This Week In Stats

Top Posts (the past week) Company Directory554 views JOBS146 views Richard LeMarchand Leads ProtoPlay Line Up130 views This Weeks Stats128 views Scotland’s Computer Games Journal Acquired By Springer75 views Game Joins GES As Retail Partner63 views Coming Soon – Pixel Raiders54 views Versus Scotland Bringing eSports Smackdown To GES49 views

OUT NOW – Gridlock For Windows And Mac OSX

Ladies and gentlemen, the Ludometrics team have dropped that ghetto blaster and are back once again like the renegade dancers you know them to be and are kicking it proper old school with their latest release: Gridlock. Previously available as a limited edition 7" on the OUYA and GameStick micro consoles, Gridlock has now dropped like …

Saddle Up – Eldevin Meet Mounts

Eldevin, everyone's favourite free-to-play, Elgin-crafted, browser-based, but-now-desktop-too MMORPG, has been updated (release 1.17) and now, adventurers, warriors and players around the world will be able to enjoy the delights, comfort and speed  of their own personal mount. Think 'horsey' but more eclectic and with a magic twist. So, magic carpets, wings, rotors, plasma disks and …

Eldevin Makes Leap From Browser To Desktop (Over LAVA!)

Eldevin, Hunted Cow's officially EPIC Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) has received a new update (1.16), adding an evil wizard's cornucopia of new content and bringing the game to computer desktops for the first time. Since it was released in December 2013, Eldevin has been accessible and playable through web browsers. Now Hunted Cow has created a …

OUT NOW – Peter Rabbit, New From Chunk

Glasgow's Chunk has created a great reputation for building games which tie into television programmes and specifically those for kids. The company has just released a new title, based on one of the world's most beloved children's licenses, Peter Rabbit. The flash-based game is aimed at 4-6 year olds, and was commissioned by CBeebies to go …

OUT NOW: Avatar Runner And Mashapocalypse

One of Scotland's most prolific, yet relatively unknown developers is Richard Adams, aka Oxygen Addict. He has released over twenty titles, covering a wide range of genres and platforms, from the hedgehog-based adventure of The Legendary Tales Of The Heroic Dan McSpikerton, to Sick Kids Save Point: Hospital Quest, created to support the games-based charity. Now …

OUT NOW – Gravity Games

Scottish independent game developer Neil Moody has just released a series of PC/Mac games based around the the concept of 'gravity'. There are seven game and two 'meta games' in the pack, all local multiplayer, designed for 2-4 players. Neil created the games for the makega.me 'series' pageant, which challenged developers to create several linked …

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 …

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%) …

Solar Flux For Fewer Bucks

It's your soaraway summer Steam sale! You're spending money on games you'll never play and loving every second of it. So why not support one of your local studios and pick up Firebrand's Solar Flux for fewer bucks than normal... It's gorgeous. You collect plasma and fire it into the heart of a dying sun …