Hunted Cow, the Elgin-based Online Role-playing game specialist has launched a website to support the company's forthcoming game Eldevin. Eldevin is a browser-based massively-multiplayer role playing game (or MMORPG if you prefer). Elvdein is Java-based and features both Player-versus-Environment (PvE or doing stuff yourself) and Player-versus-Player (PVP or knocking lumps out of other people) gameplay. …
Celtic Heroes – New Mobile MMO From One Thumb Mobile
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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Please Welcome Huzutech – Online, Social, Community & Virtual Worlds
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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Hunted Cow Profiled In Aberdeen Press & Journal
You might not have come across Hunted Cow before now. The studio is based up in the frozen north of Elgin and works mainly upon browser-based MMO games, including Fallen Sword, SigmaStorm II and Gothador. The company recently picked up an exporter of the year award from the Moray Chamber of Commerce and has now …
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2010 – A Year In Gaming
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, …
New APB Owner Considering Scotland For European HQ?
The ongoing saga of APB continues, with GamersFirst telling GamesIndustry.biz they may well consider creating a European HQ and Scotland is one of the locations they're looking at: In the event that a number of ex-staff were contracted and the relaunched game proved successful, it was possible that a Scottish office could be opened. "Absolutely. …
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APB Sale To Pay Outstanding Wage Claims + Interview With New Owner
Last week's sale of APB to K2 Network, will allow Begbies-Tryanor, the administrator of Realtime Worlds to settle all outstanding wage and holiday pay claims, according to the latest report from GamesIndustry.biz. Paul Dounis from the liquidator is quoted as saying: "We are obviously very happy to have concluded the sale but at the same …
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APB Bought By K2 Network For £1.5 Million
Realtime World's short-lived online game APB (All Points Bulletin) has been acquired by K2 Network, the company behind the GamersFirst online multiplayer site. GamesIndustry reports that K2 paid around £1.5 million for the game, which may be back online before the end of 2010. If the game is revived, it is likely to use a …
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