Over in Dundee's famous Discovery Point, the first International AppConference and AppJam are taking place. The conference has a full line-up of speakers across all the various app platforms and covering everything from games, to lawyers, publishers and possibly even a platform owner (one of which per day may keep a doctor away - the …
FPS Trainer – New Company Offering ‘Online Games Coaching’
Play2Improve is a new company, based within Abertay University, which is focusing on using games technology to help people learn. The company's first project is an online coaching service called FPS Trainer. FPS Trainer offers players of all ability levels the chance to learn the basic skills needed to play First-Person-Shooter games online against other …
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New Xbox Dashboard Marginalising Indie Games?
The update to the Microsoft Xbox dashboard over the last week has caused concern in indie gaming circles. Many developers worried that moving the Indie Games from the Games Store section to the new 'Specialty Shops' - which also includes features such as avatar customisation - is marginalising the emerging indie games market and making …
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Tag Games Invites You To Dinner (And Judges You Harshly)
In a week of frenzied game release activity, Tag Games announced the first title to come through its partnership with Channel 4. Come Dine With Me is the insanely popular cooking programme which challenges four 'normal' members of the public (or occasionally celebrities) to hold dinner parties for each other. The guests then rate their …
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Newsround – Thursday
Another day, another grab-bag of fascinating gaming tidbits from around this social network we call the Internet. Good afternoon and here are today's headlines... GameCity - The UK's most 'idiosyncratic' games festival (it sounds so good we want to cry [GameSetWatch] 4.4 million tablet devices sold in the last quarter alone [Edge Online] Crossover - …
YoYo Games Releases First iPad Game – Maddening
YoYo Games is clearly not a company to rest on its laurels. Following the release of Skydiver Mach II, the company's first iPhone/iPod game at the end of October, YoYo has now released it's first iPad game, Maddening. The App Store is less than forthcoming with the details, but according to the YoYo Games website: …
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Culture Minister Criticises MPs Attitudes Towards Games Business
Ed Vaizey, the UK's Minister for culture, media and sport has attacked MPs general lack of understanding regarding videogames and the industry behind them, reports GamesIndustry.biz. Appearing before the Scottish Affairs Committee, examining the subject of tax breaks for the games industry, Labour MP Ian Davidson remarked that Mr Vaizey "...ought to be concerned about …
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Realtimeworlds – postscript
News surfaced on Twitter earlier today that the domain http://www.realtimeworlds.com has now been acquired and staked out by a domain hosting company. So it seems appropriate to link to an epitaph of the company, which was posted on Eurogamer yesterday: "APB has been a fantastic journey, but unfortunately that journey has come to a premature …
One Week To AppJam And NEoN Goodness – Have YOU Got A Ticket?
There's ONE WEEK to go until the North East of North digital arts festival takes place across much of central Dundee. The whole programme is now complete, confirmed and available to read. You can find the PDF here. The last few weeks have seen the event build up quite a head of steam. Several salons …
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Politicians Disagree Over Tax Breaks For Games – Live On TV…
...complete with basic errors and added Darth Vader. The issue of tax breaks for the games industry refuses to disappear, despite being turned down by Chancellor George Osborne in his first budget, earlier this year. On today's BBC Politics show, shadow minister for international development Gareth Thomas clashed with Liberal MP Tom Brake on whether …
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