Scotland's official specialist gaming media got a little bit larger this week, as the Gamer Show Podcast on the British Tech Network, got in touch to say hello. It's a fortnightly show from the Scottish borders, hosted by three dedicated gamers who talk about that latest news, releases and events in the wide, wide world …
Denki Blocks Hits Turbulenz – Please Return To Your Seats
Denki Blocks! - the legendary game of yore. Â Multiple award winner, multiple platform encompasser and ultimate expression of sliding sticky blocks around a variety of environments in order to get them to bond in interesting shapes, has never really been away. Â It lives in the hearts of gamers everywhere and has untold legions of fans, …
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The Friday Financials – Minecraft XBLA & 40 Billion Apps
Rounding up the first week back at work in 2013, we have two stories highlighting the way the global video games market has changed - and how it promises to continue changing in 2013... First up, Minecraft. Â Every reader should, by now, be familiar with Mojang's LEGO-em-up. Â A combination of virtual world builder, role playing …
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Out Now – Save Santi – New From Inceptional Games
Out now, just in time for Christmas, comes Save Santi the brand new game from Edinburgh's Inceptional. Save Santi is a retro-styled puzzler in which the player must alter each level to help a handful of cute, cuddly, fuzzy and otherwise lovely little critters to reach dear old St Nick and save his jolly old …
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Battle Dungeon Withdrawn From App Store Due To Piracy Issues
Less than a week after the game was released, Hunted Cow has taken the decision to remove Battle Dungeon from the Apple App Store, thanks to massive piracy making the game's server costs unsustainable. Initial demand highlighted a few issues with the server to the company, who looked into the game's usage to discover that …
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Battle Dungeon – Too Hardcore For iOS
Hunted Cow's latest release is Battle Dungeon, a multiplayer strategy game for Apple devices, which has already been branded 'too hard core for iOS' by the games press. The game challenges players to assemble a party of warriors, archers and clerics, train them, equip them and then take them into battle - playing against other …
Best. App. Ever. Yours?
Steel Media is the company behind the hugely popular Pocketgamer websites and which now owns the 148apps website too. Now the company has just announced the 2012 BEST APP EVER competition. As the name suggests, it is an awards competition, designed to find the world's best apps - across all platforms and formats. The competition …
Billions And Billions Of Blazing Bubbles! And Dragons
Outplay Entertainment, the venture-backed team of pro zany funsters in Dundee are back with a new game and it's effervescent with dragony goodness. Bubble Blaze is a classic bubble busting extravaganza, known and loved by billions of buoyant bubble bursters all over the cosmos. Outplay promises that Bubble Blaze will bring new depths to the …
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Apple’s App Store Hits 1,000,000 Apps
From yesterday's Venturebeat: Apple's App Store has hit the 1,000,000 apps mark, according to social app discovery company Appsfire, with more than 30,000 Apps being submitted to Apple each and every month. The App store launched in July 2008. Â In October 2012, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that over 35 BILLION apps had been downloaded …
Yeti Sighting In Scotland
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of years of anecdotal sightings, reports and intriguingly blurry photos, there has been no definitive proof of the existence of mysterious cryptids such as the yeti, sasquatch or skunk ape. Reports of flying bipedal hominids are even rarer. Â One thinks of John Keel's experiences in Point Pleasant, Virginia, with the …