From yesterday's Venturebeat: Apple's App Store has hit the 1,000,000 apps mark, according to social app discovery company Appsfire, with more than 30,000 Apps being submitted to Apple each and every month. The App store launched in July 2008. In October 2012, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that over 35 BILLION apps had been downloaded …
Bloons TD 5 – Out Now For iOS
The studio formerly known as Digital Goldfish - and which is now known as Ninja Kiwi (Scotland) - has released the latest title in the monkey-based pop 'em up, Bloons series. Bloons TD 5 is a 'tower defence' game. Players must defend themselves against wave after wave of maurauding, every-so-angry balloons, which are determined to …
Swallowtail Games – New Development Studio From BAFTA Winning Students
Swallowtail Games, started life as a team in the Dare to Be Digital competition. Now the team has secured funding from the Prototype fund, overseen by the University of Abertay and has set up shop as a new studio, based in Dundee. The team's original Dare project, Tick Tock Toys, will be the new company's …
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Yeti Sighting In Scotland
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of years of anecdotal sightings, reports and intriguingly blurry photos, there has been no definitive proof of the existence of mysterious cryptids such as the yeti, sasquatch or skunk ape. Reports of flying bipedal hominids are even rarer. One thinks of John Keel's experiences in Point Pleasant, Virginia, with the …
Now Hiring – Frenetic Studios
Frenetic Studio is a design and development company based in the heart of Glasgow. The company is now looking for a Backend Developer to create a companion website for their latest iOS game as well as a junior developer and artist/animator for the same project. Details can be found on the Scottish Games Network JOBS …
Hunted Cow Announces Battle Dungeon
Battle Dungeon is a brand new multiplayer, turn-based strategy game, from the team at Hunted Cow. Battle Dungeon offers a level of depth and complexity normally associated with PC-based strategy games, but optimised and designed for the latest generation of iOS devices - iPads, iPhones and iPods. The game allows players to put together a …
Word Crasher Blitz PLUS – Minus Adverts
Word Crasher, the game which manages to combine Scrabble, Tetris and dropping Mentos with all letters on, into Coke, has been revised, updated and polished to a mirror sheen by Edinburgh-based indie powerhouse and one man dynamo of Wonder, Pixels On Toast (aka Kevin Ng). Word Crasher now reflects the beauty and integrity of Kevin's …
iBomber Attack – New From Cobra
Cobra's iBomber franchise is has achieved many glorious - and bloody - victories in recent years. From the original iBomber, to the tower defence blitzkrieg of the iBomber Defense titles, the series has gone from strength to strength, impressing players with their simple, intuitive controls and the sheer amount of stuff you get to blow …
Ninja Kiwi Acquires Scottish Development Studio Digital Goldfish
New Zealand developer/publisher Ninja Kiwi, the company behind the hugely popular Bloons franchise, has acquired Dundee's Digital Goldfish. Digital Goldfish has worked with Ninja Kiwi for the last several years, creating the mobile versions of Bloons and Bloons Tower Defense, as well as their own original intellectual property. The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, was …
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Trap Mansion – New From Too Easy Games
Jinkys! We have a new company AND a new game to introduce today. Too Easy Games is a new indie games studio based in Dundee and formed by four Abertay graduates. The company has already released its first title, a halloween-themed puzzler called Trap Mansion, in which players must negotiate the pitfalls (literally) of a …