Creative Edinburgh Seeking New Executive Director

Creative Edinburgh is looking for a new Executive Director to lead the organisation and support the city’s creative community as it emerges from the uncertainty of Covid and responds to the rapid evolution of our …

Play Away Festival 2021: Playful, Fascinating, Fun

Play Away Festival 2021: Playful, Fascinating, Fun – Scotland’s videogames calendar has a new MUST VISIT event.

Queer Me: The Queer Games Library

Queer Me, or The Queer Games Library, is a new digital game library and archive, which will curate video games which offer the opportunity to explore diverse gender and sexuality expressions, or a queer perspective through play.

BBC Documentary Celebrates the Human Stories of Gaming

Gaming and Me: Connections, Identity and Support takes for granted the fact that millions and millions us have very healthy and productive relationships with the games we play, and that games can be an integral and hugely meaningful part of their players’ lives.

The Dark History Of Tetris Filmed In Scotland

The murky, complicated, and morally dubious history of the world’s favourite block-based puzzle game is coming to the big screen, with the announcement of a new Tetris Movie, starring Taron Egerton, which is being shot in Scotland.

Call for Three-Year Government Funding Agreements for Scotland’s Culture Sector

Culture Counts, the organisation which is the collective voice of Scotland’s cultural and heritage sectors, has written to Fiona Hyslop MSP, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, to ask for the announcement of a three-year culture budget in January 2021.

Building a Positive Workplace Culture: Best Practices for Success

Guest editorial. Does the games industry have a problem? Crunch, diversity & toxic office culture seems all too common.

We asked Purpose HR to explore how games companies can build a positive workplace culture…

Arcadia 2020

Arcadia Night 2020 is an evening of online micro-talks, game demos and discussions from leading game designers, creators, and thinkers from across the interactive industry.

The Future of Public Play – Thoughts from InGAME Insights 3

The thoughtful discussion during Creative Dundee’s recent InGAME Insights event quickly proved that this is a crucial time for how we think about play in public spaces – one wracked with challenges, but also teeming with potential.

Event: How We Shipped Minecraft Dungeons… Despite 2020

Find out about the challenges faced by the Double 11 team in releasing Minecraft Dungeons – in 2020 – at the next Queer Code event on Dec 1st