Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Calling all Scottish game developers, publishers, and industry professionals! Get ready to level up your network and connect with the vibrant games scene across Scotland. Games Talks Live is back! A three-day whirlwind of talks, networking, and collaboration awaits, taking place in Edinburgh, Dundee, and Glasgow – the beating hearts of the nation's games industry. …
Scotland's largest games festival, Scottish Games Week (SGW) 2023, has been nominated in the Event Of The Year category of the 2024 MCV/Develop Awards 2024. This recognition by the highly respected games industry publication underscores the success of SGW's mission to celebrate and promote the vibrant Scottish games industry while fostering a wider conversation about …
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Applications are now open for IndieLab Games Accelerator 2024 - the high-impact programme designed for up-and-coming games studios across the UK. The three-month accelerator helps games studios unlock potential, grow, innovate, attract publishing partners and find success. The 2024 Accelerator has been redesigned this year to focus not only on developing studios' growth plans but …
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On Monday 19th February 2024, King.com's Natalie Cook will take part in Defining Your Journey: A Lesson In Everyday Entrepreneurship. Natalie is a Dundee University graduate who works remotely from the City of Discovery for one the largest mobile games developers in the world, yet she came into it almost by accident. Hosted at the …
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A proposal for an esports arena in Dundee is causing confusion in the city by registering the company behind it as 'Dundee Arcadia Ltd'. This could prove problematic however, as 'Arcadia' is already an established brand in the games sector, thanks to the annual Arcadia event created and curated by Biome Collective, since 2017. It …
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The award-winning Games for the Weans campaign saw funds raised by game developers and publishers like No Code, Hyper Luminal Games and Astrodreamer Studio. Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity is delighted to reveal that the Games for the Weans campaign has raised over £66,000 in 2023. The GCHC (which won a Glasgow Business Award in October) …
Blackadders, one of Scotland’s leading law firms, has thrown its support behind Scottish Games Week by assuming the role of its official legal partner. Following on from their support of the first-ever Scottish Games Week in 2022, the firm is back this year and is keen to get stuck into the new legal issues coming …
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RSM UK, a leading audit, tax, and consulting adviser to middle market businesses, has thrown its hat into the Scottish Games Week ring as a Silver Sponsor. The company, which was named Accountancy Firm of the Year in the 2022 TIGA Games Awards, is looking to extend its already substantial support of the UK games …
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Applications are now open to developers, game creators, and businesses to exhibit and demo their games Scottish Games Week 2023. Expo space is available at the two-day SGW Conference, which takes place at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on Monday, October 30th & Tuesday 31st October and More Than Games, in the Corinthian Club in Glasgow …
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Team Terrible, the Dundee-based studio responsible for Baby In Yellow - one of the most downloaded games ever created in Scotland - has joined forces with Scottish Games Week 2023 as the event’s Platinum sponsor. This will give the studio a high-profile presence across the whole week-long programme of events, which take place in Edinburgh, …
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