It's been reported across all of the major games industry websites that Dundee's Cohort Studios is to close down, with all staff being laid off. All 25 members of staff have been given redundancy notices and the company is starting to wind down.  This is despite the recent announcement of Cohort's first original title for PSN …
New Release – WarPath – Multiplayer iPad Tank Combat From Whisky Biscuit
What better way to pick up after an unexpected break than to highlight a new game - and a new company - in one glorious update? Please welcome WarPath, the inaugural game from Elgin-based Whisky Biscuit. Â It's a turn-based, top-down iPad game, for up to four players. Â Plan moves, position turrets, drop mines and try …
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Notes From The Underground…
We'd like to apologise to our loyal readers for the... slight gap in updates over the last couple of weeks. Â Sadly your editorial had to contend with a number of lowly engineering issues and problems of a paranormal nature and this led to several delays in updates. However, please be assured that service is now …
Guest Editorial: +AsDesigned Games – From There To Here
+AsDesigned Games was formed in 2010 by several former Realtime Worlds employees; the small team was formed after the well publicised and unfortunate demise of the Dundee developer. The +ADG team consisted of a few former QA testers who simply wanted to create some fun games and boost their portfolios/CVs at the same time. After …
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Cobra Launches iBomber Defence On Mac Store
Dundee's Cobra launched a tower defense (yes, with the American spelling) title in its hugely successful iBomber franchise, for the iPhone and iPad in late 2010, where it quickly proved just as popular as its predecessors. iBomber Defense offers all of the classic elements of a tower defense game.  Players must place different types of weapon …
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CONPULSION – Games Con, Edinburgh, This Weekend
Direct from Scottishgames partner SQUARE-GO.COM: Conpulsion is Scotland's premier games convention and has been running under that name for the past 15 years but has existed in various forms for the past 25, acting as a community hub for Scottish gamers and visitors from across the world. At its roots, Conpulsion is predominately concerned with …
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Introducing Euphonious
Euphonious is a new company, headquartered in Dundee, created by industry veteran and long-time audio geek Raymond Usher, formerly of Realtime Worlds, Rockstar North and DMA Design. Euphonious is offering a comprehensive range of audio services to digital, broadcast, animation and of course, interactive companies. From sound effect creation to music composition, licensing, direction and …
Dare To Be Documentary Airs This Weekend
At last year's Dare to be Digital competition and ProtoPlay event, visitors and competitors were carefully followed by a dedicated camera crew from HeadLight Scotland, who were on site to carefully record and capture the whole experience. Now, all of their hard work can be seen on national TV, when the three-part series runs on …
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 …
Nicholas Lovell – Self-Publishing Masterclass – Glasgow
The games industry is changing and evolving very rapidly right now. New platforms, new routes to market, new business models, new consumers all mean new opportunities for development studios. Finding new ways of doing business, or identifying these new opportunities can be difficult, when the industry is changing around you, which can leave some developers …
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