Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
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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Hunted Cow, the development studio and publisher based in Elgin, Scotland, has released it's latest title for Apple iOS devices. Tank Battle: North Africa is the sequel to Tank Battle: 1944 which hit the app store in March last year. Tank Battle: North Africa is a hex-based, turn-based strategy game, in which the player takes …
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In the most recent issue of Develop, the industry magazine for the creators of video games, there's a regional focus piece looking at the games sector in Scotland. The piece pulls in quotes from a number of companies, including Rockstar North, Tag, eeGeo, Denki and YoYo Games. The article explores the impact on the games …
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Less than a week after the game was released, Hunted Cow has taken the decision to remove Battle Dungeon from the Apple App Store, thanks to massive piracy making the game's server costs unsustainable. Initial demand highlighted a few issues with the server to the company, who looked into the game's usage to discover that …
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Hunted Cow's latest release is Battle Dungeon, a multiplayer strategy game for Apple devices, which has already been branded 'too hard core for iOS' by the games press. The game challenges players to assemble a party of warriors, archers and clerics, train them, equip them and then take them into battle - playing against other …
Battle Dungeon is a brand new multiplayer, turn-based strategy game, from the team at Hunted Cow. Battle Dungeon offers a level of depth and complexity normally associated with PC-based strategy games, but optimised and designed for the latest generation of iOS devices - iPads, iPhones and iPods. The game allows players to put together a …
The 2012 TIGA Awards nominations have been announced, with several Scottish companies and teams included. There are several categories where Scotland is well represented - most notably the student games category which, thanks to Dare to be Digital, we dominate almost entirely. However there are many categories which rather inexplicably don't include any games from …
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A nation divided. Two opposing sides, united by a love of their country, yet torn asunder by irreconcilable differences and notions of what it means to be 'an American'. Ideology, political wrangling and corruption descending into hostility, conflict and open warfare... Not the forthcoming US elections, sadly, but the American civil war. A period of …
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Hunted Cow, the Elgin-based Online Role-playing game specialist has launched a website to support the company's forthcoming game Eldevin. Eldevin is a browser-based massively-multiplayer role playing game (or MMORPG if you prefer). Elvdein is Java-based and features both Player-versus-Environment (PvE or doing stuff yourself) and Player-versus-Player (PVP or knocking lumps out of other people) gameplay. …
Following the release of WarPath for the iPad, we caught up with the founder and chief code weaver of Whisky Biscuit, Stuart Gray, to ask him a few questions about the company, its games and its plans for the future... Scottishgames: Thank you for taking the time to speak to us, Stuart. So, starting at …
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