Glasgow Film Festival – Games & Comics Merge – Meet Nerdvana

The Glasgow Film Festival has a long history of incorporating and giving space to videogames over the last few years. From panels exploring the influence of comics, to an afternoon of choose-your-own-documentary goodness, the festival …

Digital Innovation Award For Quartic Llama And NTS

The 2014 Arts & Business Scotland awards took place on Friday 24th of October at a glittering ceremony at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal. The awards celebrate the best partnerships between the business and cultural sectors in …

Games Meets Textiles – OUT NOW – Strawberry Thief

Sophia George, the V&A museum’s first ever Game Designer in Residence, has launched her first game, inspired by her work with the V&A – a brand new iPad game inspired by the work of textile designer …

OUT NOW – Incandescence

Tippety tappety went the programmer, staring at the screen. The tealy-orangey wash of the monitor lit his face, like a well-considered light source in front of his serious face. If this was a cool Hollywood …

PLAYER!

Player is a brand new radio comedy set in Dundee in the 1980s, following the life of, Casey, an aspiring game developer. It’s been produced by TVandNotTV and was written by retro gaming fan, Raymond Friel. Player hits the …

Fly Through Dundee’s New V&A Museum

Dundee’s Live Visualisations is the creator of a new, interactive representation of the city’s forthcoming V&A museum. The fly through of Kengo Kuma’s distinctive and ground breaking design shows the museum’s galleries and spaces. Live …

Petition: Bring the GTA Soundtrack To iTunes

The Internet. Haven of democracy. Tool of freedom. The single greatest information tool in the history of humanity. A series of pipes. It’s a great thing. It allows us to communicate more openly. It enables …

Creative Scotland Hiring Digital, Innovation, Creative Technology & Design Officer

Creative Scotland is recruiting. The organisation responsible for Scotland’s cultural, artistic and creative industries is looking for a development officer, focusing on digital innovation, creative technology and design. It’s a full-time position, with a salary (£25,000 …

Richard LeMarchand Leads ProtoPlay Line Up

Richard Lemarchand, Lead Game Designer on all three Uncharted games, will lead the line-up at Dare ProtoPlay, Scotland’s biggest video games festival. Dare ProtoPlay, which is organised and run by Abertay University, champions the very …

Steve Hammond’s Manual Override – Legends

Legends, folklore and myths of the computer games industry is a particularly hard topic to research on the Internet. Those very terms of myth and legend are used differently nowadays. Clickbait headlines use ‘myth’ when …