Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
If you're in central Scotland on March 27th (next Tuesday), you owe it to yourself to come along to the first UKIE Scotland event focusing on accessing finance. Key speakers include Jo Twist and Andy Payne - the CEO and Chair of UKIE as well as representatives from a number of other organisations offering practical …
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Last night saw the first meeting of the new cross-party group on videogames technology at the Scottish Parliament. Convened by MSP Joe Fitzpatrick, whose constituency covers Dundee, the group is designed to look at the whole games sector and how it can do business more effectively in Scotland. Despite many companies attending the Game Developer …
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It's request time, readers. Anthony Reynolds from Glasgow University is looking for people to help his research into gaming culture and mature content in videogames. It's not another survey into violent games = violent behaviour. Rather he's looking for input from gamers to help shape the research itself. If you can spare 10 minutes at …
Because it's important, dammit... A misty-eyed Cara Ellison from Square-Go interviews a steely-eyed and chiselled Robert Florence on the legacy of Consolevania. If you're not familiar with the Consolevania 'thing', well, you should be. Thankfully you can now download all of them (including the inspirationally Scotland-heavy Fluff piece) from iTunes. Go read the piece, watch …
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Highway Hobo is the game formerly known as 'Bummer' aka, the Frogger type game featuring a drunken bum. If that's not a premise that makes you immediately interested, then we don't know what will. Out now on the Android market (or Google Play as we must now call it), from the team at Braindead Ape, Highway …
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YoYo's busy and efficient release schedule is back with the company's latest title emerging for both Android and iOS. Froad (is he/she a frog or a toad? We may never know...) In Froad, players are challenged to catch and nom down on tasty, tasty bugs - and avoid yucky horrid bugs, to keep Froad alive. …
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Edinburgh's Games Analytics have signed a deal with Bigpoint, the German-based online games publisher. The deal will integrate Games Analytic's Predict platform into Bigpoint's games. This will allow Bigpoint to analyse and predict user behaviour. They can use this information to enhance the user experience, personalise games and increase retention rates and revenues. Games Analytics …
Everyone's favourite tangerine coloured, mobile game type, non-analogue, low maintenance, pet themed development studio, Digital Goldfish has had quite a good couple of years, thank you. The company's work on the massively popular Bloons franchise has gone from strength to strength, while DG's original content and other branded games have also started to gain traction …
The Courier has helpfully pointed out that several Scottish companies are attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. It just lists the ones from Dundee and Fife however. Outplay, Tag, YoYo and Zendit are all highlighted, though there are 21 Scottish companies attending the event. From The Courier: A contingent of 21 …
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JACKED is the new book from journalist and author David Kushner (Masters Of Doom) looking at the development of the Grand Theft Auto series. Mr Kushner promises to go behind the scenes of the insanely popular series and look at those responsible for making the game happen. We're excited, we won't lie. Not least because …