Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Women in Games (WIG) has unveiled an exciting initiative to celebrate PRIDE month, announcing the WIG PRIDE 24-Hour Charity Stream - scheduled for Saturday, June 28th to Sunday, June 29th, 2025. This special event, supported by IGDA PRIDE, aims to bring together communities from across the games ecosystem to raise vital funds for The Trevor …
Steven Mair Becomes The UK's First Gamer-in-Residence After Games for the Weans Campaign Raises Over £100,000 Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity (GCHC), in conjunction with partners Devolver Digital and Neonhive, is delighted to appoint (the awesome) Steven Mair as its first-ever GCHC Gamer-in-Residence role at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, the first full-time role of …
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The award-winning Games for the Weans campaign saw funds raised by game developers and publishers like No Code, Hyper Luminal Games and Astrodreamer Studio. Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity is delighted to reveal that the Games for the Weans campaign has raised over £66,000 in 2023. The GCHC (which won a Glasgow Business Award in October) …
David Stickland, the joint CEO of Zappaty, is a huge cycling enthusiast and has set himself a new challenge to take on the Three Pistes Cycle Sportive on the 4th of June 2022 to raise vital funds for UK based partner charity GamesAid. Three Pistes Cycle Sportive In a short number of years, the Sportive …
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Bundle For Ukraine is a pack of almost 1000 games and pieces of digital content from over 700 creators. Worth over $6500, you can buy it for only $10, with all proceeds going to help charities working in the country.
The SpecialEffect DevKit is a new free resource for developers with information on making games accessible to players with physical challenges
IRN-BRU is giving gamers the chance to win the ultimate branded gaming rig and help the Special Effect charity at the same time.
Island Saver, the free multiplatform clean-em-up from Stormcloud and NatWest, has raised over £74,000 for the Special Effect and Young Money charities, through sales of downloadable content (DLC).
Join Colin Macdonald and a glittering lineup of the games industry's most glamorous personalities, for One Special Night 2021, raising money for Special Effect, as part of the charity's One Special Day event.
AdInMo, the InGamePlay brand advertising platform, has published the results of a mobile in-game advertising campaign by Walk the Walk, aimed at reaching new and younger audiences as well as raising awareness of male breast cancer.