2014 – A Year In Releases

2014 was a strange year for the Scottish games industry. The number of companies in the country shrank slightly (to around 85) and the number of games released also decreased to around the same number …

OUT NOW – Bloons Monkey City

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It’s a philosophical imponderable of no small magnitude, which has kept the finest minds of the …

OUT NOW – Dueling Wizards

Dueling Wizards is the latest release from Scotland’s Cog Mobile. Based in Fife, the company develops apps and games for commercial partners. Dueling Wizards however is an original new title, which puts the player into …

OUT NOW – Quick Slide

Dundee’s Stand Out Games has released its latest title, Quickslide for Android devices. The game offers a new spin on the classic Christmas-cracker-em-up slidey squares type puzzle. You know the ones. It’s a plastic square …

OUT NOW – Mystery Match

The team at Outplay has released its latest title, Mystery Match. It’s, surprisingly enough, a match three game, in which players must make chains of three or more jewels, to remove them from the playing …

OUT NOW – Smash Doors

Opportunity. That’s what comes a knocking at your door. You can seize fortune by the forelock or look a gift horse in the mouth, but not if it comes bearing gifts. How often have you …

OUT NOW – Seek – New From Five Pixels

Five Pixels is one of the winning teams from this year’s Dare To Be Digital. Seek is their first game. It was released in early November and has already scooped a TIGA award for the …

OUT NOW – High Steaks! New From Future Fossil

Scientists. From the amiable if eccentric lab-coated boffins of British fame, to the megalomaniacal  ‘Fools! I’ll show them. I’ll show ALL of them! Mwah ha ha…!’ Frankenstein-esque human centipede creators, they love meddling in things …

App Tax Event – November 26th

As you are no doubt ALL aware, the law concerning VAT on the sale of digital goods changes in 2015. The change applies to apps, games, music and e-books. If you sell directly, or supply …

OUT NOW – SAS Zombie Assault 4

Zombies. They’re everywhere. Rising from the dead, lurching around corners, falling to pieces (yet inexplicably failing to be eaten by starving dogs, packs of wolves or the more ubiquitous bacteria…) And of course, they’re always, …