Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Snow is falling, all around us, or if you're in the North East of the UK, whipping past you horizontally accompanied by parts of tree, roof tiles and fun garden trampolines. It can mean only one thing - 'tis the season for the Ukie Big Christmas Quiz of the Year! This year,. the industry's favourite …
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Play it Now: "Santa" Christmas Is Coming is a lovely wee Christmas game from Lazy Monday, which features a light-fingered nocturnal visitor who's probably Father Christmas...
Santa, the jolly old elf, the spirit of Christmas. Â Whatever your opinion of the coke-endorsing, child judging, toy distributor, you cannot argue that he works hard. Â On the holidays too. Â It's heart warming and deeply impressive that he manages to hit every household in the world (according to religion, income and willingness to conform to …
Game City is, in our opinion, one of the most exciting and original video games events anywhere in the world. It exemplifies all that is best about gaming. Â It celebrates the culture and the activity of actually playing games. Â It champions the creativity and design of the video games world and it manages to avoid …
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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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The chances are that you didn't know the Scottish Games Network, in addition to being your exclusive, comprehensive source for all that is good and true and exciting in the rapidly evolving interactive industry, was also a globally respected house of fashion. The Scottish Games Corner Shop offers a staggering array of fabulous, stylish and …
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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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We're always delighted to welcome a new company to the Scottish Games Network. Â It's even better when the company in question has just completed its very own boss fight with a major media giant, which was trying to crush it like a bug underfoot. So please welcome Inceptional Games. Â Based in Edinburgh, the company was …
Have a very Happy Christmas, readers. Â We'll be posting over the holidays, but would like to thank you all for flying Scottishgames.net in 2011 and look forward to your ongoing patronage in 2012. Till then have a lovely holiday, complete with presents, mince pies and much love. Brian...
It would seem that the generosity of spirit, love and compassion which the games industry is famous for, is shining out like a beacon for Christmas 2011. A variety of developers have provided promo codes for their games to say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or more ecumenically, have a lovely couple of weeks off... Here's …