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New Scottish Games Event For 2016 – RESONATE Total Gaming
Glasgow-based QD Events has announced that it is planning a major new public-facing games event in summer 2016. Resonate Total Gaming is described as a festival of gaming and e-sports, which will take place at the SECC in Glasgow from the 29th - 31st of July next year. The organisers promise that the festival will …
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BAFTA Scotland Award Nominations Announced
BAFTA Scotland has just announced all of the nominees for the 2015 awards. In the games category the three games short listed are: Monstrum - Team Junkfish Distant Star: Revenant Fleet - Blazing Griffin Rituals - Tymon Zgainski You can see trailers for all three games below. You can also check out the full list …
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Team Rock Games – Now Hiring
Ladies and gentlemen, a brand new opportunity has arisen within one of the country's most exciting new games companies. Team Rock is a Scottish start-up with a very simple ambition - to become the global home of rock and metal. The company's new games division is now recruiting, looking for a games programmer and a …
Channel 4 Opens Glasgow-Based Publisher
After several years of quietly publishing games based upon its own properties, as well as a number of up-and-coming indie games, Channel 4 has announced the creation of a dedicated mobile games publisher. All 4 Games will be based at the company's Glasgow headquarters. The publisher will be releasing of Channel 4 funded games, along …
Glasgow Film Festival – Games & Comics Merge – Meet Nerdvana
The Glasgow Film Festival has a long history of incorporating and giving space to videogames over the last few years. From panels exploring the influence of comics, to an afternoon of choose-your-own-documentary goodness, the festival has extended open arms to gamers. 2015 is no exception and indeed the festival has doubled down on the geeky …
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Game In Scotland 2015 – The Next Generation
It's all change for Game In Scotland, the country's home-grown recruitment event focused on the gaming sector. Created originally as a graduate recruitment event, the event has been funded to date by the team at Scottish Enterprise. Now however, the role of Game In Scotland and the opportunities for the sector have changed hugely. Scottish Enterprise …
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