Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Showcasing Scotland's Games community: Earlier this month, I announced the new vision for the Scottish Games Network: to evolve from a news site into a dynamic, multi-platform media hub for our entire ecosystem. The response has been fantastic, and the next crucial step is to open up the platform to the most important voices across …
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You may have noticed that the output of the Scottish Games Network has increased over the last few weeks. You may even have noticed that the quality and variety of the writing has improved. This is due to two new members of the SGN team. Andrew Gordon and Ryan Duff have come on board to …
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Following an astonishing unattributed article posted in last week's Edinburgh Evening News, Brian Baglow, director of the Scottish Games Network has invited the tabloid to 'consider what it's about', to 'perhaps join the rest of us in the 21st century' and to direct all of its efforts to becoming 'slightly less shit.' In the article, …
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We've been hearing whispers, terrified, strangled whispers coming from Team Junkfish for the last few months. The company's latest title, Monstrum has been under wraps for some time, but now the first information is starting to hit the press and it sounds like something special... Junkfish spoke to VG247's Dave Cook recently, with the first …
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Develop Magazine has published a week of features examining and exploring the games sector in Scotland, kicking off with a provocative piece of editorial asking if Scotland could become the next Finland? Scotland is a nation that potentially faces major political changes this year, but how will that affect the region’s impressive output of video …
VG247's news editor Dave Cook has just published issue number 1 of his new, regular, Scotland-focused editorial, VG247 Scotland, looking at the state of the games industry as it relates to Scotland and including creators, CEOs and experts from Scotland's video games sector. This new issue explores the various distribution channels available to games creators, …
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VG247's UK News Editor, Dave Cook has done something disruptive. He's started a regular column on the VG247 site focusing on the video games sector in Scotland.Covering business news, releases, updates and interviews, VG247 Scotland will be an ongoing feature on the site and combine in-depth reporting, with news updates and a new industry discussion, …
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Ready-Up is something a little different from the usual consumer games website. It does reviews, it does features. You can, should you wish, find out everything about that new console title you've had your eye on. Ready-Up however goes further. It's about community, it's about interaction with readers and it's about allowing their writers to …
You may remember that Scottishgames recently introduced Steve Hammond into the fray as a guest columnist, giving you insightful and surprising tidbits into the Scottish game industry's origins. We've also had the wonderful Phil Harris reporting from this year's Edinburgh Interactive, reporting the gig like you were actually there! Now we add a new guest …