Scottish Development International is holding a market awareness event focusing on Doing Business in China 2014. It takes place in Edinburgh on Thursday 6th March 2014. The event should be particularly useful for companies taking part in the proposed Scottish pavilion at ChinaJoy (July 2014). The seminar is free and will be hosted by SDI, supported by CBBC (China …
Codefirst: Girls – Empowering Female Graduates In Edinburgh
Codefirst: Girls is a free part-time course for female students, which runs on university campuses. The aim of the project is to address the gender imbalance within the tech sector and the fact that less than 10% of tech startup founders are female. The organisation is partnering with TechCube to bring the programme to Edinburgh …
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Game In Scotland 2014
Saturday March 1st is the date. Dundee is the location. Game In Scotland is back for 2014 - bigger and better than ever before. This year's GIS offers something for everyone - whether you're looking for a job, starting your own company, working on a new project, or looking for advice from industry experts. Funded …
GTA – Best Selling Game Of 2013, Makes More Than Global Music Industry
It's official, GTA V has done rather well. In addition to breaking all sort of Guinness world records, the game was the best-selling release in 2013, breaking Call Of Duty's four year run at the top spot. It was also revealed that the game made more in its first month than the entire global music …
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How This Works… NEWS
Scottishgames.net is the only website out there, which will run news and updates from every games-related company in Scotland. Whether you're a developer, a technology company, a freelancer or a part-time team, the site exists to support you and give you visibility and credibility in an increasingly saturated market. To make this work, we need …
Scottish Games Network Partners With Scottish Games Expo
Back in November we reported a new public facing games event being planned for October 2014, in Edinburgh's International Conference Centre. Since then we've met Magdala Media, the company behind the expo a couple of times, to find out their plans for the expo and to see where it fits into Scotland's gaming calendar. The …
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Working With Games Companies In China – Free Webinar
The team at Scottish Development International have passed on an opportunity to participate in a free online seminar (or webinar if you must) aimed at games companies interested in doing business in China. Organised by the EU SME centre, the webinar is a free 45 minute minute presentation, followed by a 30 minute Q&A session. …
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Cross Creative 2013 Now Open – You Need To Do This People…
Cross Creative is one of those amazing, unique and pioneering projects that you can't quite believe exists. It's supported by several major organisations including Channel 4, Creative Scotland and Scottish Enterprise and over the last several years, it has included participants from many of the country's leading game developers, animators, technology companies and creative studios. …
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11 Creative & Digital Companies In Glasgow Split £620,000
The Digital and Creative Clyde Launchpad competition, was launched in January by the UK's innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board, in a partnership with Creative Clyde. The launchpad was created to accelerate the expansion of digital and creative businesses and help develop the growing community of creative businesses in Glasgow. The competition was open to SMEs …
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Guerilla Tea’s 2nd Birthday – Beer, Cake and a Game Release!
As of today, we’ve been in business for 2 years. It’s scary how quickly the time has gone by. We could describe the past year as ‘tumultuous’ to say the least and it’s been an awesome learning experience. It’s still very early days for Guerilla Tea, but throughout the last year we’ve built up a …
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