2014 was a strange year for the Scottish games industry. The number of companies in the country shrank slightly (to around 85) and the number of games released also decreased to around the same number - 85, down from 2013's 93 releases. The diversity of the releases increased however, from the next generation versions of …
OUT NOW – Bloons Monkey City
If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It's a philosophical imponderable of no small magnitude, which has kept the finest minds of the human race occupied for centuries. It at once asks questions about the participation of an observer and the very nature …
OUT NOW – Dueling Wizards
Dueling Wizards is the latest release from Scotland's Cog Mobile. Based in Fife, the company develops apps and games for commercial partners. Dueling Wizards however is an original new title, which puts the player into the curly toed shoes of a hard-bitten, spell-slinging sorcerer, facing off against wicked wizards and assorted enchanted enemies. Players must …
OUT NOW – Quick Slide
Dundee's Stand Out Games has released its latest title, Quickslide for Android devices. The game offers a new spin on the classic Christmas-cracker-em-up slidey squares type puzzle. You know the ones. It's a plastic square which contains 4 x 4 tiles upon which is printed a picture of a seasonal or humorous nature. Cunningly, one …
OUT NOW – Mystery Match
The team at Outplay has released its latest title, Mystery Match. It's, surprisingly enough, a match three game, in which players must make chains of three or more jewels, to remove them from the playing area. Unlike the 800lb Gorilla of sweet-toothed all consuming Candy Crush, Mystery Match has a far more fascinating theme. Set …
GTA V Is The UK’s Best-Selling Game, Like, EVER
Since GTA V came out last September, it's done rather well. Seven Guinness records broken. Enormous first day sales. A billion dollars generated in the first three days and apparently making more money than the entire global music industry in its first month. This was then complemented with a range of awards, trophies, prizes and …
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Introducing QUIJA
QUIJA READING GAMES is a twenty-page perzine created by Mitch Alexander that gives a brief insight into one person's perspective on the possible intersections of non-heterosexual+noncisgender life and games, discussing and exploring how game design, criticism, theory and play can be impacted by queer issues and vice versa. QUIJA READING GAMES is intended for any …
OUT NOW – Smash Doors
Opportunity. That's what comes a knocking at your door. You can seize fortune by the forelock or look a gift horse in the mouth, but not if it comes bearing gifts. How often have you heard, or used, or been needlessly confused by any of the above expressions? If you've anything like us, then it's …
Go Boldly – Distant Star: Revenant Fleet OUT NOW
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet is a brand new release from Edinburgh's Blazing Griffin. It is a real-time, space-strategy game for PC, featuring fleet-based combat, a dynamically generated galaxy, and an evolving narrative that creates a different experience every time the game is played. The company is positioning the game as a rogue-like meets strategy experience. …
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Hunted Cow Unleashes Hell
Hunted Cow are back. After a fallow period of, oooooh, almost a fortnight, since the company's last release (Eldevin on Steam), Scotland's hardest working development studio is back with a brand new adventure. HELL is a turn-based fantasy game in which the players will take command of both factions in this epic confrontation between the …