Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
ProtoPlay, the hugely popular free games festival showcasing the work of graduate games developers returns to Dundee on the 27th and 28th of September. ProtoPlay is the games show for the UK Games Fund’s Tranzfuser competition. Nineteen teams from across the UK will travel to Dundee to get player feedback on the first playable versions …
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The Ada Scotland Festival is back for its fifth consecutive year, running from the 1st - 11th October 2024. The festival champions gender balance in tech and computing, providing inspiration for young people and building a stronger, fairer, more diverse workforce for the future. Volunteers Wanted This year, the team behind the festival would like …
In August 2023 Edinburgh-based Keelworks released its critically-acclaimed debut title, CYGNI: All Guns Blazing, described as: "A frantic, chaotic, visually splendid shooter that plays like it came from the mid-’90s." Scottish Games Network sat down with Meher Kalenderian, the co-founder and CEO of Keelworks to talk about the founding of the studio, the genesis of …
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Scotland's Games Strategy - It's a paradox in Scotland that the games sector is simultaneously a very high-profile success story and at the same time, nearly unknown, The major global franchises, including Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft and Red Dead Redemption, or legacy hits such as Lemmings are the 'go to' titles whenever anyone in the …
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Big news from the games world as Esports Scotland merges with eRena Sports, a company spearheaded by David Hamilton, the co-founder of Digital Goldfish and Executive Vice President of Ninja Kiwi. The expanded entity, operating under the eRena Sports brand, aims to establish a dominant presence in both grassroots and professional esports in Scotland and …
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Uncover a Unique Story About Saying Farewell Farewell North, is the beautiful debut game from Edinburgh-based independent developer Kyle Banks is OUT NOW for PC (via Steam), Nintendo Switch and Xbox. The game is an open-world journey where you play as a border collie on an adventure with his owner through the Scottish Highlands. Players …
Reforged Studios, a new publisher founded by Scottish videogames veterans, has today revealed its first two acquisitions Ground Shatter and Glasgow-based Extra Mile Studios, with others to be announced later in the year. Reforged Studios is a new breed of hybrid developer/publisher that empowers the studios it acquires to continue crafting great games whilst adding …
Scotland’s Biggest Games Event Will Return In 2025 With An All New Programme Of Excellence And Awesome Scottish Games Week, the largest B2B videogames event in Scotland, is hitting <PAUSE> for 2024, returning in October 2025 with a larger, more diverse programme of events supporting the whole videogames ecosystem. Brian Baglow, the founder and director …
Hunted Cow, the Elgin-based games studio behind titles such as Fallen Sword, Eldevin and more recently Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest and Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers has been profiled in the Press & Journal. Highlighting the studio's growth and success - 21 years old, with a headcount of 43(ish), Hunted Cow has produced browser-based MMO …
It may seem strange to kick off the creation of a national strategy for games with a question as simple as 'What are games - where do we fit?" but these are fundamental and critical to making sure games are recognised, understood and supported more effectively moving forward. Before we dive into the data around …
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