The local chapter of STV popped into the Dundee HQ of Outplay Entertainment earlier this week to take a look at what the company's working on and ponder the ongoing evolution of the games business. Superstar reporter Holly Hamilton spoke to senior producer Tone Brennan and a handsome passerby to ask how the industry has …
Quarrel Finally Heading To Xbox Live – Includes Multiplayer – Millions Make Merry
Quarrel, the highly regarded word game from Denki hit the iOS market towards the end of 2011. It proved quite popular with critics and players. It was awarded excellent scores and hit several 'game of the year' round ups. And scored a BAFTA. Now Quarrel is coming to Xbox. The game's original incarnation will finally …
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Scottish Games Jam – Back, Bigger, Better, More
The Scottish Games Jam is the local outpost of the massive Global Game Jam - an annual competition which challenges teams to build an original new game in only 48 hours. Organised by the Independent Game Developers Association, the global games jam has run since 2008. Last year, the jam attracted over 6,500 competitors, in …
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Digital Goldfish Buoyant As Bloons Reach Lofty New Heights
Digital Goldfish, the studio behind the hugely popular iOS versions of the Bloons series of games are celebrating a phenomenal start to 2012 with news that the latest game in the series - Bloons 2 - is riding high in the iPhone App Store charts and has had a very successful Christmas indeed on the Nintendo …
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Pugs Luv Beats Nominated For IGF Award
Lucky Frame's quirky and deeply cool Pugs Luv Beats has been nominated in the Independent Games Festival's 'Excellence In Audio' award category. The IGF is the world's leading indie games competition. It runs alongside the prestigious Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco in early March. All of the finalists will have their …
Consolevania – Out Now On iTunes
In one of the most generous and artistically significant moves of the mobile age, the first two seasons of Consolevania, the ground-breaking Scottish videogames show, are now FREE to download on iTunes. This includes the monumentally important Scottish Games Industry Fluff Piece, created by the Consolevania team for the Edinburgh Interactive festival in 2008. It's …
Eldevin – New Massively-Multiplayer Role-Playing Game In Development By Hunted Cow
Hunted Cow, the Elgin-based Online Role-playing game specialist has launched a website to support the company's forthcoming game Eldevin. Eldevin is a browser-based massively-multiplayer role playing game (or MMORPG if you prefer). Elvdein is Java-based and features both Player-versus-Environment (PvE or doing stuff yourself) and Player-versus-Player (PVP or knocking lumps out of other people) gameplay. …
2011 in review
What a year! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. 2012 promises even bigger and better things for Scottishgames and the whole culture of making games in Scotland... Here's an excerpt: Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 65,000 times in …
Free Games
It would seem that the generosity of spirit, love and compassion which the games industry is famous for, is shining out like a beacon for Christmas 2011. A variety of developers have provided promo codes for their games to say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or more ecumenically, have a lovely couple of weeks off... Here's …
Play For Good – Fat Bob, PlayMob & SpecialEffect Launch Drop Catcher For Charity
We covered the launch of Drop Catcher earlier this year, when the game hit the App Store. Now however, Fat Bob Games, the developer of Drop Catcher are working with Play Mob & games charity Special Effect to raise money via the game's in-app purchases. Drop Catcher is free to download and play, but will …
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