Have a very Happy Christmas, readers. We'll be posting over the holidays, but would like to thank you all for flying Scottishgames.net in 2011 and look forward to your ongoing patronage in 2012. Till then have a lovely holiday, complete with presents, mince pies and much love. Brian...
GTA IV Hits 22M Sales – Series Now At 114M In Total
If you were in any doubt whatsoever, that the Grand Theft Auto games are really quite popular, the latest sales figures should clear that right up. GamaSutra reports that in a presentation to a financial conference yesterday, Take 2's Strauss Zelnick revealed the lifetime sales for a number of the company's leading franchises. The most …
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Doing Good, Caring For Kids, Playing Games – So You Don’t Have To…
Long time friend of Scottishgames, talented artist, banner contributor and all round good egg Sarah Morris is putting her life on the line to play 24 hours of gaming - non-stop - to raise money for the Royal Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh. As part of the Extra Life charity, Sarah is promising to play …
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Storm In A Teacup – New From Cobra
Storm In A Teacup, the latest title from Cobra is now live on the Apple App Store. A physics-based platformer, the game challenges users to 'explore amazing, dream-like worlds. Solve puzzles, avoid pitfalls and beat the bad guys'. The game has just been updated, adding 10 new bonus levels, a brand new Challenge mode, customisation …
Introducing – Deep Pixel
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a new company to the Scottishgames family. Deep Pixel is an independent studio, based in the glamorous west end of Glasgow. The company's first project is a genuine, honest-to-goodness book. Unity 3 Blueprints is a guide to the hugely popular Unity technology, being used by developers and studios worldwide. It …
Reloaded Productions Opens Its Doors
The team behind the forthcoming relaunch of APB: Reloaded has set up shop in central Edinburgh (in the former VIS offices we hear). Reloaded Productions is headed by Michael Boniface, who worked on the game as part of the team at Realtime Worlds. APB was acquired by Gamesfirst.com in early 2011 and is being remodelled into …
Tag Releases First Footage From Car Jack Streets 2
Tag Games MD Paul Farley took a break from the madness of GDC earlier this week to link to footage from the sequel to the company's 2009 hit, Car Jack Streets. Showing a high speed chase through city streets and countryside, the game is a step away from the 2-dimensional design of the original, showing …
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YoYo Games – New Game Releases (& Recruiting)
YoYo Games has not been resting on it's laurels at the start of 2011. Following a busy release schedule in 2010, the company has just announced two new games for the iPhone/iPad... Prison Ball is a brand new twist on the classic 'block breaker' type game, set in the depths of a state penitentiary(?) Offering …
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2010 a review in NUMBERS!
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That's about …
Artist In Residence 002 – Jon Gill
This week's subtly menacing Scottishgames banner comes from Mr Jon Gill, the brains behind Superfly - the Dundee-based project which puts art on the streets - and more recently organised and ran the NEoN Knights competition. Using artwork from NEoN Knights, including a presumably live QR code, the week's banner reflects the 'epic quest' nature …