Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Swallowtail Games, started life as a team in the Dare to Be Digital competition. Now the team has secured funding from the Prototype fund, overseen by the University of Abertay and has set up shop as a new studio, based in Dundee. The team's original Dare project, Tick Tock Toys, will be the new company's …
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Cobra's Danger Derby is a top-down, arcade style racer which brought multiplayer Micro Machines style driving to the Apple App Store in 2010. Now the company is taking the same high octane action to the new Roku streaming media player for TV. The Roku is similar to the Apple TV, giving viewers access to streaming TV, …
Three of Scotland's most experienced game developers have set up a new game development studio based in Dundee. Stormcloud Games has been launched by Frank Arnot, Andy West and Pat McGovern, who between them have over 50 years of development experience and have launched 45 games, covering almost every genre and platform, including Minecraft (XBLA), …
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Calamity Falls is one of those sleepy little towns which seems untouched by the ravages of time. Everybody knows their neighbours, they always take time to say good morning, gap-toothed freckled kids riding bikes, will take the time to help an elderly lady cross the road, and the local Mom & Pop store always have …
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If his cultural references seem old, it's because he was frozen in carbonite for a bit. Gangnam style is still beyond him... Some time ago, 2K's Christoph Hartmann, in an article with Games Industry.biz, talked about future consoles. He expressed the opinion that photorealism is the way forward. Games lack proper emotions and this is the only …
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It's the start of awards season in the games world. From now until Christmas, an array of glittering and glamorous awards ceremonies will be taking place across the length and breadth of the UK, as various organisations hand out a variety of trophies, awards, gongs, certificates and other endorsements, to game developers, publishers and associated …
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Cobra's iBomber franchise is has achieved many glorious - and bloody - victories in recent years. From the original iBomber, to the tower defence blitzkrieg of the iBomber Defense titles, the series has gone from strength to strength, impressing players with their simple, intuitive controls and the sheer amount of stuff you get to blow …
Jinkys! We have a new company AND a new game to introduce today. Too Easy Games is a new indie games studio based in Dundee and formed by four Abertay graduates. The company has already released its first title, a halloween-themed puzzler called Trap Mansion, in which players must negotiate the pitfalls (literally) of a …
The nominations for the 2012 BAFTA In Scotland awards were announced yesterday. Alongside the glamour and household names in the film and actor categories, the far more vital and fascinating games category nominees were named. They are, in no particular order: Bad Hotel - Lucky Frame iBomber Defense Pacific - Cobra Golf Squared - Dynamo Games Bad Hotel is, we all know, a tower …
The 2012 TIGA Awards nominations have been announced, with several Scottish companies and teams included. There are several categories where Scotland is well represented - most notably the student games category which, thanks to Dare to be Digital, we dominate almost entirely. However there are many categories which rather inexplicably don't include any games from …
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