Games Analytics is a start-up company, founded by Chris Wright and Tim Christian. The company is a 'data-mining and monetization company, headquartered in Edinburgh, serving the online video games industry'. Headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has just opened a dedicated US office, appointing industry veteran and co-founder of Activision Alan Miller as director of North …
Outplay – New Games Publisher Launches
Outplay Entertainment, a new videogames publisher focusing on social networks and smartphones launched today. The company will be headquartered in Dundee, with details of premises expected within the next several weeks. Outplay is already actively recruiting and is working with Glasgow gaming recruitment experts Specialmove to find talented, passionate and enthusiastic people to join them. …
Tiger Games Releases Denki Blocks! For PSP In Europe
Tiger Games, the development studio created by Jamie Bryan (DMA, VIS, Tag) and Graeme Laws (DMA, DC, Denki and many more as a freelance) has just released a brand new version of Denki Blocks! for PSP through the PlayStation network in Europe. Promising over a hundred new levels, revised and refined controls, unlockable secrets and …
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FPS Trainer Heading For First 10,000 Users
Online games coaching FPS Trainer is heading for 10,000 users, just in time for its live tournament at the end of this week, at the Glasgow arm of the Global Games Jam (you may have noticed their lovely banner gracing the site this week...) The company is offering a prize for the 10,000th registered use, …
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Tealy & Orangey – dual control puzzle fun – PLAY IT
Tealy & Orangey is a brand new online game from MainlyAboutGames.co.uk, aka Freakyzoid, aka Mr Anthony Gowland. Written in about seven days, as a bit of an exercise to practice Flash and Flixel, Tealy and Orangey is a platformer with a twist. You control two blobs - one teal and one orange (those colours are …
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Games Consortium – Developer Driven Publisher
The meeting which took place at the DCA in Dundee on Friday, drew in representatives from many of Scotland's game studios. Organised by NESTA, the meeting outlined the concept for the creation of a new games publisher, in which a number of developers have equity. NESTA itself would 'prime the pump' with a significant injection …
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Hunted Cow Profiled In Aberdeen Press & Journal
You might not have come across Hunted Cow before now. The studio is based up in the frozen north of Elgin and works mainly upon browser-based MMO games, including Fallen Sword, SigmaStorm II and Gothador. The company recently picked up an exporter of the year award from the Moray Chamber of Commerce and has now …
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APB Reloaded – Closed Beta Signup Now Open
As the headline makes entirely clear, the closed beta period for APB: Reloaded is now open for players to sign up. Submit an e-mail to Gamer's First and sign up for a player account and you'll be considered for the beta. According to the APB Reloaded blog: So far we have received about 20,000 emails …
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2010 a review in NUMBERS!
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That's about …
Google Launches App Store For Chrome
With a growing number of game developers now focusing on the new App markets, today's announcement for Google could represent a new way to enter the online and browser-based market for many of Scotland's mobile and smartphone studios. Google's Chrome browser has quietly been getting on with impressing people over the last several months. It's …