Dundee's Outplay Entertainment has raised a new round of institutional investment worth $5M. Oxford Capital led the new investment, joining Pentech Ventures and the Scottish Investment Bank, which backed the company from its foundation and joined the most recent round of finance. Outplay will use the new investment to invest in the people and resources required …
OUT NOW – Cobi Treasure Deluxe & Numba (Steam)
Cobra, the Dundee-based games studio behind the best-selling iBomber series, is a developer who is taking advantage of the growing number of devices and routes to market these days. The company has released much of its catalogue of content for multiple devices. Not just mobile, but interactive TV boxes and more recently, Steam. Why wouldn't you choose Steam? …
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OUT NOW – Family House, New From Brightsolid
Dundee's Brightsolid, best known as a hosting, cloud and genealogy company has announced the release of it's first game. Family House is a new social game for all ages, based around the player’s own family tree. Set in a large rambling family house, the player’s goal is to build and restore the house itself - with family …
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Minecraft – Doing Quite Well…
That Minecraft game is doing fairly well. It's currently sitting at number one (PlayStation 3) AND two (Xbox 360) in the US charts. In addition, the lovely people at Mojang have released more information about the forthcoming Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita versions of the game - all of course created by the …
Monstrum Gets Alpha Release
Monstrum, the latest release from Dundee's Team Junkfish, has just been released as an 'alpha' or work-in-progress-don't-be-surprised-if-it-changes-quite-a-bit for those of you outside the games sector. This is a system that worked really rather well for Minecraft and allows players to experience the game, provide feedback and builds an audience prior to the game's 'official' release. …
Monstrum – Procedurally Generated Horror – Coming Soon From Team Junkfish
We've been hearing whispers, terrified, strangled whispers coming from Team Junkfish for the last few months. The company's latest title, Monstrum has been under wraps for some time, but now the first information is starting to hit the press and it sounds like something special... Junkfish spoke to VG247's Dave Cook recently, with the first …
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OUT NOW – Civil War 1862 (OSX)
Hunted Cow's has published Hexwar's Civil War: 1862, the prequel to strategy wargame Civil War: 1863, has hit the Mac App Store. Civil War: 1862 features an 8 mission tutorial and 53 detailed missions across 7 campaigns. All missions can be played as both the Union and Confederates (apart from the tutorial). The Mac OSX release includes all …
£30K On Offer In Commonwealth Games Competition
The Glasgow 2014 Digital Sprint is a new competition, launched by Glasgow 2014, which challenges Scotland's digital industries to find new ways to engage with the biggest sporting event in Scotland's history. The brief is simple - yet wide open for original and creative new ideas. Digital Sprint invites entrants to: Create innovative ideas to …
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China Joy – Registration Now Open
Scottish Development International is looking for games companies wishing to attend the 2014 China Joy games event, which takes place in Shanghai from July 31st-August 3rd. SDI is in the process of completing their plans for the stand and presence at the show. The organisation has created an entirely new registration process for signing up to …
OUT NOW: XBL Gamerhub App
XBL Gamerhub is a social network for Xbox Gamers, allowing them to organise online events, find friends, blog, upload images and video and generally make the most of their Xbox gaming experience. The company has pulled in thousands of players from around the world and has already caught Microsoft's eye with it's enthusiastic and unique …