Play2Improve, the company behind FPS Trainer, the new online service which teaches gamers to compete more effectively in online FPS games, is holding it's public world premiere on MONDAY 20th December, at HMV's Gamerbase on Princes Street in Edinburgh... FPS Trainer, the brand new online service which combines sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based coaching technology with …
YoYo Games Releases Teka Teki
Teka Teki, the latest release from YoYo Games promises a Tetris-style puzzle game in which players have to place food tiles in groups so that the adjacent animal tiles can scoff them in as large a group as possible. The larger the groups, the bigger the combos. If you're not convinced, there's a Lite version, …
Denki Announces Big Cup Cricket, Pronounces It ‘++Awesome’
The folks at Denki have been very quiet over the last few months. Many saw this as proof positive that the company was sub-contracted to Santa, making toys and games for the good boys and girls of the world. Other, less charitable souls, claimed it was because the company was trying to suppress new that …
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Games Addiction Debate – Radio Scotland
This morning's Call Kaye programme on Radio Scotland, covered the topic of games addicition, following Monday's controversial Panorama report looking at the same issue. The Panorama piece has been already picked apart by much of the games media. The conclusion is generally that it was poorly researched, anecdotal and featured advice to 'addicted' gamers to …
Digital Goldfish Releases Bloons TD 4
Digital Goldfish has released the latest title in the popular Bloons series - Bloons TD 4 (the TD stands for 'Tower Defence'). If you're not familiar with Bloons, it's a whole family of games in which a charismatic monkey hurls darts at balloons, with the goal of bursting them all. The Tower Defence games build …
Proper Games’ Final Fight: Double Impact Nominated In IGN’s Best Of 2010
Final Fight: Double Impact has been nominated in the 'Best Co-Op Game' category in IGN's Best of 2010 roundup. Developed by Proper Games in Dundee, Final Fight was released earlier this year for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network
Spiffing Games Wants You To Get Infected
Dundee-based indie games developer Spiffing Games has released its latest title, Infected, which is now free to play online. Infected is an unashamed homage to classic board games like Go or Othello, in which the player has to place pieces on a grid to occupy as much space as possible and turn the opposing player's …
Knock Knock. Who’s There? Doctor…
Doctor Who? Yes, Tag's latest TV tie-in, Doctor Who: The Mazes Of Time, was shown off for the first time earlier this week, with two initial screenshots (one of which is above) released by BBC Worldwide. The game is due for release is early December, but there's no word yet on the precise date or …
Space Police on Super Highway 9 – New Xbox Indie Game From Haiku Interactive
Edinburgh's Haiku Interactive has released its latest title on the Xbox Indie channel. Space Police on Super Highway 9, is a top-down, vertically scrolling racing game, in which the player has to patrol the infinite road network of galactic highway 9, tracking down law breakers, ne'er do wells and perps, then ramming them off the …
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3MRT Launches New iPhone Apps
Edinburgh-based 3MRT is a company working in the 'educational' or 'serious' gaming sector, using games technology and techniques to create 'accelerated learning software designed to improve the retention of information and exam performance of its users.' 3MRT's flagship InQuizitor range is now available for the iPhone and iPod through the Apple App Store. Published by …