Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Please welcome a new development studio to your friendly, futuristic Scottish Games Network. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Binary Pumpkin. Alongside the appropriately awesome name, the company was founded by two veterans of the games business. Lol Scragg and Bruce McNeish were two of the founders of Cohort Studios and have worked on a …
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Steel Media is the company behind the hugely popular Pocketgamer websites and which now owns the 148apps website too. Now the company has just announced the 2012 BEST APP EVER competition. As the name suggests, it is an awards competition, designed to find the world's best apps - across all platforms and formats. The competition …
From yesterday's Venturebeat: Apple's App Store has hit the 1,000,000 apps mark, according to social app discovery company Appsfire, with more than 30,000 Apps being submitted to Apple each and every month. The App store launched in July 2008. In October 2012, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that over 35 BILLION apps had been downloaded …
Avast, shipmates. A tot o' rum all round and cease yer keel-hauling of the cabin boy. A shiny new version of Outplay's popular treasure matchin' Facebook title, Booty Quest, has hove into view for them new Apple and Android gadgets and now you can shiver your timbers on the go. OK, enough piratism. Booty Quest was …
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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 …
Tracer is a brand new title from Dynamo Games for iPad - and very shortly - your other favourite iOS devices. Then Android, just to make sure everyone is happy (bar Blackberry users of course, but there's no helping some people...) Tracer draws inspiration from classic arcade titles such as Qix and Xonix, taking players …
One of the new companies to be listed on the paranormally comprehensive Company Directory list is a new developer/publisher based in Paisley. LinxOnline has just released its first title and bucking the trend of recent releases, it's for Android. Dot Game is pocket sized slice of retro gaming, which should take you straight back to …
Highway Hobo is the game formerly known as 'Bummer' aka, the Frogger type game featuring a drunken bum. If that's not a premise that makes you immediately interested, then we don't know what will. Out now on the Android market (or Google Play as we must now call it), from the team at Braindead Ape, Highway …
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The Courier has helpfully pointed out that several Scottish companies are attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. It just lists the ones from Dundee and Fife however. Outplay, Tag, YoYo and Zendit are all highlighted, though there are 21 Scottish companies attending the event. From The Courier: A contingent of 21 …
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Digital Goldfish, the studio behind the hugely popular iOS versions of the Bloons series of games are celebrating a phenomenal start to 2012 with news that the latest game in the series - Bloons 2 - is riding high in the iPhone App Store charts and has had a very successful Christmas indeed on the Nintendo …
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