Hutch Games Shares £375 Million With Staff

Hutch Games, which has a Dundee studio, has been purchased by Modern Times Group (MTG) for £375 million, with proceeds being shared with staff.

Mapping Scotland’s Videogames Industry

How many games companies are there in Scotland? 10? 50? 500?

Incredibly, we really don’t know. It looks like we may have lost as many as 65% of studios in the last 5 x years.

So here’s what we’re going to do about it…

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday To Us! 16 years ago this week, the Scottish Games Network was born.

We continue to support and promote everything to do with Scotland’s incredible interactive industries.

Hello World!

10 print “Hello world!”; 20 goto 10 run Nearly three years ago, the Scottish Games Network went into hibernation. There were a couple of reasons: First of all, I had a little boy – and …

Hello World…

The SGN is online after a few days off for some much needed maintenance.

The new look isn’t final. We’re still playing with the theme and the pages and so forth, but we’re live once more.

It’s been a rough few months. Seriously. Lots going on. Not much of it fun. We’ll spill the beans at some point soon. It’s a tale of intrigue and disaster and plain good old-fashioned nastiness

However, the SGN is back and ready to pick up where we left off – making sure the world knows just how creative and cool the games sector in Scotland actually is.

In the meantime,

Brian

It’s Oh So Quiet – Whatever Happened To The Scottish Games Network?

You may have noticed that over the last 18 months, the Scottish Games Network has been… a little quiet. So quiet in fact you’d be forgiven for thinking it was dead. It’s not. I’ve just …

NDCS Workshop 2016

Workshop Summary Recently Guerilla Tea teamed up with the National Deaf Children’s Society and Abertay University to run a game development workshop with a group of deaf children. There were several objectives we wished to achieve during the day. …

Scottish Games Industry Survey – PLEASE READ

The Scottish Games Network, Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise are working together to produce the first ever entirely comprehensive survey of Scotland’s games industry.

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 90,000 times in 2015. If …

Creative Scotland Researching Scotland’s Games Sector

Creative Scotland, the national agency for the arts, screen and creative industries north of the border is launching a campaign to research and understand the country’s video games and interactive sectors more fully. In previous …