Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
Climax Studios, the British video game developer, headquartered in Portsmouth, has announced that it is opening a new facility in Edinburgh. Climax Studios Edinburgh is already recruiting for a variety of developer positions. Climax is best known for its work on titles such as Sudeki, Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. In 2021 …
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Researchers from the University of Glasgow are holding three workshops in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow, to explore new ways of working with IP within the games industry.
Blazing Griffin, the Edinburgh-based game development studio has announced that the company is expanding to incorporate film and post-production capabilities to the company. The company's ambition is to become one of the country's first truly transmedia creators, creating worlds and stories which span film, games, comics and more. The new film division will be run …
Developers! Student teams! Game development societies! In fact games makers of all descriptions! Here's a unique opportunity for you to work with on a whole range of new games - in a way you may never have considered... Last month we reported that Hunted Cow had signed a deal with American board game designer and …
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Hunted Cow, Scotland's secret games publisher and one of the country's biggest success stories, announced that it has signed a deal with American board game creators Victory Point Games. Victory Point Games is an award-winning games company, based in California. Victory Point started life as a historical war games company, but has expanded hugely to …
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Glasgow's Firebrand Games has been fairly quiet of late.  The Studio is the developer behind a whole range of driving games for large publishers, including TrackMania on Nintendo DS to Need for Speed: Undercover to Dirt 2 and Need for Speed: The Run on Wii and Nintendo 3DS. However the studio has been working on its …
Tsumanga Studios, the company behind the recently released Winx Sirenix Power and the forthcoming online title, based upon the same franchise, has been awarded EDGE funding, totalling £48,500. Tsumanga was one of eighteen companies to win EDGE funding and the only games/interactive entertainment company to win through to the final round. Graeme Harvey, the co-founder …
Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) is a something vital to every creative company - and especially every games company. Â Developers are either working on someone else's IP, or building their own. Â For real, long-term success, generating your own IP is crucial. Â It provides your company with real, long-term value and can - in some cases - …
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The University of Abertay in Dundee today launched The Code Bar, a new service which allows game prototypes created by students to be purchased by developers and publishers who wish to complete them and take them to market. The goal of the project is to unlock valuable intellectual property created by students at Abertay University and …
Tsumanga is a brand new game studio based in Glasgow. Â The company has been founded by Graeme Harvey and Elias Moubayed formerly of Huzutech. Tsumanga is focused on the creation of social and online massively-multiplayer games aimed at a younger audience of kids, tweens and teens. The company has signed a deal with Italy's Rainbow …
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