Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
While there's been nothing officially 'official' word crept out via the social networks yesterday that Dundee's 4J Studios will be responsible for bringing indie games phenomenon Minecraft, to Xbox Live Arcade. A Facebook update from one of the studio heads yesterday, stated: "Delighted to announce 4J Studios is developing Minecraft for XBLA. Respect to Notch …
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Following the shock revelation that Denki's long-delayed (and highly anticipated) Quarrel is heading for multiple platforms later this year, the game has received several favourable mentions in the press. Now you can follow, friend and favour the ravishing risk-like rogues of Quarrel on your very own Facebook for updates, new materials and the latest news …
It's that time again. 15 teams from 16 universities around the world are now in Dundee, with only NINE weeks to create a working videogame, before showing it off to members of the public at the ProtoPlay event in central Dundee in August. This year's event is larger than ever before. Entries were received from …
The second Digital Spark conference takes place at the University of Abertay at the end of June. The conference focuses on the creation, use and protection of Intellectual Property within the creative industries. Alongside presentations from companies such as Google, Sony, Universal Music, Sega and Aardman, Digital Spark offers introductory workshops, or indeed master classes, …
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Cobra's ridiculously addictive tower defence game iBomber Defence continues its apparently unstoppable blitzkrieg, across gaming platforms, with Steam the latest to fall to the game's fabulous blend of action and strategy. Available now for both PC and Mac, iBomber Defence is priced at a very reasonable £3.49. It's too late for us, but you might …
ProtoPlay is the culmination of the whole Dare to be Digital competition. It's a three day celebration of games, gaming and creativity. The teams which have competed over the previous ten weeks, have three days to demonstrate their prototypes to the public, gather votes and impress the hell out of the industry judges. Around this …
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There have been a number of fairly exciting announcements coming from this weeks Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) games trade show out in LA. Sony Microsoft and Nintendo are all doing jolly exciting things. New hardware. More games. Another Halo. The usual bits and pieces you'd expect really. However the 2011 E3 was marked by an …
Do you see what we did there? Happy birthday to Dundee mobile powerhouse Tag, which celebrated its fifth birthday this week. Alongside cake, jelly, ice cream and a pin the tail on the tester competition, the studio celebrated - as you would - with a 24 hour #TagHack - in which their development folks split …
YoYo Games, the company behind the popular Game Maker programme, which allows users to create and publish their own games, has been busy lately. Very busy. Technology updates, new games, new partnerships, new team members AND courses teaching Game Maker are all now in progress - putting YoYo very firmly at the front of the …
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When we last heard from Outplay Entertainment - the new social and mobile games publisher, founded by Douglas and Richard Hare - they had launched the company with some ambitious recruitment plans and the best wishes of the Scottish Government ringing in their ears. Then it went a little bit quiet. Well, it turns out …