Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
According to new research, the mobile app markets are dominated by games. Midia research, created a new report looking at the global app markets, discovered that out of the top 700 grossing apps, 84.9% are games. Social networking came next with a paltry 4.1%, then dating with 3.9% and navigation and travel accounting for only 2.3%. …
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Hunted Cow, Scotland's secret games publisher and one of the country's biggest success stories, announced that it has signed a deal with American board game creators Victory Point Games. Victory Point Games is an award-winning games company, based in California. Victory Point started life as a historical war games company, but has expanded hugely to …
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Claymore Games has been quiet of late, but the company has not been idle. Their current project is a collection of classic mini-games with a defiantly retro twist. The company announced Neo Arcade towards the end of 2013, but has just released a sneak peek of a bold and shiny new look, which moves away from the …
The interactive adventurers at Pixel Blimp in Dundee are celebrating the launch of their latest title, Free The Network. It's an endless runner, which combines the ball-bearing-based blitzkrieg of Impossible Road, with the high-speed pixel perfect precision of Super Hexagon. Players must guide their mystical orb of righteous wonder through a flat-coloured landscape populated solely …
In addition to organising secret events, Develop magazine is also putting together a list of forthcoming titles for a directory of new games from the UK. It's an awesome idea and one long overdue... The initial list can be found here. It contains 156 games, which seems... a little light. Less than a dozen are …
Another week, another post about Minecraft achieving mind-blowing success and creating ongoing joy. Following the awards, the number one slots, mapping the whole of Denmark (really) and the sales, oh so many sales, comes news that Minecraft, continues to confound the critics with... even more sales and success. The big news this time round is …
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Do you have a game on (or coming to) the Windows Store, or Windows Phone Store? Did you build it in Unity? Then you could be eligible to enter the UNITY game developer Windows competition. There are prizes of $50,000, $30,000 and $10,000 on offer, with games being judged on quality (50%), originality and creativity (30%) …
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It's your soaraway summer Steam sale! You're spending money on games you'll never play and loving every second of it. So why not support one of your local studios and pick up Firebrand's Solar Flux for fewer bucks than normal... It's gorgeous. You collect plasma and fire it into the heart of a dying sun …
Let's make this very clear, Roguelike games are brilliant. Dungeon crawlers with nasty monsters, chests of sparkling treasure, magic spells, multiple levels of peril and unexpected frequent death are some of the finest experiences which video games has to offer. We think.Though we are experts, so that's pretty much a professional opinion. Roguelikes have been …
Like the wider industry, game jams are evolving. A number of jams, hacks and codeathons in the last few years have moved beyond the idea of merely creating content in a ridiculously short space of time and have instead focused on using data in new ways, or crowd-sourcing news ideas to help solve specific issues. The …