Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
If you're not familiar with TRC Media's Cross Creative Programme, now's the time to learn. It's a fabulous opportunity for individuals in the creative industries (this includes video games) to improve their skills, increase their knowledge and make themselves far more valuable, wise and useful. This year’s programme will include seven in-house sessions (one day …
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Richard Lemarchand, Lead Game Designer on all three Uncharted games, will lead the line-up at Dare ProtoPlay, Scotland’s biggest video games festival. Dare ProtoPlay, which is organised and run by Abertay University, champions the very best in digital creativity and innovation, from the 15 student games created for the Dare to be Digital game design …
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The Computer Games Journal. the academic paper focused on issues specific to the global video games industry, which was created and run from Scotland, has been acquired. The new owner is the prestigious, Springer Science & Business Media LLC on of the world's leading academic publishers. A purchase agreement contract was signed yesterday, by the editors-in-chief of The …
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Attention audio professionals. Music Gateway is an online portal, which gives musicians a portal to the rest of the creative world. This allows game developers, film makers, animators and others to find musicians for projects, as well as giving the musicians a showcase for their talents. If you're an audio professional - freelance or part of …
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According to new research, the mobile app markets are dominated by games. Midia research, created a new report looking at the global app markets, discovered that out of the top 700 grossing apps, 84.9% are games. Social networking came next with a paltry 4.1%, then dating with 3.9% and navigation and travel accounting for only 2.3%. …
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Hunted Cow, Scotland's secret games publisher and one of the country's biggest success stories, announced that it has signed a deal with American board game creators Victory Point Games. Victory Point Games is an award-winning games company, based in California. Victory Point started life as a historical war games company, but has expanded hugely to …
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Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan is suing Take 2, the company behind the Grand Theft Auto series for, allegedly making a character in GTA V an unequivocal representation of her. Former child star Lohan contends that her voice and image are reproduced in the game, as well as styles taken from her clothing line. In GTA V, the character, …
The lovely people at Creative Europe have just notified us of a new match making service for companies attending Gamescom in August. The service offers professionals a unique and efficient way to speed up business meetings at Gamescom. If you're interested in gaining access to new markets, up-scaling your technological base, marketing or other related topics, …
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Over on Bleeding Cool, official friend of the Scottish Games Network, Phil Harris has written an excellent summary of the weekend's Edinburgh Game Symposium. Rather than rewrite, or steal big chunks and pretend we're being creative, you can read the first part of Phil's summary here and then click through to find the rest on Bleeding Cool. …
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IGDA Scotland has announced its next event - and it's a big one. On Tuesday 8th of July, in association with Abertay University, the organisation is giving everyone who cares to come, a chance to hear from Ed Fries. If you've not heard of Ed before, he has been developing video games for more than thirty years. …