Glasgow Indie Games Fest 2025: Submit Your Game, Get Your Tickets

Glasgow Indie Games Fest 2025 Logo

The Glasgow Indie Games Fest 2025 takes place on August 9 at the Barras Art & Design venue. Developers are now invited to submit their games - and tickets for the event are going quickly. The festival prides itself on featuring: "the most interesting, the most moving and the most unconventional games from Scotland and …

OUT NOW: Football Fans Call The Shots In Crowd Legends

Crowd Legends: Football Logo

The first game from Scotland's 532 Design Football managers beware! The fans are taking charge of the footie in Crowd Legends: Football, the first game from Dundee-based 532 Design. The game - available from the Apple App Store and Google Play - pits football lovers around the world against each other in daily matches, putting …

Scotland’s Games Strategy: Industry Consultation Drop In Sessions

Scotland's Games Action Plan

The second version of Scotland's Games Action Plan is open for industry consultation. To ensure that every participant has the opportunity to ask questions, provide feedback and discuss the recommendations, I've created a series of eight online drop-in sessions to speak directly to the games ecosystem. The drop-in sessions are open to everyone working in …

PHASE 2025: Scotland’s Newest Games Event Ignites Murrayfield Stadium!

PHASE 2025 Logo - Scottish Schools Rocket League Championship

PHASE to Ignite Murrayfield with Epic Games Festival in 2025 Edinburgh, Scotland – Murrayfield Stadium is set to transform into a gamer's paradise as PHASE 2025, a brand-new three-day games festival, makes its highly anticipated debut on September 26th, 27th, and 28th, 2025. Promising to be far more than another industry event, PHASE 2025 aims …

Moray Game Jam 2025 – Applications Open Now

Moray Game Jam 2025 - Promo

Applications are now open for the Moray Game Jam 2025. MGJ is almost certainly the UK's most northerly game jam and is officially, the friendliest and most fun. This year's jam takes place at the University of the Highlands and Islands Moray College in Elgin from March 7th - 9th 2025. Competing teams will have …

Pocket Sized Hands Bolsters Board with Industry Veteran Jim Woods

Jim Woods portrait - Join Pocket Sized Hands Board

Pocket Sized Hands, the award-winning Dundee-based game development studio, has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of industry veteran Jim Woods as a non-executive director. Woods brings a wealth of experience from renowned studios such as SEGA, Supermassive Games, and Sumo Digital, where he most recently served as Studio Director. He was also part …

Scottish Marketing Expert Neonhive Joins The CULT

CULT Games Acquires Neonhive

CULT Games, the independent game publisher has acquired Neonhive, the leading Scottish games marketing agency with Neonhive founder Korina Abbott becoming Chief Operating Officer of the company, alongside CEO Helen Burnhill. Neonhive, known for its innovative marketing campaigns and strong industry connections, has collaborated with a wide range of developers, from independent studios to AAA …

OUT NOW: Death Of The Reprobate – Rebelaisian, Iconoclastic, Funny As F**k

Death of the Reprobate screen shot

Scottish game developer Joe Richardson is very tired, but is extremely proud to finally announce the launch of Death of the Reprobate, the standalone conclusion to the hilarious Immortal John Triptych, on Steam (for PC & Mac). Death of the Reprobate follows on from Richardson’s previous titles, Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary, …

OUT NOW: The Protagonish – New From College Fun Games

The Protagonish Title Screen

Debut Title From Studio Lets Players Control The NPCs, Not The Hero Edinburgh-based College Fun Games has released its first game, The Protagonish, a self-funded, self-published, bite-sized, hand-crafted point-and-click adventure game, with a grappling hook and dad jokes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RErXIvtOskU The Protagonish doesn’t feature Sir Sandford, a fearless, feckless knight on an epic quest to defeat …

Develop: North Conference 2024 in Liverpool

Develop: North Liverpool

Develop, the UK's most popular game developer event game development conference is leaving its Brighton home for a one-day event, Develop: North, which takes place in Liverpool. Develop: North takes place on November 14, 2024, at The Spine in Liverpool. Develop has become a mainstay on the UK game industry calendar and takes place in …