Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The team at Stormcloud Games have been pushing the boat out for their initial title, Mr Shingu's Paper Zoo. They were at Dare ProtoPlay's indie showcase, with branded t-shirts, iPads and boundless enthusiasm. The game was a big hit with kids and families and proved that the combination of paper folding, animal husbandry and tamagotchi …
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Spong is reporting that Take Two has renewed the trademark registrations for Agent, the 1970s spy title, originally announced as a PS3 exclusive back in 2009. As Rockstar North are likely finishing up work on the soon-to-be-released GTA V (due September 17th), could this be a hint regarding their next project? Given the incredibly response …
There are less than ten tickets left for the 2013 Dare+ workshop. It's an intensive one day workshop exploring every aspect of starting and running a game development studio. It's easier now than at any point in history to build and release a game, but achieving long-term, sustainable success is more difficult. Dare+ is running …
The Xbox 360 editition of Minecraft has retained the top spot in the UK all-format Top 40 for the second week in a row, fighting off competition from The Last Of Us (#2) and Animal Crossing: New Leaf (#3). As we pointed out last week, the chart is stuffed with major, multi-title franchises, sequels and …
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Glasgow's Firebrand Games has been fairly quiet of late. The Studio is the developer behind a whole range of driving games for large publishers, including TrackMania on Nintendo DS to Need for Speed: Undercover to Dirt 2 and Need for Speed: The Run on Wii and Nintendo 3DS. However the studio has been working on its …
Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) is a something vital to every creative company - and especially every games company. Developers are either working on someone else's IP, or building their own. For real, long-term success, generating your own IP is crucial. It provides your company with real, long-term value and can - in some cases - …
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Glasgow's Tsumanga Studios announced they were working with the female tween-focused license Winx at the start of 2013. Now the company has released it's first title, Winx Sirenix Power, for both Android and iOS devices. If you're not a 9-13 year old girl, or don't have one in your immediate family, you may not have …
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Zeds is a curious new game from the team at Chunk in Glasgow. Created in conjunction with Channel 4 Education, the game has been designed to teach teenagers about sleep in a fun, entertaining and unique way. Teenagers are often unaware that disturbed sleep patterns and a rough nights sleep, thanks to studying, exams, or …
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The University of Abertay in Dundee today launched The Code Bar, a new service which allows game prototypes created by students to be purchased by developers and publishers who wish to complete them and take them to market. The goal of the project is to unlock valuable intellectual property created by students at Abertay University and …
WeeWorld is reviving it's Glasgow Mobile Breakfast meetups after a brief hiatus, opening it's conference room doors to a roundtable of developers and mobile businesses for discussion and debate on the stuff that matters to them. Past attendees, who have come from as far as Edinburgh and Dundee, will be familiar with the no holds …
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