OUT NOW: Strange Sickness

Strange Sickness, the mystery plague adventure game created using data from Aberdeen’s medieval city records, it out now for Windows PC.

Introducing: Firefly Studios – Aberdeen

Introducing: Firefly Studios – The SGN speaks to the Firefly Aberdeen team about the studio behind the Stronghold franchise

5 Games Studios Based in Aberdeen

When you think of the granite city, game development isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. That’s something that happens sixty-odd miles south in Dundee, right? Yes and no, yes Dundee is a hub …

Out Now: Stronghold Warlords

The long running and much beloved Stronghold franchise received a new instalment this week. Stronghold: Warlords lets players command the armies of Asia.

Strange Sickness: Play With The Plague in Medieval Aberdeen

Strange Sickness is a new narrative game, based in medieval Aberdeen, whent he city faced the perils of plague.

It is based upon real historical data from the city’s unique records, which run from 1398 to the present day.

Coming Soon: From The Depths (Seven Years in Early Access, 300K Downloads)

Coming Soon: From The Depths is an astonishingly large-scale and complex new builder/RTS game,using Voxels, which allows players to build sophisticated weapons systems and vehicles, before taking them into enormous, large-scale battles.

After seven years in development, the game will be released in November 2020.

BAFTA Scotland Presents: A Keynote With Brenda Romero

In partnership with Robert Gordon University and Oracle Academy, BAFTA Scotland presents a keynote with Brenda Romero, award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, entrepreneur, artist, writer, and creative director who has worked in gaming since 1981. As a …

GameCon 2016 – Scotland Gets Another New Games Festival

Typical isn’t it? You hang around for a couple of years waiting for someone to organise a games event in Scotland and before you know it, you’re knee deep in them. 4TG (4The Gamers) is …

Aberdeen University Offers Software Entrepreneurship Programme

Guest editorial from Dr Bruce Scharlau, University of Aberdeen… Games developers wanting to start a games business should look at the MSc Software Entrepreneurship programme at the University of Aberdeen. The programme aims to have student …

The Scottish Games Network Launches As Scotland’s Video Games Industry Body

Believe it or not, it’s nearly ten years since the Scottish Games Network first launched.  In 2005 we created a simple Yahoo group to help the growing number of game developers keep in touch.  It’s …