Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Outplay Entertainment is the new social/casual/mobile games publisher founded earlier this year by Doug and Richard Hare. Since the company was launched in February, it's had its head down, working away, recruiting staff and creating several original new games. The first of these, Word Trick, was released several weeks ago and has just received a …
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The 2011 British Academy Awards Scotland were here in central Glasgow last night. Alongside a veritable who's who of glamorous talent and fabulous celebrities, the awards recognised the best games created in Scotland. Three companies were nominated for the award. Cohort Studios (for Me Monstar, Hear Me Roar!), Cobra (for iBomber Defense) and Denki (for …
A consortium of four technology companies - including Codeplay in Edinburgh - and two universities, has been awarded a grant of 2.9 million Euros, from the EU. The money will be used for research into the next generation of hardware for video games consoles. The consortium is comprised of four companies - Codeplay, Cambridge-based Geomerics, AI …
Cobra's Storm In A Teacup, which offers players the chance to fly a tiny boy-toting teacup through a dreamlike world of wonder, is now out on a brand new platform. The Roku is a streaming media player, which is available primarily in North America. It offers a range of streaming content, including the …
Scotland's Playwrights' Studio has created the 360 Narratives course, to offer writers the opportunity to learn about and experience other forms of writing. Working in teams, writers and narrative creators from different fields will collaborate to create story worlds that can be exploited across a variety of media by looking at how to develop ideas …
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The prototype fund, which is administered by the University of Abertay Dundee has announced that nine new games companies have received investments of £25,000 each. 47 companies applied for investment from the most recent round of funding from the £5M prototype fund. The nine companies chosen were assessed on their business potential. Applications are also …
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Rockstar Games has announced that first information about the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto 5 (a trailer), will be released on the 2nd of November. You can find the official page over on the Rockstar Games website.
It's taken a little while longer than planned, but we're thrilled, delighted and generally chuffed to announce the launch of the brand new Scottishgames.net JOBS PAGE. Sure, it's a little rough and ready at the moment, but it's heading in the right direction. Pulling together ALL of the games, interactive and digital media related roles …
It's a busy week for releases. Hot on the heels of their move into new (larger) office premises Tag Games has released the first title from their new original games label, Tag Play. Funpark Friends is an original new game for iPhone and iPad in which players must create and manage their own theme park. …
Despite being one of the country's more prolific studios, we've not heard a huge amount from Glasgow's T-Enterprise in the last few months. We're guilty of not covering absolutely everything (since this day job doesn't half get in the way of covering everything you lovely people get up to). So it's extra DOUBLE awesome to …
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