Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is a prestigious student based competition, celebrating the best student start-ups across three categories: Innovation World Citizenship Games Pixel Blimp, formed by students from the University of Abertay, went on to win the regional finals and placed 2nd in the national finals which were held at UCL London in April 2014. Only …
OUT NOW: Me And The Giants Kids Games Hit Windows
Me And The Giants, the game and app developer specialising in content for kids has released its back catalogue of educational game for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The company has released two of its app collections for Windows users: Tolva and Ting, a collection five neon-coloured, educational games and apps for pre-school children, featuring the …
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OUT NOW: XBL Gamerhub App
XBL Gamerhub is a social network for Xbox Gamers, allowing them to organise online events, find friends, blog, upload images and video and generally make the most of their Xbox gaming experience. The company has pulled in thousands of players from around the world and has already caught Microsoft's eye with it's enthusiastic and unique …
KoduKup Scotland Launched
Kodu Kup is a coding competition open to UK school children aged between 7 and 14 years old. Kodu Kup Scotland is a sister competition to the UK Kodu Kup designed to work with the larger competition, taking Scotland's different term times into account. The competition has been organised and run by David Renton, a Microsoft …
Microsoft Recruiting Gaming Ambassadors
Games students - Microsoft needs you.  The company is recruiting 20 windows games ambassadors at universities across the UK. The role involves setting up partnerships between local developers and student bodies, organising events and supporting gaming competitions. Microsoft is promising that the job won't take more than 12 hours per month and that special consideration will …
UNITY Porting Day – Glasgow – 29th March
Microsoft, Nokia and Unity are hosting a series of Porting Days across the UK, with one taking place in Glasgow on Saturday 29th of March at the Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design Studio, at The Hub, Pacific Quay. Attendees will receive a token for free registration to the Microsoft App Store. Â According to Microsoft: …
Squares Of Black Space – OUT NOW
Physicists, astronauts, quantum tunnelers, renegade cosmologists and evil galactic overlords, rejoice! Â Squares Of Black Space: Alpha Square, the new release from Pixel Sword, is out now. Â Now you can do battle with the very fabric of spacetime itself, hold back the darkness and ensure the universe, the multiverse, indeed, the WSOGMM continues to exist. The …
The All New XBLGamerhub
The all new, totally redesigned and redeveloped XBLGamerhub.com is now LIVE and online. The site - a community for Xbox 360 gamers is one of the largest out there. Â Since it was launched in 2009, it's grown to include over 16,000 community members, 7000 Twitter followers and 5000 Facebook likes. The site was created by …
Minecraft On PlayStation 3 Breaks Million Sales Barrier
A new year, a new record for Minecraft. Â Gamesindustry reports that the brand new PlayStation 3 version of the game, released just before Christmas 2013 (December 17th to be precise), has already sold over 1 million copies - in about six weeks. Even Mojang themselves seem startled by the game's huge impact, with the company's …
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Indies Flock To Xbox One… Scotland Missing?
News hit the games media yesterday that Microsoft has been signed deals with a number of well known indie studios around the world. Â 32 studios from Japan to Finland are named, including many best known for their mobile titles.Sadly no studios from Scotland appear to have made the list. Â Developers including Vlambeer (Ridiculous Fishing), Half …
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