Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
It's true. As true as the morning sunrise and that physical bodies attract with a force proportional to their mass... Quarrel. It lives. It's OUT NOW on the App Store. For iPhone, iPad and iPod. Regular Quarrel, which is just very, very good indeed, is FREE. While Quarrel Deluxe adds a plethora of features which grace only the very finest, hand-crafted …
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Dundee's Tag Games has been selected as one of Mobile Entertainment magazine's Top 50 UK Mobile Innovators, the only Scottish games developer in the list. It's a fairly respectable list too. According to the magazine... ME's Top 50 Mobile Innovators project, sponsored by O2 BlueVia, was a quest to identify the firms doing amazing things …
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If you've read Scottishgames.net for any length of time, you'll know that we're big fans of the Dare to be Digital competition. Our editor has been involved in a variety of ways over the last 10 years and welcomes any opportunity to inform, educate and enthrall listeners with the benefits and vast potential of Dare …
Gaming pioneer, legend, superhero and all round good chap, David Braben is to open the increasingly awesome sounding Dare ProtoPlay later this month. Mr Braben promises to discuss the development, genesis and evolution of arguably his most famous creation, Elite and the games it has inspired and influenced over the last 20 years. All of …
A big thank you to the highly talented Stewart Graham for our most recent Scottishgames banner, Colour Clash. Currently working with Tag Games, Stewart is a veteran of Denki and DMA Design. He's also working on a number of other projects we hope to bring you at some point soon... You can see some of …
Cohort Studios' last title, Me Monstar: Hear Me Roar! is now available for the Sony PlayStation3 and PSP. We haven't heard a great deal about this game till now, but some of the early artwork and subtle hints made us quite excited for an original new idea from the Cohort team. It looks like the …
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In the past few years, the pioneering team at Dare to be Digital has held a balloon race, in which participants sent balloons off to all four corners of the world and involved citizens of many lands, indigenous peoples and tribesfolks in the flourishing world of gaming. This year, however, even with the use of …
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YoYo Games has launched its brand new - and very slick - website. The new site outlines all of the company's activities, from the hugely popular Game Maker app, through to the online community of game makers and games, as well as the more recent publishing arm. YoYo has created a greal deal of momentum …
To celebrate the fourth of July, the team at Proper Games is making their brand new iPad game, Yo Deshi, FREE - but only for 24 hours. What is Yo Deshi? Well, Proper Games describes it like this: YoDeshi is the long lost game from ancient China! This 1-2 Player game is perfect for passing …
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It's official. Dare to be Digital's ProtoPlay event is going to be the biggest ever. A full on festival of gaming goodness, taking place over three days in mid-August in the city centre. Alongside the games being created by the Dare teams, we hear there is a pro-gamer tournament, a game jam (open to professionals …
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