Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The BAFTA-nominated Guerilla Tea has been in touch to tell us they're two years old this very day. Happy birthday GT. Why not celebrate with a cup of tea, a G&T or a par-T? Guerilla Tea are not celebrating with a 24 hour game jam. They are instead hard at work in their tiny office, …
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A week or so back, we mentioned that this year's Edinburgh Interactive Festival would feature a session called Thare Be Dragons, in which young, hopeful, aspiring game developers would pitch ideas to a panel of industry heavyweights, mavens and Simon Cowell-esque judges, in an effort to win the approbation and a bucket of free (pretend) …
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Tag Games is SIX years old today. Happy birthday Tag. They're the company behind games including Car Jack Streets, Funpark Friends, Doctor Who: Mazes of Time and True Grit. To celebrate, the company is holding its second annual Game Jam. Only this year, it's personal... Five teams of fearless development superstars will be slogging it …
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are delighted to bring you Mr Steve Hammond, in what we hope will be a regular monthly column. We think of him as a combination of Charlie Brooker and Neil Oliver, but Steve's official biography states... Steve Hammond currently works as a programmer in the aerospace industry. While he would have …
Cobra's iBomber Defense Pacific has been nominated in the Best Mobile Games category in this year's European Games Awards. It's up against several other popular titles and is currently third in its category behind Burnout Crash and Another World 20th Anniversary Edition. This is something worth winning. Forget the Golden Rose of Montreaux, this competition …
Are you a commercial organisation? Do you do business? Well? If so, then you may well be eligible to enter the Queens Award For Enterprise competition. It's a competition to reward enterprising companies, for their hard work and enterprise - and it's by her majesty The Queen. Which makes it more special than your average, …
The government's proposed tax breaks system for the interactive industry has generally been considered a good thing. The devil, however, is in the details. Many developers are at least partially suspicious that the government will grant tax relief only to meda corporations, or make the process so hideously complex and tied into a spurious sense …
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Cosmic Reactor is a new iPad title, currently in development by Interface 3, the educational games company based in Edinburgh. Cosmic Reactor has been designed for kids aged five upwards. The game promises to help push numeracy and literacy skills, as well as “an ensemble cast of quirky alien characters and fastest-finger reaction challenges. Multi-round gameplay will keep players …
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There's a new event in town. IN 2011, the first ever Turing Festival was held in Edinburgh. It was an eclectic blend of technology, digital media, design, interactive elements and featured some seriously good speakers (including your editor, at the last minute, after a VC fled...) Now the Turing Festival is back for 2012. The …
Following hot on the heels of the excellent interview with Reloaded Productions, the mighty VentureBeat has now covered Euphonious' new AudioSkins idea for Sonic Logos... Scottishgames.net even gets a tip of the hat as the source. We're very proud.