Game In Scotland – The Speakers

Our week of exclusive Game In Scotland coverage continues with a run down of the speakers who'll be on stage this Saturday (9th of March) to tell the audience more about their companies, their games, their new releases and the future of the entire interactive industry... Denki Denki's Player Champion, Romana Ramzan will be the …

Want To Do Business In China? SDI Has An Offer For You

China is rapidly becoming the dominant force in a number of areas.  From a recent Quartz article we learn that: "After becoming the world’s leading manufacturer of goods and largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China can add world’s leading consumer of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) to its trophy case. “By the end of February …

Game In Scotland – The Exhibitors

Our exclusive week of information and updates for Game In Scotland 2013 continues with the exclusive list of exhibitors who will be taking part in this year's event. There are more than 20 companies who will have stands in Dundee this coming Saturday (9th March), covering everything from development studios to consumer electronics, through to …

Game In Scotland – Keynote Speaker Announced

  Game In Scotland, the country's largest recruitment event for the videogames, i nteractive and digital media sector has today announced it's keynote speaker for 2013. Romana Ramzan will be opening the whole event.  If you've not met Romana at some point in the last few years, you've clearly not been to any of the …

Glasgow Mobile Breakfast Returns For Another Helping of Croissants

WeeWorld is reviving it's Glasgow Mobile Breakfast meetups after a brief hiatus, opening it's conference room doors to a roundtable of developers and mobile businesses for discussion and debate on the stuff that matters to them. Past attendees, who have come from as far as Edinburgh and Dundee, will be familiar with the no holds …

ENABLE Scotland – Game Design Workshop

Last weekend Guerilla Tea, working with ENABLE Scotland’s East Renfrewshire Local Area Coordination Team, ran a game development workshop in Glasgow for children and young adults with Asperger’s Syndrome and other similar learning disabilities. We met with East Renfrewshire LAC Team last year at the ScotCampus Futures Fest in Glasgow. ENABLE Scotland is a charity …

One Day Digital – Development Workshops – Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow & Edinburgh

NESTA (the National Endowment For Science Technology and the Arts - but you knew that...) is holding a series of events across Scotland, designed to help young people (kids aged 13+) to access new technology, digital media and interactivity. One Day Digital gives participants the chance to experiment with, play with and explore a variety …

Two Fat Ladies Help Binary Pumpkin Grab Valentine By The Balls

Dundee's premier fruit-based development studio, Binary Pumpkin has been enjoying a a great deal of success with their inaugural game, Pumpkin Bingo.  The game's had over 50,000 downloads on Google play and has over 2000 ratings, averaging around 4.4 out of 5 stars. Now the studio has updated the game with a new seasonal version, …

IGDA Scotland Announces Latest Scholarship Recipient

The International Game Developers Association does far more than organise events and get involved in fun, games-related activities.  The organisation is dedicated to helping individuals working within the videogames sector. As part of this, the IGDA created a programme of scholarships back in 2001, designed to help promising students attend the prestigious (and incredibly useful) …

Game In Scotland 2013 – March 9th, Dundee

Breaking news from the front lines of the games event horizon, the 2013 Game In Scotland event is ON. The country's larges games recruitment fair takes place in Fat Sam's Nightclub, Dundee from 12pm-5pm on Saturday March 9th. If you're a student, a graduate, a freelancer, an industry veteran looking for a new position, or …