[Guest Editorial] My First Trip To NEoN
We’re delighted to present the first in a series of guest editorials from people within the games and interactive industries. Kim Blake is the education liason manager for Blitz Games (and a fellow of the …
Ludometrics Partners With Comedy Unit For First iPhone Title
Ludometrics, the company founded by Dave Thomson (Denki, Slam, Games Kitchen) earlier in 2010 has released its first title – an iPhone app based on the Comedy Unit’s TV series, Gary: Tank Commander. Featuring a …
Axis Animation Created ‘Under Siege’ Trailer Hits The Internet
The trailer for the Seed Studios’ new PlayStation 3 realtime strategy game, Under Siege, was released online earlier this week. Created by Glasgow-based Axis Animation, the trailer was co-directed by Wiek Luijken and Dana Dorian. …
NESTA To Establish Developer-Led Games Publisher
NESTA – the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts has called on UK game developers to contribute to the creation of a developer-driven (and owned) publisher, to help ensure the protect the future …
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 …
Cobra Launches iBomber Defense
Dundee’s Cobra Mobile has announced the latest title in its popular iBomber franchise. iBomber Defense for the iPhone/iPad has been published in conjunction with mobile publisher Chillingo. iBomber Defense takes the franchise in a new …
New APB Owner Considering Scotland For European HQ?
The ongoing saga of APB continues, with GamersFirst telling GamesIndustry.biz they may well consider creating a European HQ and Scotland is one of the locations they’re looking at: In the event that a number of …
How Politics Works (Episode #4 in an ongoing series)
1. Pick violent tragedy which occurred somewhere in the world. 2. Pick random game which features weapon(s) 3. Blame game for tragedy 4. Repeat
APB Sale To Pay Outstanding Wage Claims + Interview With New Owner
Last week’s sale of APB to K2 Network, will allow Begbies-Tryanor, the administrator of Realtime Worlds to settle all outstanding wage and holiday pay claims, according to the latest report from GamesIndustry.biz. Paul Dounis from …
Mr Bump Trips Onto The iPhone App Store
Mr Bump, the first title from Digital Goldfish‘s deal with Chorion, to bring the classic kids TV license Mr Men to Apple’s AppStore is now live. Mr Bump has not only launched on the AppStore, …