Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Hunted Cow has released the first expansion for Eldevin, the company's free-to-play, massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, Eldevin. A Tale Of Sand And Shards is entirely free for players and adds entirely new content to the game, increasing level caps, adding new dungeons and a cornucopia of new weapons, realms and items. Players who log in during the …
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For many developers, their focus is on completing and launching a game. User acquisition is the key. Visibility in a crowded market is the major issue. Once the game is on the market however, unless there's a serious problem, the game can be... easy to ignore. That can be a huge problem. Especially for games utilising free-to-play …
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Ruffian's Game Of Glens is in the final throes of Square Enix's new Collective crowd-sourcing programme. The game is one of three titles which may receive funding and publishing through the Final Fantasy/Tomb Raider publisher. Visitors to the Square Enix website can vote for one of three projects they'd like to see proceed to full …
The all new, totally redesigned and redeveloped XBLGamerhub.com is now LIVE and online. The site - a community for Xbox 360 gamers is one of the largest out there. Since it was launched in 2009, it's grown to include over 16,000 community members, 7000 Twitter followers and 5000 Facebook likes. The site was created by …
A new year, a new record for Minecraft. Gamesindustry reports that the brand new PlayStation 3 version of the game, released just before Christmas 2013 (December 17th to be precise), has already sold over 1 million copies - in about six weeks. Even Mojang themselves seem startled by the game's huge impact, with the company's …
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Crossover Scotland's Inspiration Day was a rare event, a day designed to bring together 'creatives' from a range of disciplines - film & tv, performing arts, literature, music, games and 'other'... It's part of a larger series of events, created by Crossover Labs and The Sheffield Documentary Festival, incorporating residential labs where practitioners from all …
http://vimeo.com/84434371 If you've not come across the term 'Machinima' before, it is far more than a popular YouTube channel. It refers to the process of using commercially available video game engines to create animated films. The word itself was coined by one of the pioneers of the medium, Hugh Hancock, founder of Strange Company and …
VG247's news editor Dave Cook has just published issue number 1 of his new, regular, Scotland-focused editorial, VG247 Scotland, looking at the state of the games industry as it relates to Scotland and including creators, CEOs and experts from Scotland's video games sector. This new issue explores the various distribution channels available to games creators, …
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Scottishgames.net is the only website out there, which will run news and updates from every games-related company in Scotland. Whether you're a developer, a technology company, a freelancer or a part-time team, the site exists to support you and give you visibility and credibility in an increasingly saturated market. To make this work, we need …
Two Scottish game developers now have games up on the Steam Greenlight system - and they need your help. For our non-games industry readers, Steam Greenlight is a new crowd sourcing project on Valve's hugely popular (65 million users worldwide) Steam digital distribution system, which allows gamers to vote for the new games they would …