Dare to be Digital, is looking for developers. Dare's Protoplay event, which takes place in central Dundee from 7th - 10th of August, will feature an indie games showcase, giving development studios the chance to demonstrate and give the event's 10,000+ visitors a chance to play and enjoy their games. All games are eligible, though new …
Gamescom – Free Match Making Service Offered To EU Companies
The lovely people at Creative Europe have just notified us of a new match making service for companies attending Gamescom in August. The service offers professionals a unique and efficient way to speed up business meetings at Gamescom. If you're interested in gaining access to new markets, up-scaling your technological base, marketing or other related topics, …
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Game Expo Scotland Announces First Titles
Deep Silver will be showing Dead Island 2 and Homefront 2: The Revolution at October's Game Expo Scotland in central Edinburgh. The games will be playing in the Expo's Hollywood Zone, set aside for AAA console and high profile titles. Taking place after the events of the multi-million seller Dead Island, GES 2014 attendees will go hands-on with Dead Island 2, …
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Edinburgh Game Symposium 2.0 – The Aftermath
Over on Bleeding Cool, official friend of the Scottish Games Network, Phil Harris has written an excellent summary of the weekend's Edinburgh Game Symposium. Rather than rewrite, or steal big chunks and pretend we're being creative, you can read the first part of Phil's summary here and then click through to find the rest on Bleeding Cool. …
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Edinburgh Game Symposium – Fri 27th Sat 28th
Some of the best developers, composers and sound designers from the global gaming industry will congregate in Edinburgh this weekend for the Edinburgh Game Symposium 2.0 (EGS). With two full days of presentations, workshops, discussions and performances focusing on the latest in games development, games music & audio, EGS is shaping up to be a …
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Ludometrics Bodychecks Radius Fest
Radius is a new indie games festival, held in the heart of London. It took place last week and drew in dozens of indie developers including our very own David Thomson of Ludometrics fame. Because he is a splendid fellow and thoroughly nice chap, Dave's written a round-up of the show for us. Thank you …
TIGA Tax Breaks Roadshow – Edinburgh
If you missed the video games tax breaks roadshow which took place in Edinburgh in April, there's another one coming up next month. Our friends at TIGA have a series of Q&A sessions taking place across the country and on Monday 21st of July, they are holding one in Edinburgh. It's free to attend for developers …
Dare to be Digital Launched By V&A Game Designer
The 2014 Dare to be Digital competition launched today, fronted by the V&A museum's first ever game designer in residence, Sophia George. Sophia was a Dare to be Digital competitor back in 2011, as part of Team Swallowtail. The team not only won Dare to be Digital, but went on to claim the BAFTA Ones To …
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Crackdown Returns – Made In Scotland
One of the major stories from this week's E3 is the return of Crackdown. The free roaming, sandbox cops n' robbers game is back and Dave Jones is at the helm. The original was created by Dundee's Realtime Worlds, while the sequel, Crackdown 2, saw Ruffian Games take over development. Dave is of course the …
Game Expo Scotland – TICKETS
Game Expo Scotland has released the first tickets for it's event, taking place on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of October in Edinburgh's International Conference Centre Promising a world class line-up of triple A console titles, awesome indie games, superstar speakers and more fun and games than you can shake a joystick at, Game Expo Scotland …