Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
According to Glasgow's Evening Times, a team of students from Glasgow Caledonian University are close to signing a deal for their first game - Ludi Gladiatorium - with a major publisher. Project leader Daniel Sneddon has already pitched the, as yet unfinished game, to an unnamed publisher in San Francisco, with another Hong Kong based …
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Rockstar is revered as one of the world's most fashionable games companies. The publishing giant's latest line of desktop couture reflects this, with a focus on the fabrics of Scotland. Visitors to the Rockstar website can now decorate their desktops with the iconic Rockstar logo bedecked in a variety of fetching textiles including Argyle (as …
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Games creators and publishers are becoming increasingly comfortable with the idea of using talent from outside 'the industry'. Professional writers and musicians are now an established part of the development process - and thanks to titles such as L.A. Noire, stage and screen actors are becoming just as valued. However, the idea of using a …
Tern TV, although best known as a TV production company, has a well established and pioneering digital group. The company's latest venture into the interactive world was recently picked up by Kotaku, who looked at Tern's new Digital Adaptations project. Digital Adaptations takes classic literary works and reimagines them within a virtual environment. Turning books into …
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YoYo Games has launched its brand new - and very slick - website. The new site outlines all of the company's activities, from the hugely popular Game Maker app, through to the online community of game makers and games, as well as the more recent publishing arm. YoYo has created a greal deal of momentum …
Super Snake HD, YoYo Games latest mobile release is out now on the Apple and Android App markets. Created by Mark Overmars and Jochem Schut, SSHD is exclusive to YoYo Games. Based, obviously, on the classic Snake (arguably the world's most played game, thanks to its presence on almost every Nokia handset for over ten …
YoYo Games, the company behind the popular Game Maker programme, which allows users to create and publish their own games, has been busy lately. Very busy. Technology updates, new games, new partnerships, new team members AND courses teaching Game Maker are all now in progress - putting YoYo very firmly at the front of the …
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When we last heard from Outplay Entertainment - the new social and mobile games publisher, founded by Douglas and Richard Hare - they had launched the company with some ambitious recruitment plans and the best wishes of the Scottish Government ringing in their ears. Then it went a little bit quiet. Well, it turns out …
It's been something of a hectic week for everyone's favourite industry body. TIGA has been even busier than its normal hectic pace and is spitting out good news like a happiness sprinkler filled with rainbows. The organisation started the week with news that it has been nominated for no less than SEVEN awards in the …
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iPhone users can now download and enjoy TWO brand new games from Edinburgh-based development studio Fat Bob Games. (For those of you who were brought up beneath rocks, or suffered in a non-literary household, Fat Bob wis Oor Wullie's heavier companion, who enjoyed the odd jeely piece). Fat Bob's first releases are two 'twin' games …
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