Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Zombies are, to be fair, a perfect subject for videogames. They're slow moving, pitiless and you can machine gun, burn, explode, chop or otherwise mutilate them without mercy, since they're already undead. However, some zombie horror can be a little... grim. Brains and guts everywhere. Limbs flying in all directions and a screen which ends …
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2011 promises to be quite the creative wonderland for game designers and developers. Anything which encourages new talent, new games and more innovation gets our whole-hearted support. The first development-related event of 2011 is rapidly heading our way. The 28th of January marks the start of this year's Global Games Jam - a worldwide game …
UPDATED - Now includes Firebrand and Triple B Games... “Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the rest of the play?” Any review of the games and gaming sector in Scotland in 2010 is going to be a little like reviewing the Titanic's first cruise. No matter how impeccable the service, or exquisite the canapes, …
Chucking snowballs used to be considered good, healthy fun. Wrap the kids up warm, kick them outside and as long as nothing serious got broken, it was a big win all round. Now, however, you get Daily Mail complaining, Police handing out ASBOs like they're crackers and children as young as two being banged-up for …
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Doctor Who's first mobile gaming adventure - the Mazes Of Time - created by Tag Games, is now available for iPhone and iPad in the Apple App Store. In his very first mobile game outing the Doctor and his sidekick Amy Pond must rescue a family abducted from deep space by the Daleks. As you’d …
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Play2Improve, the company behind FPS Trainer, the new online service which teaches gamers to compete more effectively in online FPS games, is holding it's public world premiere on MONDAY 20th December, at HMV's Gamerbase on Princes Street in Edinburgh... FPS Trainer, the brand new online service which combines sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based coaching technology with …
The folks at Denki have been very quiet over the last few months. Many saw this as proof positive that the company was sub-contracted to Santa, making toys and games for the good boys and girls of the world. Other, less charitable souls, claimed it was because the company was trying to suppress new that …
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a new member of the Scottish games community. Chunk Games is a new label, created by Glasgow digital design agency Chunk. The company has worked in the marketing, advertising and design field for a number of years now and has produced several 'games' both in the traditional sense and in …
With a growing number of game developers now focusing on the new App markets, today's announcement for Google could represent a new way to enter the online and browser-based market for many of Scotland's mobile and smartphone studios. Google's Chrome browser has quietly been getting on with impressing people over the last several months. It's …
Final Fight: Double Impact has been nominated in the 'Best Co-Op Game' category in IGN's Best of 2010 roundup. Developed by Proper Games in Dundee, Final Fight was released earlier this year for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network