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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Denki Is 11
Despite a fairly rough 2010, Denki, Scotland's smiliest, shiniest games studio has officially hit 11 years old. As is traditional, they made a cake. No word on the presence of Jelly and/or ice cream, but we're fairly sure there would have been games, party hats and twinkles. We'd like to wish Denki many happy returns …
BAFTA Video Games Awards: The Missing Category
Today is the BAFTA Video Games Awards (tune in online at 8.45pm), or BAVGAs if you prefer. I wish all the nominees in all the categories the very best, particularly the Ones to Watch category which is connected to Scotland's very own Dare to be Digital competition. It's great that BAFTA are supporting an industry …
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First Ever Dare Game Hits The App Store
The first videogame, created as part of the Dare to be Digital competition, has launched commercially on the Apple App Store. Sculpty, which was created by Team Tickle as part of the 2010 Dare competition is now available for the iPad. Sculpty is a physics-based platform game, in which players pinch, poke, stretch and sculpt …
New Week, New Banner
If you cast your eyes towards the top of your favourite blog covering the interactive entertainment sector North of the border, you'll see that it has a smashing new banner, featuring two things that every good blog should aspire to, namely, Zombies, samurai swords (and lashings and lashings of red, red krovvy). The latest incarnation …
Game In Scotland, Dundee, Sat 26th March
If you haven't come across the Game In Scotland recruitment fair before, it's fairly simple to explain. Â It's a recruitment fair, for the games industry in Scotland. Â See? Â The clues were all there. It tends to pull in all of the Scottish development studios, from the smallest to the largest, who have stands and accept …
GTA V Rumours Surface As GTA IV Sales Hit 20M
The GTA V rumour mill went up a notch this week, with news that Take Two has arranged a casting call for an as yet undisclosed project, known only by the codename 'Rush'. It's widely surmised that Rush is the next installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise and that the game will be set …
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Welcome To The Dark Side
Ladies and gentlemen, please don't panic, be scared or generally freak out. Â The rather nifty banner we're using this week comes to you courtesy of artist Amr Din (and the letter J and the number 11). Amr takes us in a darker, creepier and more grungy direction which is at odds with some of the …
Tag Releases First Footage From Car Jack Streets 2
Tag Games MD Paul Farley took a break from the madness of GDC earlier this week to link to footage from the sequel to the company's 2009 hit, Car Jack Streets. Showing a high speed chase through city streets and countryside, the game is a step away from the 2-dimensional design of the original, showing …
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