CONPULSION – Games Con, Edinburgh, This Weekend

Direct from Scottishgames partner SQUARE-GO.COM: Conpulsion is Scotland’s premier games convention and has been running under that name for the past 15 years but has existed in various forms for the past 25, acting as …

Dare To Be Documentary Airs This Weekend

At last year’s Dare to be Digital competition and ProtoPlay event, visitors and competitors were carefully followed by a dedicated camera crew from HeadLight Scotland, who were on site to carefully record and capture the …

Nicholas Lovell – Self-Publishing Masterclass – Glasgow

The games industry is changing and evolving very rapidly right now.  New platforms, new routes to market, new business models, new consumers all mean new opportunities for development studios.  Finding new ways of doing business, …

Game In Scotland, Dundee, Sat 26th March

If you haven’t come across the Game In Scotland recruitment fair before, it’s fairly simple to explain.  It’s a recruitment fair, for the games industry in Scotland.  See?  The clues were all there. It tends …

FPS Trainer Hits Beta, Announces New Features/Content

The Team at Play2Improve has been hard at work on FPS Trainer since the innovative training and coaching service for First-Person-Shooter games was announced in late 2010.  The response to the initial press release was …

Happy Birthday Lemmings!

There’s still time to sign up for tonight’s bash at Abertay (5pm-7pm) [Image Source]  

Game To Learn – Scotland’s Largest Games Based Learning Event – March 17th-19th

Readers of this blog, as clever and pretty as they undoubtedly are, may not have come across the Consolarium before.  Describing itself as the ‘Scottish Centre For Games & Learning’, the Consolarium uses commercially available …

Event – Lean & Agile For Project Success – Edinburgh, November 30th

Goshido has asked us to let you know about a new event, taking place in Edinburgh next week, focusing on project management and team performance: WHEN: Tuesday, 30th November 2010 6.00 PM – Registration – …

[Guest Editorial] My First Trip To NEoN

We’re delighted to present the first in a series of guest editorials from people within the games and interactive industries.  Kim Blake is the education liason manager for Blitz Games (and a fellow of the …

NESTA To Establish Developer-Led Games Publisher

NESTA – the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts has called on UK game developers to contribute to the creation of a developer-driven (and owned) publisher, to help ensure the protect the future …