Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The Team at Play2Improve has been hard at work on FPS Trainer since the innovative training and coaching service for First-Person-Shooter games was announced in late 2010. Â The response to the initial press release was very positive. Â So much so that the hosts of the original website, immediately collapsed under the tsunami of visitors. Â As …
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It's always a pleasure to hear from a new development studio. Â Pocket Starship is a start-up, based in Edinburgh, which has just released Rotor, its first game for the Xbox Live Arcade Indie channel. When pressed by Scottishgames for a bit of background, founders Nick and Richard told us: "We're a small (but perfectly formed) …
Last week's viral video hit - in the games world at least - was the gripping trailer for Deep Silver's forthcoming zombie survival game, Dead Island. Over the weekend we received confirmation from our friends at Axis Animation in Glasgow that they are the company behind the animation. Directed by Axis owner and director, Stuart …
Games Analytics is a start-up company, founded by Chris Wright and Tim Christian. The company is a 'data-mining and monetization company, headquartered in Edinburgh, serving the online video games industry'. Headquartered in Edinburgh, the company has just opened a dedicated US office, appointing industry veteran and co-founder of Activision Alan Miller as director of North …
3MRT's Inquizitor range of apps, which teach stadard and GCSE subjects such as English, French, Biology, Maths and Physics hit the front page of the Apple App Store earlier this week, as one of the several 'Apps of the week', chosen by the App store staff. Inquizitor uses games technology and game-like experience to help …
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YoYo Games has not been resting on it's laurels at the start of 2011. Following a busy release schedule in 2010, the company has just announced two new games for the iPhone/iPad... Prison Ball is a brand new twist on the classic 'block breaker' type game, set in the depths of a state penitentiary(?)  Offering …
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UPDATED - Now with extra added news coverage! (See below) It's actually twenty years ago come Monday, the 14th, but LEMMINGS, one of the first truly international superstar smashes of the home computer era is 20 years old. Created, nurtured, ported and developed in Dundee by DMA Design back in 1991, the game has gone …
Outplay Entertainment, a new videogames publisher focusing on social networks and smartphones launched today. The company will be headquartered in Dundee, with details of premises expected within the next several weeks. Outplay is already actively recruiting and is working with Glasgow gaming recruitment experts Specialmove to find talented, passionate and enthusiastic people to join them. …
Readers of this blog, as clever and pretty as they undoubtedly are, may not have come across the Consolarium before. Â Describing itself as the 'Scottish Centre For Games & Learning', the Consolarium uses commercially available games - hardware and titles - within classrooms. Â Side stepping the serious games sector and instead looking at how to …
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