Do you see what we did there? Happy birthday to Dundee mobile powerhouse Tag, which celebrated its fifth birthday this week. Alongside cake, jelly, ice cream and a pin the tail on the tester competition, the studio celebrated - as you would - with a 24 hour #TagHack - in which their development folks split …
YoYo Games – Updates, Releases & The Future Of Games…
YoYo Games, the company behind the popular Game Maker programme, which allows users to create and publish their own games, has been busy lately. Very busy. Technology updates, new games, new partnerships, new team members AND courses teaching Game Maker are all now in progress - putting YoYo very firmly at the front of the …
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Outplay HQ – Dundee – OFFICIAL
When we last heard from Outplay Entertainment - the new social and mobile games publisher, founded by Douglas and Richard Hare - they had launched the company with some ambitious recruitment plans and the best wishes of the Scottish Government ringing in their ears. Then it went a little bit quiet. Well, it turns out …
Biff Bang PowWowNow – Geeking Out For Gear
For the meek, uninformed and socially unaware, yesterday was Geek Pride day - and Towel Day - and of course, the glorious 25th of May. Â In short, it was the geekiest day of the year - apart from May 4th (which causes more enraged punching incidents). To celebrate, PowWowNow, the telephone/web conferencing provider, is running …
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TIGA – Bigger, Better, Faster, More (Awards)
It's been something of a hectic week for everyone's favourite industry body. Â TIGA has been even busier than its normal hectic pace and is spitting out good news like a happiness sprinkler filled with rainbows. The organisation started the week with news that it has been nominated for no less than SEVEN awards in the …
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Cobra Moves Into Slick New Dundee HQ
Faster than the speed of news comes the breaking story that Cobra has moved into rather plush new office premises on Dundee's happening waterfront. Â The company's phone number remains the same, but you can now find Cobra at: Cobra Mobile Limited Unit 23, City Quay Camperdown Street Dundee, DD1 3JA
IGDA – Scottish Chapter
The International Game Developers Association is a global non-profit organisation serving games developers (according to the website). There was, very briefly, a chapter in Scotland, which met a couple of times in Stirling, on the basis that it was equally inconvenient for everyone. Â It didn't last however and while there are a number of individual …
Introducing Drop Catcher & Drop Catcher Laser – new From Fat Bob Games
iPhone users can now download and enjoy TWO brand new games from Edinburgh-based development studio Fat Bob Games. (For those of you who were brought up beneath rocks, or suffered in a non-literary household, Fat Bob wis Oor Wullie's heavier companion, who enjoyed the odd jeely piece). Fat Bob's first releases are two 'twin' games …
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Dundee Game Jam – May 28th 2011
Dundee, city of many discoveries. Â Home to jute, journalism and the all-new Dundee Game Jam. Â Taking place at Abertay University on (Saturday) May 28th, from 09.30 - 17.00. It's open to students, professional game developers, ex game developers, reformed games developers, talented amateurs and anyone who can put together the basic pieces of a videogame. …
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