Tag Games has announced the creation of a new, non-gaming app brand. Tag Apps reflects Tag's increasing expertise in the wider app market, where they have created various forms of app for companies including Channel 4 and Virgin Atlantic. An increasing number of companies are now turning to the various app markets and looking for …
NEoN Knights Hit Dundee
Something called NEoN Knights is now alive and kicking in Dundee. Utilising QR codes, NEoN Knightsis part game, part exploration, part virtual reality, part, umm, experience we guess... Created by the very talented chaps at Superfly, there's an Xbox 360 at stake for those brave enough to participate. We'll let them explain things a little …
YoYo Games Expands – Meet The Team
YoYo Games clearly has an 'agenda'. The company released it's first two iPhone games in as many weeks (or three if you count the iPad separately) and is in the process of telling the world how to publish games through YoYo. Now the company has expanded, fairly rapidly, with a whole new team line-up now …
Hot Air Bloon – New From Digital Goldfish
It's an iPhone release frenzy this week for the Scottish development companies. Digital Goldfish, the company behind the iPhone version of the smash-hit Bloons, has released the latest game in the franchise: Hot Air Bloon. The AppStore itself is less than forthcoming with background on the game, but we prised a little more detail out …
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AppJam & AppConference – LIVE
Over in Dundee's famous Discovery Point, the first International AppConference and AppJam are taking place. The conference has a full line-up of speakers across all the various app platforms and covering everything from games, to lawyers, publishers and possibly even a platform owner (one of which per day may keep a doctor away - the …
FPS Trainer – New Company Offering ‘Online Games Coaching’
Play2Improve is a new company, based within Abertay University, which is focusing on using games technology to help people learn. The company's first project is an online coaching service called FPS Trainer. FPS Trainer offers players of all ability levels the chance to learn the basic skills needed to play First-Person-Shooter games online against other …
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New Xbox Dashboard Marginalising Indie Games?
The update to the Microsoft Xbox dashboard over the last week has caused concern in indie gaming circles. Many developers worried that moving the Indie Games from the Games Store section to the new 'Specialty Shops' - which also includes features such as avatar customisation - is marginalising the emerging indie games market and making …
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Newsround – Thursday
Another day, another grab-bag of fascinating gaming tidbits from around this social network we call the Internet. Good afternoon and here are today's headlines... GameCity - The UK's most 'idiosyncratic' games festival (it sounds so good we want to cry [GameSetWatch] 4.4 million tablet devices sold in the last quarter alone [Edge Online] Crossover - …
YoYo Games Releases First iPad Game – Maddening
YoYo Games is clearly not a company to rest on its laurels. Following the release of Skydiver Mach II, the company's first iPhone/iPod game at the end of October, YoYo has now released it's first iPad game, Maddening. The App Store is less than forthcoming with the details, but according to the YoYo Games website: …
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Culture Minister Criticises MPs Attitudes Towards Games Business
Ed Vaizey, the UK's Minister for culture, media and sport has attacked MPs general lack of understanding regarding videogames and the industry behind them, reports GamesIndustry.biz. Appearing before the Scottish Affairs Committee, examining the subject of tax breaks for the games industry, Labour MP Ian Davidson remarked that Mr Vaizey "...ought to be concerned about …
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