Despite a fairly rough 2010, Denki, Scotland's smiliest, shiniest games studio has officially hit 11 years old. As is traditional, they made a cake. No word on the presence of Jelly and/or ice cream, but we're fairly sure there would have been games, party hats and twinkles. We'd like to wish Denki many happy returns …
First Ever Dare Game Hits The App Store
The first videogame, created as part of the Dare to be Digital competition, has launched commercially on the Apple App Store. Sculpty, which was created by Team Tickle as part of the 2010 Dare competition is now available for the iPad. Sculpty is a physics-based platform game, in which players pinch, poke, stretch and sculpt …
Game In Scotland, Dundee, Sat 26th March
If you haven't come across the Game In Scotland recruitment fair before, it's fairly simple to explain. It's a recruitment fair, for the games industry in Scotland. See? The clues were all there. It tends to pull in all of the Scottish development studios, from the smallest to the largest, who have stands and accept …
GTA V Rumours Surface As GTA IV Sales Hit 20M
The GTA V rumour mill went up a notch this week, with news that Take Two has arranged a casting call for an as yet undisclosed project, known only by the codename 'Rush'. It's widely surmised that Rush is the next installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise and that the game will be set …
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FPS Trainer Hits Beta, Announces New Features/Content
The Team at Play2Improve has been hard at work on FPS Trainer since the innovative training and coaching service for First-Person-Shooter games was announced in late 2010. The response to the initial press release was very positive. So much so that the hosts of the original website, immediately collapsed under the tsunami of visitors. As …
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Happy Birthday Lemmings!
There's still time to sign up for tonight's bash at Abertay (5pm-7pm) [Image Source]
It Was 20 Years Ago Today…
UPDATED - Now with extra added news coverage! (See below) It's actually twenty years ago come Monday, the 14th, but LEMMINGS, one of the first truly international superstar smashes of the home computer era is 20 years old. Created, nurtured, ported and developed in Dundee by DMA Design back in 1991, the game has gone …
Outplay – New Games Publisher Launches
Outplay Entertainment, a new videogames publisher focusing on social networks and smartphones launched today. The company will be headquartered in Dundee, with details of premises expected within the next several weeks. Outplay is already actively recruiting and is working with Glasgow gaming recruitment experts Specialmove to find talented, passionate and enthusiastic people to join them. …
Game To Learn – Scotland’s Largest Games Based Learning Event – March 17th-19th
Readers of this blog, as clever and pretty as they undoubtedly are, may not have come across the Consolarium before. Describing itself as the 'Scottish Centre For Games & Learning', the Consolarium uses commercially available games - hardware and titles - within classrooms. Side stepping the serious games sector and instead looking at how to …
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Cohort Recruits Marketing Manager
As the headline suggests, Cohort Studios in Dundee has appointed its first marketing manager. Grant Alexander is the gentleman in question. With a background in retail, tourism and marketing to today's 'youths', Grant will be bringing a fresh approach to traditional games marketing. In the (admittedly very slick) press release, Mr Alexander commented: “This really …