Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The Scottish Games Network (SGN) today announced the 'More Than Games: Creative Industries Innovation Summit,' an initiative set to bridge the country's vibrant games ecosystem with its creative, cultural, and heritage sectors. Scheduled for November 26th, 2025, at Barclays Eagle Lab in Glasgow, this invitation-only event is supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland. …
The Scottish Games Network is delighted to announce the Scotnesia Game Exchange 2025, a special online event designed to build bridges between the Scottish and Indonesian games ecosystems. The event will take place this Thursday, 7th August 2025, from 10:30 - 14:00 BST. This is a valuable and timely opportunity for Scottish developers, studios, and …
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Last week, Holyrood Magazine published a significant feature on Scotland's games ecosystem, titled 'Game on: Will Scotland lead the sector's next economic boom?' It’s a piece I was pleased to contribute to, and one that I believe captures both the immense, often overlooked, potential of our games sector here in Scotland, and some of the …
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The Scottish Games Network has officially relaunched its Discord channel, marking the first step in an exciting redesign of our platform and community. This is part of a larger initiative to make SGN not just the news channel, but the central hub for Scotland’s vibrant and diverse games community. We hope this relaunch offers creators, …
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Exclusive SGN Research Gives Snapshot Of Industry In 2020 & 2021 Scotland's Games Industry Data: How big is Scotland's games sector? How many development studios are out there? Believe it or not, no part of the government or public sector in Scotland captures data on the games industry. View: Scotland's Games Industry Data For such …
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March 12th Marks The First CPG On Scotland's Games Ecosystem In-Person & Online Tickets Available Now A group of MSPs from the Scottish Parliament have agreed to create a new cross party group on Scotland's games ecosystem. The first meeting of the Games Ecosystem CPG will take place at the Scottish Parliament at 18:00 on …
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challenges companies, studios, and individuals face in the rapidly evolving games market. This will be done through the first Scottish Games Ecosystem Survey. Open to every creator, developer and business in the Scottish games and interactive sector, the survey is available NOW.
The last time Scotland's videogames industry had any sort of national profile in MCV, the industry trade journal, it was 2011/12. That's a long time ago - especially in a sector which moves as quickly and evolves so rapidly as gaming. At that point Realtime Worlds was still the talk of the town, Outplay was …
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