Lucky Frame's quirky and deeply cool Pugs Luv Beats has been nominated in the Independent Games Festival's 'Excellence In Audio' award category. The IGF is the world's leading indie games competition. It runs alongside the prestigious Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco in early March. All of the finalists will have their …
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It would seem that the generosity of spirit, love and compassion which the games industry is famous for, is shining out like a beacon for Christmas 2011. A variety of developers have provided promo codes for their games to say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or more ecumenically, have a lovely couple of weeks off... Here's …
Play For Good – Fat Bob, PlayMob & SpecialEffect Launch Drop Catcher For Charity
We covered the launch of Drop Catcher earlier this year, when the game hit the App Store. Now however, Fat Bob Games, the developer of Drop Catcher are working with Play Mob & games charity Special Effect to raise money via the game's in-app purchases. Drop Catcher is free to download and play, but will …
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Cereproc Granted Patent For Emotional Speech Synthesis System
It may be heading rapidly towards the end of the year, but the new keeps on coming, like endless waves of informative zombies towards an isolated mountain hut. You may not have come across Cereproc before, but the Edinburgh-based company is a leader in speech synthesis and text-to-speech systems. Now, the company's emotional speech synthesis …
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Pugs Love Beats – Bringing The Awesome
Ladies & gentlemen today, with only twelve days of the year left, we present what may be 2011's most adorable - and best sounding game. The constantly surprising team at Edinburgh's Lucky Frame studios today released Pugs Love Beats, a brand new game for iOS. Players take charge of a growing army of space Pugs. …
Channel 4 Appoints Colin MacDonald As New Commissioning Editor for Games
Just hit the newswires: Channel 4 announces the appointment of Colin Macdonald as its first Games Commissioning Editor. He will be based in Glasgow and report into Convergent Formats Commissioner Anna Cronin. Macdonald is a respected and pioneering figure in the gaming industry and has worked on some of the most innovative titles of all …
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BAFTA New Talent Awards – Call For Entries
Hot on the heels of the BAFTA In Scotland awards, the BAFTA New Talent Awards are now open for business. This competition is aimed at students and developers working on their first project. There is a specific games category, which is open to games on all platforms. Entrants can be part of a larger team, …
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The Ship – Back From The Dead
New Edinburgh-based independent studio Blazing Griffin has acquired the highly acclaimed online title The Ship: Murder Party. The Ship was originally created by Outerlight, another Scottish development studio, which sadly went out of business earlier this year, before the company's second game - Bloody Good Time was released on Xbox Live Arcade. The Ship was …
Introducing Brain Dead Ape
Ladies and gentlemen, please give a very warm Scottishgames type welcome to the team at Brain Dead Ape. A development studio with one foot in the world o' games and another in traditional software development, Brain Dead Ape is working in the mobile (iOS and Android) markets, as well as the rapidly growing gamification and …