YoYo Games – Updates, Releases & The Future Of Games…

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 …

Outplay HQ – Dundee – OFFICIAL

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 …

TIGA – Bigger, Better, Faster, More (Awards)

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. …

Introducing Drop Catcher & Drop Catcher Laser – new From Fat Bob Games

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 …

Dead Island – Created By Axis Animation

Last week’s viral video hit – in the games world at least – was the gripping trailer for Deep Silver’s forthcoming zombie survival game, Dead Island. Over the weekend we received confirmation from our friends …

Introducing Games Analytics

Games Analytics is a start-up company, founded by Chris Wright and Tim Christian.  The company is a ‘data-mining and monetization company, headquartered in Edinburgh, serving the online video games industry’. Headquartered in Edinburgh, the company …

Outplay – New Games Publisher Launches

Outplay Entertainment, a new videogames publisher focusing on social networks and smartphones launched today.  The company will be headquartered in Dundee, with details of premises expected within the next several weeks.  Outplay is already actively …

Games Consortium – Developer Driven Publisher

The meeting which took place at the DCA in Dundee on Friday, drew in representatives from many of Scotland’s game studios. Organised by NESTA, the meeting outlined the concept for the creation of a new …

Games Consortium Meeting – Dundee, Friday 14th January

A quick reminder to game developers out there that this Friday (14th January 2011), NESTA is holding an open meeting to discuss plans to create a consortium to ‘take products direct to market’.  Or to …

Chunk Snowball – Out Now For iPhone And iPod

Chucking snowballs used to be considered good, healthy fun.  Wrap the kids up warm, kick them outside and as long as nothing serious got broken, it was a big win all round.  Now, however, you …