The Scottish Games Network

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, …

Artist In Residence 001 – Searra Dodds

One of the things we’re planning to keep the new Scottishgames.net looking fresh is a weekly update of the banner at the top of the site.  Anyone is welcome to contribute ideas and artwork for …

Realtime Worlds Asset Auction Halted By Hackers?

The Courier is reporting that the auction of assets from Realtime Worlds has been halted after hackers targeted the auction company’s servers: Over 1000 items were to go under the hammer, including high-spec PCs, LCD …

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Hello world.  Welcome to the all new Scottishgames site.  Your single, central resource for everything happening in, relating to and coming from the industry of making games in Scotland.  Developers, indie studios, universities, supporting organisations …

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