Bite Size Games, the new new label for weeny games from Dundee's Outplay is continuing to pioneer and explore the stranger sides of mobile gaming content. For example, the label's first release, Pug Rapids, introduced players to a bizarre combination of water sports and dogging. Now with its second game, Bite Size aims to get …
OUT NOW – Shred It!
Shred It! is a brand new and original mobile game from Glasgow's EM Studios. It's a snow boarding title, challenging players to make their way down a really big mountain, avoiding obstacles, pulling tricks, collecting power-ups and looking cool. To keep things exciting, the course is procedurally-generated, so the obstacles and collectibles are always in new …
Booty Call – Pirate Party Seeks Mutinous Mariners In Crowd-Funded Cash Quest
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hiddenarmada/mutiny-16-player-dual-screen-pirate-mayhem-pc-mobi/widget/video.html Ahoy, shipmates. The scurvy crew at Hidden Armada have unleashed a broadside of much awesome in the form of a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their first game, Mutiny!. Mutiny! is a chaotic multiplayer pirate brawler - for up to SIXTEEN players - that lets you sail the 77 seas with a crew of your …
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Introducing Kobojo
There's a new studio in Dundee. For several months now, rumours of Studio X - a new developer, who would be recruiting and working on a game so secret that even GCHQ and the NSA had only a vague idea of it's key parameters. The new studio is now a reality. Kobojo is a French …
Games = 85% Of The World’s Top Grossing Apps
According to new research, the mobile app markets are dominated by games. Midia research, created a new report looking at the global app markets, discovered that out of the top 700 grossing apps, 84.9% are games. Social networking came next with a paltry 4.1%, then dating with 3.9% and navigation and travel accounting for only 2.3%. …
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Announcing the noPILLS Game Jam
Like the wider industry, game jams are evolving. A number of jams, hacks and codeathons in the last few years have moved beyond the idea of merely creating content in a ridiculously short space of time and have instead focused on using data in new ways, or crowd-sourcing news ideas to help solve specific issues. The …
Out Now – See Inside Guerilla Tea’s MIND
Maintaining their breakneck pace for the year, Dundee's Guerilla Tea has released another new and original title for multiple devices. Mind is a brain training game, created to give your synapses, neurons and ganglia the equivalent of a 60 x minute workout, followed by a refreshing shower and a whole food smoothie. The game features three …
Fly High And Huggy – Chunk Working With BBC On First Cross-Channel Game
The BBC has announced its first ever cross-channel game, Fly-High And Huggy for CBBC and CBeebies. The games will be available across PC, mobile and tablet. This is the BBC’s first brand designed to appeal to both CBeebies and CBBC audiences – bridging the gap between the two Children’s channels. The cross-platform games will be supported …
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Glasgow Mobile Breakfast Rises from Hibernation
Like a cute, unnaturally passive, animated bear with a calendar conflict, WeeWorld are opening their doors once more to developers and business leaders working in the mobile space to talk trends, tech and business with the rest of the industry in Scotland. TL;DR When? - Friday, 14th of March Where? - 19 Blythswood Square, Glasgow …
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OUT NOW – Gem Zap – From Made With Numbers
Made With Numbers, the Edinburgh-based independent development studio is back, with their new release Gem Zap. The game challenges players to zap matching gems with their Tesla coil. Â Zap three of a kind and additional time is granted. Â Zap 10 matching gems to reach the next level. Â You can see a sneak peek of the …
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