Party time, people. IGDA Scotland, in association with the Edinburgh Game Symposium and with the lovely people at Kobojo paying for the drinks and atmos, present the EGS & IGDA Kick Off Party! It takes place at Cask and Cork in Dundee's 'vibrant' east end (the Seagate to be precise). There will be networking. Local …
Edinburgh Games Symposium – ProtoPlay Edition
Heads up, folks. The 2015 http://www.edingame.com/ takes place on Wednesday and Thursday next week. The symposium's rather awesome (and unique) mix of panels, speakers, music, performance, concerts, discussion and debate are back, but this year there's a twist... It's in Dundee. Yes, Scotland's throbbing games hub is playing host to the country's most exciting and …
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Indie Developers – Dare Protoplay Needs YOU
Developers. Dare ProtoPlay wants you. And your games. Dare ProtoPlay is the culmination of the annual Dare to be Digital competition. In previous years, the competition drew 10-15 teams of students travel to Dundee for the summer and build a working prototype of their game, before demonstrating, playing and showing them off in public at …
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OUT NOW – Let’s Go Rocket
Cobra Mobile is perhaps best known for the studio's popular iBomber series, which encompasses two top down destruct-em-up bombing games (iBomber 1 & 2), a twin-stick blast-em-up (Attack) and a couple of truly excellent tower defence (em-up) games (Defense & Defense Pacific). For its latest release Cobra has abandoned the war-torn battlefields of WWII and …
Angry Birds Stella Hits 30M Downloads
Rovio, the publisher of the world's favourite bird-tossing, pig-killing, infrastructure destroying mobile game has announced that Stella, the latest part of the ongoing Angry Birds franchise has been downloaded over 30,000,000 times. The latest title, Angry Birds Stella: Pop, which was created by Scotland's Outplay has already reached more than 5,000,000 downloads - and is proving …
360 Digital – Game Developer Conference – 23rd April – Dundee
On April 23rd Interactive Scotland will hold its first ever GDC Studio Session, an event which captures the buzz, the themes, the issues and the opportunities coming out of the 2015 Game Developer Conference. Focused on the issues significant to the industry in Scotland, the even brings together some of the country's most experienced, outspoken …
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YoYo Games Acquired For $16.4M
Dundee's YoYo Games, the creator of the popular Gamer Maker: Studio software has been acquired by PlayTech one of the world's leading creators of gambling software. In addition to online gambling, PlayTech also offers a number of development tools and systems for creating online games. GameMaker: Studio will now join the company's portfolio of tools. …
Outplay are hiring across a variety of roles
Outplay are continuing to add to their teams and our 2015 projects by actively hiring across all departments. As well as the roles listed below we continually look for great talent to add to our ambitious and highly talented team so if there isn't a role below that fits what your looking for get in touch with …
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Monstrum – Out Now
Monstrum, the highly-anticipated, trouser-foulingly-frightening, procedurally-generated survival horror game from Dundee's Junkfish has gone live on Steam and the Humble Store. The game is on early access, allowing the developers to gather feedback from players, during the final stages of development. Initial signs are promising. Early reviews and feedback have been very positive with both gaming …
OUT NOW – ZenTorii
The wonders of nature, the nature of existence, the existence of nature. All of these things and more - or less - are the focus of a new interactive experience released by RamenSoft, a team of second year students from Abertay University. Zentorii was created in conjunction with industry veteran, official SGN chum and occasional …