Introducing Euphonious

Euphonious is a new company, headquartered in Dundee, created by industry veteran and long-time audio geek Raymond Usher, formerly of Realtime Worlds, Rockstar North and DMA Design. Euphonious is offering a comprehensive range of audio services to digital, broadcast, animation and of course, interactive companies. From sound effect creation to music composition, licensing, direction and …

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 whole experience. Now, all of their hard work can be seen on national TV, when the three-part series runs on …

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, or identifying these new opportunities can be difficult, when the industry is changing around you, which can leave some developers …

First Ever Dare Game Hits The App Store

The first videogame, created as part of the Dare to be Digital competition, has launched commercially on the Apple App Store. Sculpty, which was created by Team Tickle as part of the 2010 Dare competition is now available for the iPad. Sculpty is a physics-based platform game, in which players pinch, poke, stretch and sculpt …

GTA V Rumours Surface As GTA IV Sales Hit 20M

The GTA V rumour mill went up a notch this week, with news that Take Two has arranged a casting call for an as yet undisclosed project, known only by the codename 'Rush'. It's widely surmised that Rush is the next installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise and that the game will be set …

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 very positive.  So much so that the hosts of the original website, immediately collapsed under the tsunami of visitors.  As …

Introducing Pocket Starship – And Rotor

It's always a pleasure to hear from a new development studio.  Pocket Starship is a start-up, based in Edinburgh, which has just released Rotor, its first game for the Xbox Live Arcade Indie channel. When pressed by Scottishgames for a bit of background, founders Nick and Richard told us: "We're a small (but perfectly formed) …

Dead Island – Created By Axis Animation

Last week's viral video hit - in the games world at least - was the gripping trailer for Deep Silver's forthcoming zombie survival game, Dead Island. Over the weekend we received confirmation from our friends at Axis Animation in Glasgow that they are the company behind the animation.  Directed by Axis owner and director, Stuart …

Introducing Games Analytics

Games Analytics is a start-up company, founded by Chris Wright and Tim Christian.  The company is a 'data-mining and monetization company, headquartered in Edinburgh, serving the online video games industry'. Headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has just opened a dedicated US office, appointing industry veteran and co-founder of Activision Alan Miller as director of North …

3MRT’s Inquizitor Hits Front Page Of App Store

3MRT's Inquizitor range of apps, which teach stadard and GCSE subjects such as English, French, Biology, Maths and Physics hit the front page of the Apple App Store earlier this week, as one of the several 'Apps of the week', chosen by the App store staff. Inquizitor uses games technology and game-like experience to help …