Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The Computer Games Journal is one of the only academic journals in the world focusing on the computer games industry and the issues facing the creators, technologies and innovators within this rapidly evolving sector. It was created and is edited here in Scotland by a team of respected academics including editor-in-chief Dr John Sutherland, Dr …
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Urban Airship, the US company which provides mobile push messaging services, and Scotland's predictive analytics specialist GamesAnalytics, have announced a strategic partnership that should help games developers reach out and contact their users in new ways. The specialism and skills in this partnership should allow greater engagement with games and allow developers/publishers to identify and …
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Games Analytics, Edinburgh's data delving wizards, have been signed by BBC Worldwide to support the new Top Gear: Stunt School Revolution mobile game. Games Analytics has integrated their Predict technology into the game and is already improving player engagement for the free-to-play title. Â The game experience for different players has been optimised and redesign of …
The games industry is changing. Â It's a business which has always been driven by technology but, for many years, this meant that the gee-whizzery and eye candy aspects of games soaked up all the time, attention and column inches. Â more polygons at higher frame rates and ever more elaborate rocket launchers were the order of …
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