Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Hunted Cow's progress from obscure development studio to publishing behemoth is continuing. The latest studio to sign a publishing agreement with the Elgin empire is Dundee's Red Radiant Media. The companies will be bringing an original new title, Planet Rush to iOS and Android later this year. While initial details are scarce, Planet Rush sounds like …
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Eldevin, the new massively-multiplayer online role-playing game from Hunted Cow, is currently in closed beta, but players are now being offered the chance to become Founders of the realm, thanks to new content packs created by by the developer. The game, which combines the epic scale of World of Warcraft or Runescape, but is entirely …
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From a mysterious and relatively unknown company somewhere in the wilds of Northern Scotland, Hunted Cow has emerged as one of the most active and rapidly growing games companies in the UK. Last week the company announced it had signed a deal with Criss Cross Games to bring the studios' first game to market. …
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Hunted Cow, the highlands-based developer and publisher behind games including Tank Battle: North Africa, Battle Dungeon: Risen and Fallen Sword, has signed a deal with Dundee's Criss Cross Games, to bring the studio's first title, Crystal Reign, to market on a number of platforms, beginning with iOS and Android tablets. Details on the game are …
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Hunted Cow's relentless invasion of the mobile strategy market continues with the company's latest release. Pyramus is the company's first real-time strategy game. Set in deep space, players must take control of individual ships to outwit, outmanoeuvre and destroy their opponents. Pyramus offers two distinct races, each with different ships, different capabilities and different weapons. …
Hunted Cow, the development studio behind games including Fallen Sword, Eldevin, Battle Dungeon: Risen, Tank Battle: 1944 and Civil War: 1863 are looking for paid interns, to work with the company over the summer. These are PAID positions, offering minimum national wage and are full time (40 hours per week, 8 x weeks contract). As Hunted Cow describes …
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Develop Magazine is putting together its list of the UK's 100 top developers, to be released in June, in association with the fine folks at UKIE. In past years, studios were judged solely on revenue generation. However this year's list promises to be rather different. Here's how the magazine describes the 2013 process: Studios of …
The International Game Developers Association has voted Scotland's Luke Dicken to the board of directors, the first director of the organisation from outside the USA. Already a director of IGDA Scotland, Luke now joins the global board, helping the organisation to grow and evolve to keep pace with the ever more diverse interactive industry. If …
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China is rapidly becoming the dominant force in a number of areas. From a recent Quartz article we learn that: "After becoming the world’s leading manufacturer of goods and largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China can add world’s leading consumer of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) to its trophy case. “By the end of February …
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Hunted Cow has achieved a great deal since the company was founded back in 2003. The company has launched a variety of online massively multiplayer gamers including Fallen Sword and Gothador. They've tried pioneered new business models, such as free-to-play gaming, years before the whole idea of freemium reached the mainstream games sector and they've …
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