News has reached us that Guerilla Tea is challenging Hunted Cow's position as the country's most prolific developer. The company's next release will be something called Incandescence - and it sounds... very different. Guerilla Tea's press release (yes, the wrote a press release and sent it to us - for a game which is STILL …
Games = 85% Of The World’s Top Grossing Apps
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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OUT NOW Free The Network
The interactive adventurers at Pixel Blimp in Dundee are celebrating the launch of their latest title, Free The Network. It's an endless runner, which combines the ball-bearing-based blitzkrieg of Impossible Road, with the high-speed pixel perfect precision of Super Hexagon. Players must guide their mystical orb of righteous wonder through a flat-coloured landscape populated solely …
Minecraft Sells 54M Copies – Consoles Lead The Way…
Another week, another post about Minecraft achieving mind-blowing success and creating ongoing joy. Following the awards, the number one slots, mapping the whole of Denmark (really) and the sales, oh so many sales, comes news that Minecraft, continues to confound the critics with... even more sales and success. The big news this time round is …
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UNITY Game Developer Competition Call For Entries
Do you have a game on (or coming to) the Windows Store, or Windows Phone Store? Did you build it in Unity? Then you could be eligible to enter the UNITY game developer Windows competition. There are prizes of $50,000, $30,000 and $10,000 on offer, with games being judged on quality (50%), originality and creativity (30%) …
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Coming Soon – Nightmare Cooperative
Let's make this very clear, Roguelike games are brilliant. Dungeon crawlers with nasty monsters, chests of sparkling treasure, magic spells, multiple levels of peril and unexpected frequent death are some of the finest experiences which video games has to offer. We think.Though we are experts, so that's pretty much a professional opinion. Roguelikes have been …
Announcing the noPILLS Game Jam
Like the wider industry, game jams are evolving. A number of jams, hacks and codeathons in the last few years have moved beyond the idea of merely creating content in a ridiculously short space of time and have instead focused on using data in new ways, or crowd-sourcing news ideas to help solve specific issues. The …
OUT NOW – Slap Sticker
Glasgow's WeeWorld may often be overlooked as a games studio, despite having released around 16 games and apps for iOS and the company's online social network having well over 60,000,000 registered users. WeeWorld's latest release is SlapSticker. Think of it as an augmented reality photo editing app. You can customise and add fun elements to …
Out Now – See Inside Guerilla Tea’s MIND
Maintaining their breakneck pace for the year, Dundee's Guerilla Tea has released another new and original title for multiple devices. Mind is a brain training game, created to give your synapses, neurons and ganglia the equivalent of a 60 x minute workout, followed by a refreshing shower and a whole food smoothie. The game features three …
OUT NOW – Crystal Reign
Crystal Reign is the latest release from Elgin interactive powerhouse Hunted Cow. Created by Dundee's Criss Cross Games, Crystal Reign is a literal tower defence title in which players must build and defend their tower from swarms of armed enemies. Players must build their tower using different offensive and defensive layers to help survive and destroy swarms …