile games for selected small/medium developers. The company will help developers find a global audience for their new …
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Lub Vs Dub – Scottish Game Jam Winner Hits The App Store
Lub Vs Dub is a brand new game, for iPhone and iPad, which was born in the blistering forge of the 2013 Global Game Jam. The game picked up the Best Tech and Best Game awards at the event - and went on to be showcased at a number of independent game events, including the …
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Solar Flux – New From Firebrand Games
Glasgow's Firebrand Games has been fairly quiet of late. The Studio is the developer behind a whole range of driving games for large publishers, including TrackMania on Nintendo DS to Need for Speed: Undercover to Dirt 2 and Need for Speed: The Run on Wii and Nintendo 3DS. However the studio has been working on its …
I Am Level
Game designer, developer and official Scottish Games Network chum, Stew Hogarth has just released the first details of his latest title, I Am Level. If you like your games - and graphics - old school, as in late 80s home computer era, then I Am Level promises to be something special. Stew's just uploaded it …
Lucky Frame Issue Gentlemen With Relish
Lucky Frame is a creative design studio based in Edinburgh. They're not a game developer - though their last few releases have been game-like. They're the recipients of critical acclaim for their last few titles and have a shiny BAFTA award for Bad Hotel, released in 2012. The company has worked on a variety of …
Reclusive Scottish Games Tycoon Speaks – New Game, New Company
If there's one defining characteristic of game developers in Scotland, it would be taciturnity. A habitual unwillingness to gleefully engage in conversation about one's latest game, or a suspicion that showing more than bare tolerance for the aforementioned title is, somehow... well, vulgar. The sort of activity that one might expect of frauds, charlatans or …
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Hunted Cow Signs Publishing Agreement With Criss Cross
Hunted Cow, the highlands-based developer and publisher behind games including Tank Battle: North Africa, Battle Dungeon: Risen and Fallen Sword, has signed a deal with Dundee's Criss Cross Games, to bring the studio's first title, Crystal Reign, to market on a number of platforms, beginning with iOS and Android tablets. Details on the game are …
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