Tsumanga Wins EDGE Funding

Tsumanga Studios, the company behind the recently released Winx Sirenix Power and the forthcoming online title, based upon the same franchise, has been awarded EDGE funding, totalling £48,500. Tsumanga was one of eighteen companies to …

Xbox One – What It Is, What It Does – We Think

UPDATED: We originally stated that the Xbox One could emulate existing Xbox 360 games.  It’s now clear Xbox One will not offer emulation of Xbox 360, Xbox Live or Xbox indie games. Our non-games readers might …

Intellectual Property: Use It Or Lose It, Buster…

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 …

Develop Award Nominees Announced

The nominees for the 2013 Develop awards have been announced, with a smattering of Scottish companies appearing in the list of 20 categories… Best use of narrative – The 39 Steps (Story Mechanics) Technical innovation …

Develop’s Top 100 British Studios

Develop Magazine is putting together its list of the UK’s 100 top developers, to be released in June, in association with the fine folks at UKIE.  In past years, studios were judged solely on revenue …

UKTI Multi-Platform App Mission To Silicon Valley

UK Trade and Industry (UKTI) is looking for up to 25 leading app developers from across the United Kingdom to join them on a trade mission to silicon valley, to learn from America’s leading brands, …

IDEAScotland: New Innovation Centre Opens In Dundee

IDEAScotland (Innovation and Digital Enterprise Alliance Scotland) is a new innovation centre located in Dundee’s University of Abertay.  The centre will support start-ups in the digital, technology and creative sectors. IDEAScotland has been created by Scottish …

The Future Of Games In Scotland – Live on TV

Scotland Tonight, STV’s flagship news programme featured a brief discussion on the future of Scotland’s games industry last night. Featuring Interactive Scotland’s Alisdair Gunn, industry commentator, writer, comedian and gamer, Robert Florence and your editor …

Going Global: Learn About Localising

It’s a big wide world out there, kids.  Many countries now enjoy videogames and a number of markets, have huge – and we’re talking enormous – audiences.  Yet many game developers don’t support these markets …

Scotland’s Games Industry – Bigger Than You Think

Updated: Now includes Pixel Blimp In our bid to be the only definitive source of information regarding the games industry in Scotland, we’ve just updated the Company Directory with several new companies and teams.  Please …