Rockstar Games has announced that the much anticipated GTA V is due for release in Spring 2013. The game will be available for pre-order from November 5th. The game is currently in development at Rockstar North HQ in Edinburgh. Could this be the biggest selling GTA title yet? To date, the series has sold over …
Culture Secretary Admits Games Companies May Be Hiding
A mere six weeks after the Scottish Games Network set the world afire with a detailed dissection of the Economic Contribution Study, PR company Media House has sprung into action and written a letter expressing concern to cabinet secretary for culture and external affairs, Fiona Hyslop, according to The Drum. Ms Hyslop replied that the …
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Mind Games – Scottish Mental Health Film Festival ‘Walkthrough’
If you're in Glasgow, or unafraid of the public transport system within central Scotland, you can make your way to Cineworld 7 this evening, for a videogames session taking place as part of the 2012 Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival. Walkthrough is an exploration of the positive effects of videogames and games culture. …
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Indie Game: The Movie Comes To Dundee with NEoN 2012
Following over a year of email campaigns and fan requests, the coveted video-game film epic finds a home in Scotland's original game making hub. Indie Game: The Movie follow's the story of the makers of Fez, Super Meat Boy and a handful of other people who dedicate their work to the creation of their own …
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Creative Scotland Awards 2012 – Decision Time
It emerged a few weeks ago that the 2012 Creative Scotland Awards had categories for film, TV, music, performing arts but games, interactive entertainment and digital media had been neglected. We've since had several conversations with representatives from Creative Scotland who have gone some way to explaining why games didn't appear in the awards. Put …
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Out Now – Gears Of Glory: Apex Ace
If there's one indie game we've been looking forward to over the last several months, it's Gears Of Glory. A technical top-down racer, the game offers players a more challenging experience than the normal zoomy, drivey, drifty type of arcade game. The handling needs to be learned, man. You need to spend some time figuring …
You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, GCH, FDG, UF, Inc Mnstrs, Ghsts, Zmbs VGC
Interactive Fiction is alive and well and being written in Scotland. Yes, the purest, most literate and graphically rich form of gaming has not died and been buried in an unmarked, unregarded grave, unmourned, dismissed and forgotten. If you're not 'au fait' (literally 'with brains') with Interactive Fiction, it's the old fashioned kind of game …
Scottish Government Responds To Creative Industries Report
It's been a tumultuous and busy 24 hours. News of the research into Scotland's creative industries has spread throughout the global games sector and into the mainstream media... Now, the Scottish government has been in touch to tell us that they know it's wrong and they're working on better figures and more reliable information. Here's …
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Exhibiting At A Festival – Lessons For Indie Developers
After a jaunt to the frozen North, visiting the far frontier of UK games development, we return with a guest post from the astonishingly resilient Colin Riley (aka @Domipheus) who took part in the first ever Dare to be Digital Indie Showcase at this year's Protoplay event. We say resilient because Colin ran his entire …
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Dare Winners Announced At Biggest Ever ProtoPlay
The 2012 Dare to be Digital competition came to a climax yesterday, when the winning teams were announced at a star-studded, glamorous and confetti covered awards ceremony. The awards were handed out at the end of the three day ProtoPlay event, which drew in a record crowd of over 10,000. Players, developers, families, students and …
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