Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
APB inspires mixed emotions within the games industry. Some people get misty-eyed and reminisce about what might have been. Some people get angry about the the fact the game never achieved its full potential. To many the game is simply a vague memory, of a title from years back, which wasn't very good. The games media …
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Edinburgh's FanDuel, the fantasy sports betting company has raised $11M of investment from a variety of venture capital funds including Scotland's Pentech and Comcast Ventures, the VC affiliate of Comcast Corporation). Other participants were existing investors , including Piton Capital, Bullpen Capital and Richard Koch. The company plans to use the new funding to increase …
Hunted Cow has achieved a great deal since the company was founded back in 2003. The company has launched a variety of online massively multiplayer gamers including Fallen Sword and Gothador. They've tried pioneered new business models, such as free-to-play gaming, years before the whole idea of freemium reached the mainstream games sector and they've …
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Denki Blocks! - the legendary game of yore. Multiple award winner, multiple platform encompasser and ultimate expression of sliding sticky blocks around a variety of environments in order to get them to bond in interesting shapes, has never really been away. It lives in the hearts of gamers everywhere and has untold legions of fans, …
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Tsumanga is a brand new game studio based in Glasgow. The company has been founded by Graeme Harvey and Elias Moubayed formerly of Huzutech. Tsumanga is focused on the creation of social and online massively-multiplayer games aimed at a younger audience of kids, tweens and teens. The company has signed a deal with Italy's Rainbow …
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Rounding up the first week back at work in 2013, we have two stories highlighting the way the global video games market has changed - and how it promises to continue changing in 2013... First up, Minecraft. Every reader should, by now, be familiar with Mojang's LEGO-em-up. A combination of virtual world builder, role playing …
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We're always delighted to hear from new companies working in and around the games sector here in Scotland. We're pretty well in terms of developers. At the last count - and with another couple still to be added to the site, we have 86 development studios in the country. Today's Introducing is different. We were …
Cobra's WWII-themed iBomber series encompasses top-down destruct-em-up games, tower defence games and more recently, a dual-stick shooter. The games are now in limited beta on iOS, PC and Mac, through Valve's digital distribution service Steam. However, not all PC users have been able to play and enjoy the games, since they were not available for …
Never a company to rest upon its day-glo yellow bubble wrap laurels, to experience the gleeful popping noise, Denki has been busy. The company has today released its latest title, WORD QUEST, available to play through a web browser near you, NOW. Word Quest is a bold new adventure into the wicked wizardly world of …
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If, like your editor, you replied, 'Yes, George Clooney, though he's greyer, less stylish, and knows way less about the games industry in Scotland," you win a lovely sweater. If however, you wondered who's like you and indeed, why so many of them are dead, then the chances are you're the target audience for the …