Scottish Games Jam – Coming Soon

2011 promises to be quite the creative wonderland for game designers and developers.  Anything which encourages new talent, new games and more innovation gets our whole-hearted support. The first development-related event of 2011 is rapidly heading our way.  The 28th of January marks the start of this year's Global Games Jam - a worldwide game …

2010 – A Year In Gaming

UPDATED - Now includes Firebrand and Triple B Games... “Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the rest of the play?” Any review of the games and gaming sector in Scotland in 2010 is going to be a little like reviewing the Titanic's first cruise. No matter how impeccable the service, or exquisite the canapes, …

New Year, New Banner, New Artist

Happy 2011 readers.  We hope you all had a fun holiday season, with cake, presents, alcohol (where permitted), tiny foolish hats and an occasional cracker. To celebrate the start of a fresh, lithe, hopeful new year, we'd like to present you with a brand new banner, reflecting the best parts of the new year in …

2010 a review in NUMBERS!

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That's about …

Chunk Snowball – Out Now For iPhone And iPod

Chucking snowballs used to be considered good, healthy fun.  Wrap the kids up warm, kick them outside and as long as nothing serious got broken, it was a big win all round.  Now, however, you get Daily Mail complaining, Police handing out ASBOs like they're crackers and children as young as two being banged-up for …

Artist In Residence – Mr Hogarth (Redux)

The jolliest little elf in Santa's workshop has come through for your favourite Scottish gaming resource once more.  Stewart 'Stu' Hogarth is back once again - like a renegade dancer (not the reindeer) and is once more keeping it defiantly old school. Look upon the C64-inspired banner loveliness and send your Christmas wishes Stewart's way, …

Tag’s Doctor Who: The Mazes Of Time Now Live On Apple App Store

Doctor Who's first mobile gaming adventure - the Mazes Of Time - created by Tag Games, is now available for iPhone and iPad in the Apple App Store. In his very first mobile game outing the Doctor and his sidekick Amy Pond must rescue a family abducted from deep space by the Daleks. As you’d …

Professor Frag Is IN!

Play2Improve, the company behind FPS Trainer, the new online service which teaches gamers to compete more effectively in online FPS games, is holding it's public world premiere on MONDAY 20th December, at HMV's Gamerbase on Princes Street in Edinburgh... FPS Trainer, the brand new online service which combines sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based coaching technology with …

YoYo Games Releases Teka Teki

Teka Teki, the latest release from YoYo Games promises a Tetris-style puzzle game in which players have to place food tiles in groups so that the adjacent animal tiles can scoff them in as large a group as possible.  The larger the groups, the bigger the combos. If you're not convinced, there's a Lite version, …

Denki Announces Big Cup Cricket, Pronounces It ‘++Awesome’

The folks at Denki have been very quiet over the last few months.  Many saw this as proof positive that the company was sub-contracted to Santa, making toys and games for the good boys and girls of the world.  Other, less charitable souls, claimed it was because the company was trying to suppress new that …