All 4 Games, Channel 4's mobile publisher today released Super Arc Light, the first title from new Scottish studio No Code. The game is a stylish radial arcade shooter, which means players must spin around a central axis and blast incoming enemies into tiny shards of glowing particles. This is, of course, not nearly as …
Outplay’s Mystery Match Comes To Kelvingrove
Outplay's globe-trotting match 3 puzzle game, Mystery Match, has arrived in Glasgow with players now invited to take part in the spectacular setting of the Kelvingrove Museum and Gallery. This is the first time Mystery Match update has visited a real world venue. It showcases Kelvingrove in front of a global audience, potentially increasing visitors …
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OUT NOW – Block Racer – New From AppyAppster
Block Racer is a brand new defiantly lo-fi and retro racing game for iOS. Created by the new AppyAppster team, Block Racer takes one button racing to a new level. Starting at the top of the screen, players have to negotiate increasingly challenging single screen tracks, in which spikes, pitfalls, guns, drips and other hazards …
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OUT NOW – Let’s Go Rocket
Cobra Mobile is perhaps best known for the studio's popular iBomber series, which encompasses two top down destruct-em-up bombing games (iBomber 1 & 2), a twin-stick blast-em-up (Attack) and a couple of truly excellent tower defence (em-up) games (Defense & Defense Pacific). For its latest release Cobra has abandoned the war-torn battlefields of WWII and …
Xpo North – Developers Wanted
The newly christened Xpo North (formerly Go North, the UK's finest creative industries festival) is taking place in Inverness next month (June 10th & 11th to be precise). In the last couple of years, the Xpo has been increasing the presence of games and games companies. 2014 saw over a dozen companies taking part in …
Angry Birds Stella Hits 30M Downloads
Rovio, the publisher of the world's favourite bird-tossing, pig-killing, infrastructure destroying mobile game has announced that Stella, the latest part of the ongoing Angry Birds franchise has been downloaded over 30,000,000 times. The latest title, Angry Birds Stella: Pop, which was created by Scotland's Outplay has already reached more than 5,000,000 downloads - and is proving …
Channel 4 Opens Glasgow-Based Publisher
After several years of quietly publishing games based upon its own properties, as well as a number of up-and-coming indie games, Channel 4 has announced the creation of a dedicated mobile games publisher. All 4 Games will be based at the company's Glasgow headquarters. The publisher will be releasing of Channel 4 funded games, along …
OUT NOW – ZenTorii
The wonders of nature, the nature of existence, the existence of nature. All of these things and more - or less - are the focus of a new interactive experience released by RamenSoft, a team of second year students from Abertay University. Zentorii was created in conjunction with industry veteran, official SGN chum and occasional …
Outplay’s Bite Size App For Swingers
Bite Size Games, the new new label for weeny games from Dundee's Outplay is continuing to pioneer and explore the stranger sides of mobile gaming content. For example, the label's first release, Pug Rapids, introduced players to a bizarre combination of water sports and dogging. Now with its second game, Bite Size aims to get …
OUT NOW – Sky Patrol For iOS
Beartrap Games' arcade action aircraft shoot-em-up Sky Patrol has hit the Apple App store, bringing a new twist to the classic vertical scrolling blaster. Featuring more weapons than an American airbase, more boss battles than life in a particularly fractious corporation and more levels than a really weird Christopher Nolan film, Sky Patrol brings good …