Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
One Thumb Mobile, the development studio in central Glasgow has been working on its first original project for quite some time now. If you've been at any of the creative events over the last few months and were lucky enough to run into the OTM team, you might have been given a sneak peek at …
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Ladies & Gentlemen, please welcome a new company to the happy, hard-working Scottishgames family. Huzutech is based in Glasgow and is the creator of a new technology which allows online, browser-based virtual worlds to be developed. Aimed at the social and casual end of the gaming market, Huzutech works with brand and intellectual property (IP) …
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The good news keeps on coming today. Glasgow's Chunk Games has been featured in today's SUN, in a feature on the rise of casual games and how a game is actually put together. Chunk has even built a flash game for readers to try, in which the infamous Sun Bus, makes it way through Paris, …
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The games industry is changing and evolving very rapidly right now. New platforms, new routes to market, new business models, new consumers all mean new opportunities for development studios. Finding new ways of doing business, or identifying these new opportunities can be difficult, when the industry is changing around you, which can leave some developers …
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Last week's viral video hit - in the games world at least - was the gripping trailer for Deep Silver's forthcoming zombie survival game, Dead Island. Over the weekend we received confirmation from our friends at Axis Animation in Glasgow that they are the company behind the animation. Directed by Axis owner and director, Stuart …
The Scottish arm of the global games jam is GO. And is... progressing? Keep up to date with the latest from the competition here.
2011 promises to be quite the creative wonderland for game designers and developers. Anything which encourages new talent, new games and more innovation gets our whole-hearted support. The first development-related event of 2011 is rapidly heading our way. The 28th of January marks the start of this year's Global Games Jam - a worldwide game …
UPDATED - Now includes Firebrand and Triple B Games... “Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the rest of the play?” Any review of the games and gaming sector in Scotland in 2010 is going to be a little like reviewing the Titanic's first cruise. No matter how impeccable the service, or exquisite the canapes, …
Chucking snowballs used to be considered good, healthy fun. Wrap the kids up warm, kick them outside and as long as nothing serious got broken, it was a big win all round. Now, however, you get Daily Mail complaining, Police handing out ASBOs like they're crackers and children as young as two being banged-up for …
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The jolliest little elf in Santa's workshop has come through for your favourite Scottish gaming resource once more. Stewart 'Stu' Hogarth is back once again - like a renegade dancer (not the reindeer) and is once more keeping it defiantly old school. Look upon the C64-inspired banner loveliness and send your Christmas wishes Stewart's way, …