After a year which can best be described as 'challenging', Creative Scotland, the organisation tasked with supporting, promoting and helping Scotland's creativity is holding a number of 'open sessions' which will "encourage open debate on Creative Scotland and its place in a healthy and thriving future for the arts, screen and creative industries." The open... Continue Reading →
WeeWorld is reviving it's Glasgow Mobile Breakfast meetups after a brief hiatus, opening it's conference room doors to a roundtable of developers and mobile businesses for discussion and debate on the stuff that matters to them. Past attendees, who have come from as far as Edinburgh and Dundee, will be familiar with the no holds... Continue Reading →
The Technology Strategy Board, in partnership with Creative Clyde has launched a funding competition for digital media and technology companies based in Glasgow. The Digital & Creative Clyde Launchpad competition is open to SMEs based in the area covered by Glasgow City Council, those planning to move or set up there and projects involving collaboration with... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, you are currently reading Scotland's most up-to-date accurate and, well, only source of news and information for the Scottish games industry. We've been told independently by many of the organisations, groups and governmental initiatives here in Scotland, that they use the Scottishgames' Company Directory as the primary source... Continue Reading →
It's been a tumultuous and busy 24 hours. Â 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... Continue Reading →
Yesterday we reported that the digital media and interactive sectors had been inexplicably omitted from the 2012 Year of Creative Scotland awards. Â Today the reason may have become a little clearer. The games industry in Scotland does not exist in any significant way. Â It contributes nothing to the economy, there are only 200 people working... Continue Reading →
2012 has been the Year of Creative Scotland. Â A nation wide celebration of creativity which highlights all of the amazing talent, the clever businesses and the dedicated organisations we have here in Scotland. Unless you work in digital media. Â The recently announced Creative Scotland awards have categories for film and television, literature, music, theatre -... Continue Reading →
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. Â Players, developers, families, students and... Continue Reading →
The government's proposed tax breaks system for the interactive industry has generally been considered a good thing. Â The devil, however, is in the details. Â Many developers are at least partially suspicious that the government will grant tax relief only to meda corporations, or make the process so hideously complex and tied into a spurious sense... Continue Reading →
