Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The European Parliament has approved the European Commission's new Creative Europe programme, with a budget of €1.46Bn over the next seven years. This is a 9% increase on current funding and is aimed at european culture, cinema, television, games, music, literature, performing arts, heritage and related areas. It also explicitly states that this funding is …
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There's a new Kickstarter project promising to create the ultimate documentary on the horror game genre. Playing With Fear is a project from Anthony Carpendale which will dissect the art, craft and community of horror games. The documentary promises to explore a wide range of games, both classic and forthcoming, from Silent Hill, 7th Guest …
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It's always gratifying to hear about projects in the interactive media sector which receive support from Creative Scotland. Yet it's surprising when the project in question is a technology company rather than a content creator. Even more surprising when it's a company we've not yet covered on the Scottish Games Network... Yesterday however, Zapcoder in …
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After several delays and changes in venue, the SGN Launch event finally reaches Glasgow. Taking place on the evening of Wednesday 27th of November at GMAC in the Trongate, Glasgow, this is YOUR opportunity to find out our plans for the SGN, ask questions, provide input and help make the Scottish games industry better. Last …
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Scotland boasts a large number of developers and development studios, 94 at our last count. Yet few of the games emerging from the development community are actually based in Scotland itself. So it was a delight to find Beeswing a new Zelda-like 2D RPG game currently seeking crowd funding for development. Set in and around …
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Here's an opportunity for ambitious companies who may be considering looking beyond their next title... The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has launched its strategy to accelerate innovation and growth in the Creative Industries and is aimed at helping SME digital businesses develop digital technologies, platforms and services. More than £30 million of support is being made available …
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Take 2, parent company of Rockstar Games has reported that GTA V has achieved the company's highest ever sell through sales revenues, with the game achieving $800M in global sales in the first 24 hours of release. This is a record for the GTA series, for Take 2 and may well be the highest day …
IC tomorrow has launched the ‘Digital Innovation Contest - Games' contest to encourage digital innovation in the games sector.The organisation is offering five businesses up to £25k (ex VAT) each to develop innovative commercial prototypes that meet the broad objectives we have set with our industry partners:Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE)Crytek UKIntelGoogle ChromeODEON CinemasPinewood StudiosIC Tomorrow is looking for …
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This year's Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay featured a two day indie conference, which focused on the issue of convergence - the ongoing overlap between video games and other areas of the arts and media, including film, television, literature and music. This was a bold move from Dare. Convergence is a topic which is normally …
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At 5pm on Sunday the 11th of August, the 2013 Dare to be Digital ProtoPlay event drew to a close. The four day even in central Dundee, pulled in a record breaking crowd of 13,000 players, gamers, developers, designers, stars, ministers, legends and families. Fiona Hyslop, the Cabinet Secretary for Culture & External Affairs opened …
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