Tickets Going Fast For UKIE Scotland Launch Event

If you’re in central Scotland on March 27th (next Tuesday), you owe it to yourself to come along to the first UKIE Scotland event focusing on accessing finance. Key speakers include Jo Twist and Andy …

Survey – Grown Up Gaming

It’s request time, readers.  Anthony Reynolds from Glasgow University is looking for people to help his research into gaming culture and mature content in videogames.  It’s not another survey into violent games = violent behaviour. …

Sic Transit Gloria TEAM – Consolevania Remembered

Because it’s important, dammit…  A misty-eyed Cara Ellison from Square-Go interviews a steely-eyed and chiselled Robert Florence on the legacy of Consolevania. If you’re not familiar with the Consolevania ‘thing’, well, you should be.  Thankfully …

Scottish Success With IGDA Scholarships

The Scottish chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has racked up a significant number of achievements over the last year.  They’ve organised a number of very well attended events and pulled in some …

Data Driven Analytics – What Social Games Do

The team at Huzutech in Glasgow posted a fascinating piece on the use of data analysis and metrics in the social gaming space on their blog last week. We checked it was OK to re-post …

Out Now – Guinness Word Records 2012 – Gamers Edition

The 2012 Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition has just been released and this year several members of official Scottishgames.net chums, Glasgow-based Ready Up were commissioned by Guinness as consultants. Dan Bendon researched and penned the …

Scottish Games Jam – Back, Bigger, Better, More

The Scottish Games Jam is the local outpost of the massive Global Game Jam – an annual competition which challenges teams to build an original new game in only 48 hours. Organised by the Independent …

Consolevania – Out Now On iTunes

In one of the most generous and artistically significant moves of the mobile age, the first two seasons of Consolevania, the ground-breaking Scottish videogames show, are now FREE to download on iTunes. This includes the …

Free Games

It would seem that the generosity of spirit, love and compassion which the games industry is famous for, is shining out like a beacon for Christmas 2011. A variety of developers have provided promo codes …

Channel 4 Appoints Colin MacDonald As New Commissioning Editor for Games

Just hit the newswires: Channel 4 announces the appointment of Colin Macdonald as its first Games Commissioning Editor. He will be based in Glasgow and report into Convergent Formats Commissioner Anna Cronin. Macdonald is a …