The latest update for online Cops & Robbers crimefest, APB: Reloaded was uploaded over the weekend, adding new content, items and activities to the MMO. A new Joker distribution centre has been added to the game, while entirely new activities (and levels of activities) have been added to the game's Fight Club mode, giving players …
The Most Awesome Games Event In The World. Ever.
It may seem like there's a LOT going on in August. EIF is coming, Dare is rapidly Protoplying (yes, Protoplying) into something of real significance and now, the Turing Festival has a half day of interactive entertainment thought leaders, luminaries and speakers, all appearing in Edinburgh on the 23rd of August, for the astonishing price …
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Dare ProtoPlay Indie Fest Programme Confirmed – Wow!
The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be rather busy. We're not talking about the Olym-ic-, or the opportunity to be die of exposure at a picnic. We're talking about the games goodness and the head-to-head smackdown taking place between the incumbent Edinburgh Interactive Festival and the plucky upstart of Dare Protoplay and it's …
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Edinburgh Interactive Festival Programme
The final line-up for the 2012, tenth anniversary Edinburgh Interactive Festival has been announced. It's a who's-who of significant industry experts and innovative interactive loveliness. This year's keynote speaker is Seamus Blackley, who's looking into “The Future of Fun”. This promises to be an informative and insightful discourse regarding the future we are launched into, by …
Games Analytics & Urban Airship Make Games Provably Better
Urban Airship, the US company which provides mobile push messaging services, and Scotland's predictive analytics specialist GamesAnalytics, have announced a strategic partnership that should help games developers reach out and contact their users in new ways. The specialism and skills in this partnership should allow greater engagement with games and allow developers/publishers to identify and …
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Games Analytics Shifts Into Top Gear
Games Analytics, Edinburgh's data delving wizards, have been signed by BBC Worldwide to support the new Top Gear: Stunt School Revolution mobile game. Games Analytics has integrated their Predict technology into the game and is already improving player engagement for the free-to-play title. The game experience for different players has been optimised and redesign of …
EIF – Pitch A Game, Impress A Dragon, Get In Free
A week or so back, we mentioned that this year's Edinburgh Interactive Festival would feature a session called Thare Be Dragons, in which young, hopeful, aspiring game developers would pitch ideas to a panel of industry heavyweights, mavens and Simon Cowell-esque judges, in an effort to win the approbation and a bucket of free (pretend) …
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Cosmic Reactor – New Educational Kids Title From Interface 3
Cosmic Reactor is a new iPad title, currently in development by Interface 3, the educational games company based in Edinburgh. Cosmic Reactor has been designed for kids aged five upwards. The game promises to help push numeracy and literacy skills, as well as “an ensemble cast of quirky alien characters and fastest-finger reaction challenges. Multi-round gameplay will keep players …
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Turing Festival, Edinburgh, August 2012
There's a new event in town. IN 2011, the first ever Turing Festival was held in Edinburgh. It was an eclectic blend of technology, digital media, design, interactive elements and featured some seriously good speakers (including your editor, at the last minute, after a VC fled...) Now the Turing Festival is back for 2012. The …
Speech Graphics Recruiting
One of the companies we were massively impressed by at the recent Engage-Invest-Exploit event in Edinburgh was Speech Graphics. Their technology, which synchronises lip movement with recorded speech is simply the best we've seen. To the extent that all of the Xbox 360 and PS3 games we played over the following weeks looked almost embarrassing …