Reach For The Distant Star
Edinburgh’s Blazing Griffin is hard at work on a reboot, remake, redux or reimagining on their turn-based space strategy game, Distant Star. The new version is due out in next next few months, but to …
TIGA Investigating Impact Of Piracy On Digital Developers And Publishers
Piracy has been a part of the games sector since the early days of the home computer revolution. Things have moved on since the surreptitious trading of cassette tapes in school playgrounds. The advent of …
Two Fat Ladies Help Binary Pumpkin Grab Valentine By The Balls
Dundee’s premier fruit-based development studio, Binary Pumpkin has been enjoying a a great deal of success with their inaugural game, Pumpkin Bingo. The game’s had over 50,000 downloads on Google play and has over 2000 …
FanDuel Secures $11M Of Investment
Edinburgh’s FanDuel, the fantasy sports betting company has raised $11M of investment from a variety of venture capital funds including Scotland’s Pentech and Comcast Ventures, the VC affiliate of Comcast Corporation). Other participants were existing …
Food Run out today on iOS – Forget Meals on Wheels, Pixels On Toast serves up Eggs on Legs.
Out today on iOS, quirky platformer Food Run comes from Edinburgh based one-man-developer Pixels On Toast, also known as Kevin Ng. With Rockstar Games, EA and Warthog sitting happily on his CV, Ng formed Pixels …
Scotland – Mobile Tower Defence Capital Of The World…
It’s Christmas. So for games sites with less dedicated editorial staff and a surfeit of lovely news, it means that it’s time for round-ups, top tens and lists of the best [x] game(s) of 2012, …
Develop Magazine Publishes Scottish Regional Focus
In the most recent issue of Develop, the industry magazine for the creators of video games, there’s a regional focus piece looking at the games sector in Scotland. The piece pulls in quotes from a …
One Thumb Mobile Expanding Into New Office Space For Ongoing Recruitment
One Thumb Mobile is one of the country’s most experienced mobile developers. Based in central Glasgow, the company has worked with some very large licenses, media and entertainment companies to produce branded games and apps …
Best. App. Ever. Yours?
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, …
Apple’s App Store Hits 1,000,000 Apps
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 …