Scotland has done quite well in the popular 'tower defence' genre in the last few years. Ninja Kiwi's monkey-based Bloons TD hit several Best Games lists, while Lucky Frame's Bad Hotel walked off with a BAFTA and Cobra's underrated iBomber Defense and iBomber Defense Pacific were classics of the genre. Now there's a new kid …
OUT NOW – VM Fireworks
The Edinburgh festival (the world's largest arts festival, don't forget) may be over for another year, but thanks to Hippotrix, now the whole world can enjoy the festival's earth-shattering climax in the comfort of their pocket or purse, thanks to the new VM Fireworks app. Available in Apple’s App Store, the iOS app lets users create their …
OUT NOW: Winx Club Mystery Of The Abyss
Glasgow's Tsumanga Studios is continuing to release new games based upon the incredibly popular Winx Club license. The studio's games (Winx Sirenix Power & Winx Fairy School) have already been downloaded over 5.5 million time and the studio is confident their latest title will help them reach 10 million in the near future. Winx Club: …
OUT NOW: Gruffalo Games
The Gruffalo, the beloved children's picture book, written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, has been joined by a brand new mobile game. Gruffalo: Games has been developed by Stormcloud Games, in conjunction with Magic Light Pictures. Gruffalo: Games is out now for iOS devices - iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch priced at a …
OUT NOW – Nightmare Cooperative (iOS)
It's true! Lucky Frame's collective, collaborative rogue-like, Nightmare Cooperative is OUT NOW for iOS devices (so iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches). If you've not read about the game yet, then you must. You simply must. You can read some of the smashing, wonderful and invigorating things that people have said about it HERE and HERE. …
Develop Live Announces First Speakers
Develop Live, the new developer focused conference taking place in Edinburgh in October has just announced the first speakers taking part in the event. Scottish author and avid FPS gamer, Christopher Brookmyre is speaking. In a session entitled 'From novel to game and back again', Scottish author Brookmyre will be discussing his latest novel Bedlam, …
Channel 4 Publishes BAFTA Winning Dare Game
Size DOES Matter, a frantic music-fuelled arcade game and winner of the last BAFTA Ones to Watch Award, is OUT NOW, published by Channel 4. The game was one of the three main winners at Abertay University’s Dare to be Digital contest in 2013, securing one of the ultra-exclusive nominations for the BAFTA Ones to Watch …
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Outplay’s Bubble Blaze Hits 10M Downloads
Outplay's bubble-bursting, dragon saving arcade adventure Bubble Blaze has been downloaded a whopping ten million times since the game launched in November 2012. Released across multiple app store and platforms including the Apple App Store, Amazon, Google Play, Samsung and Nook, Bubble Blaze has been updated on an ongoing basis since its initial release and now …
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Coming Soon – Alien Creeps TD
Dundee's Outplay has a new game in production. Alien Creeps TD is a classic tower defence game, in which players must defend the Earth against ravening hordes of heavily-armed, or possibly heavily-tentacled alien warriors, bent upon destruction and conquest. Earth forces are not unarmed themselves. Players command an arsenal of weaponry, created by mankind for …
OUT NOW – Nightmare Cooperative
Lucky Frame's The Nightmare Cooperative, the collaborative, co-operative, collective rogue-like dungeon crawler, is OUT NOW and we're frankly taking the afternoon off to go and play it. As we gushed when first we heard about the game, it's a turn-based rogue-like, with a unique co-operative twist. As you find new player characters in the dungeon, …