Wrestling Manager Receives Major Update

More muscles, more sweat, more grappling, grabbing, trash talking, chair slamming, pile driving, masks, trunks, mullets and MAYHEM.  Yes, Wrestling Manager, the inaugural title from Serious Parody has been updated and iterated and improved and adds more moves, modes and umm, mayhem than EVER BEFORE... Wrestling Manager has been tweaked, updated and changed based on …

Dare Winners Announced At Biggest Ever ProtoPlay

The 2012 Dare to be Digital competition came to a climax yesterday, when the winning teams were announced at a star-studded, glamorous and confetti covered awards ceremony. The awards were handed out at the end of the three day ProtoPlay event, which drew in a record crowd of over 10,000.  Players, developers, families, students and …

Protoplay 2012 – Day 2

Previously on Protoplay... Having never missed a Protoplay since its inception, PP:2012 will be my 6th, and I'm fortunate enough to have seen it from pretty much every angle available, staff helper, contestant (and winner!), and plain old attendee. This year I get to see it with a reporter's eyes, thanks to ScottishGames (I promise …

Dare Protoplay 2012 – Day 0

 If you’re reading this, Dare will probably be in full swing already. if you’re yet to go though, allow me to get you in the mood by sharing what makes this year’s even so important. Prologue This is the third Protoplay I’ve attended in person. I first found out about it almost four years ago, …

The UKs Biggest Indie Games Fest

The line-up of games which will be shown at the Dare to be Digital Protoplay Indie Festival has been announced.  It's looking awesome... There are over twenty new games in the showcase, including those developed by the Dare+ masterclass and titles from Abertay university's Mprof students.  There's a great mix of local companies and developers, …

Indie Game: The Movie – Scottish Premiere

Indie Game - the documentary which chronicles the trials and tribulations of independent game developers as they sacrifice their lives, income, pets and children in order to realise their dream, is coming to Scotland. The film has received critical acclaim and much love from the development community for its stark and unflinching portrayal of the …

Steve Hammond’s Manual Override: Category 7

When I was young, I used to have a recurring dream where I was falling. Books from the library, interpreting dreams, were of no use in telling me what it meant. I was falling upwards into the sky, pulled by a force towards something I couldn’t see. I knew it was there, some horrific thing, …

APB Hits 1.9.0

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 …

Enter Competition, Win Nice Award. Or Die Alone

Dear game developers... The BAFTA In Scotland 2012 competition has less than one week to go before entries close. There is a dedicated games category. If you enter it, you could win a BAFTA. BAFTA winners are glamorous and successful and can tell everybody that they are BAFTA AWARD WINNERS. Winning is a good thing, …