Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Steven Mair Becomes The UK's First Gamer-in-Residence After Games for the Weans Campaign Raises Over £100,000 Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity (GCHC), in conjunction with partners Devolver Digital and Neonhive, is delighted to appoint (the awesome) Steven Mair as its first-ever GCHC Gamer-in-Residence role at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, the first full-time role of …
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Do you work in the Scottish videogames industry? A new Scottish Game Workers Survey is looking for your help. A researcher at the University of Glasgow is surveying to gain a deeper understanding of the experiences, challenges, and opportunities within the industry. This brief five-minute survey will ask questions about your experience of work – …
Apartment Story is a feature-length, single-player, third-person thriller set in a single apartment, created by Glasgow-based Blue Rider Interactive. According to the game's official website: You are Arthur, a person alive in 2023 trying to keep his head above water, when you receive an unexpected call at the door from your old roommate, Diane. She …
The next meeting of the Cross-Party Group For Scotland's Games Ecosystem will take place on November 18th 2024 at Glasgow University's Advanced Research Centre (ARC) from 13:00 - 15:00. Co-chaired by MSPs Clare Adamson and Michael Marra, the Cross Party Group (CPG) provides a platform to build a sense of unity for games in Scotland. …
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Get ready for the Scotland-wide games industry Hub Quiz Autumn 2024 courtesy of our friends at Hubworld. Coming to Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Hub Quiz (and you have to love the name...) is open to games industry folks at all levels for a cross-country week of questions. Teams up to a maximum of six …
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Shaping the Future of Games Education “Dear industry, what do you really want from education?” The Scottish Games Education Symposium 2024 (SGES) is thrilled to announce the date, location, and focus of its highly anticipated 2024 event. Taking place on November 27th, 2024, from 9:30 AM to 4 PM, the symposium will be sponsored and …
The Ada Scotland Festival is back for its fifth consecutive year, running from the 1st - 11th October 2024. The festival champions gender balance in tech and computing, providing inspiration for young people and building a stronger, fairer, more diverse workforce for the future. Volunteers Wanted This year, the team behind the festival would like …
Reforged Studios, a new publisher founded by Scottish videogames veterans, has today revealed its first two acquisitions Ground Shatter and Glasgow-based Extra Mile Studios, with others to be announced later in the year. Reforged Studios is a new breed of hybrid developer/publisher that empowers the studios it acquires to continue crafting great games whilst adding …
Scotland's First Large-Scale Blockchain/Web 3 Event Blockstart Scotland, the country’s first large-scale Web3 event is taking over the Barras Art & Design (BAaD) in Glasgow on August 1st and 2nd, 2024.The event organisers are promising a "kaleidoscope of Web3 topics!" Covering high-level topics including governance and enterprise, Blockstart Scotland will also explore games, sports, music, …
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Glasgow-headquartered Axis Studios, the animation and VFX company responsible for some of the most successful game cinematics of all time entered administration, with 162 people made redundant. On July 15 2024, Alistair McAlinden and Geoff Jacobs of Interpath Advisory were appointed administrators, and while all production has ceased, Interpath is looking for operators to continue …
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