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Thar’ll Be Dragons – Sexy Violent Dragons
The 2012 Edinburgh Interactive Festival has been notable thus far for the stealthy nature of its programming. There are wonderful things happening, but they've chosen not to share them with you until they've been buffed to a mirror sheen and had extra special sprinkles added. Now that glamour, and zest has been finalised and the …
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Golf Squared – Out Now For iOS
Golf Squared is the latest iOS title from the team at Dynamo Games. A radical 'punk' reinterpretation of Scotland's most royal, ancient, soporific and knitwear-enhancing sport, Golf Squared challenges players to knock a wee ball through a lush cartoon landscape. Square Golfers must avoid deadly cartoon peril, achieve near zen-like oneness with the ball and …
Red Menace Threatens Scottish Gamers
The chances are that you've not come across GameVial before. We're a fairly clued up and expert sort of channel and we were stunned, staggered and bewildered to sit next to them at the Cross Party Group on Videogames Technology and discover a whole new studio, right under our noses. It was exactly the sort …
BBC In Dundee – Games Special
For a recent episode of Show Me The Money, the BBC sent reporter the excellently-named-for-a-lead-action-hero, Jack Garland to Dundee to ponder the ongoing evolution of the games sector. Mr Garland mentions the collapse of RTW (again), before moving thoughtfully onwards to the rise of casual, social and mobile gaming. Digital Goldfish are shown, strolling, like …
BAFTA In Scotland Needs YOU
Regular readers of industry bible, Scottishgames.net will know that we're fans of BAFTA In Scotland. They're a good bunch, who do much to support the screen industries in Scotland and who are genuinely trying to incorporate more interactive and games content into their programme, as well as building up membership in the games sector. Membership …
Engage Invest Exploit 2013
Engage Invest Exploit is an event run by Edinburgh University's globally respected School of Informatics, which offers start-up companies the opportunity to showcase their work to an audience of investors, business experts (and your editor, since the rest of the media gives not a fig). It's an event which is often overlooked and tends to …
JOBS
We've just updated our JOBS page. Guess what we need? That's right. Vacancies, opportunities, internships. Mail us with... The position vacant A description of said vacancy Your logo The recruitment page on your website Bit of background on your company And we'll get something up asafp. Here's a thought - try to be interesting, clever, …
The Masques – Voiceovers, Narration, Characters, Tutorials & Awesome
A huge thanks to the team at The Masques for our recent banner. The Masques is a casting agency based in Edinburgh, which works with a wide range of actors (proper actors from film and TV). They also do a lot of corporate work, providing talented people who can do voices and act in other …
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All Change…
So you may have noticed the new theme on the http://www.scottishgames.net site. It's the first step in the ongoing evolution of the site as a force for all that is good and right and true in the rapidly evolving wide, wide world o' games. NOW for the FIRST TIME EVER you can find all of …