While Microsoft's Xbox One reveal soaked up the headlines this week, another announcement from a games technology company could mean an awful lot more to Scotland's game development community (and it is a community). Unity is the development platform of choice for a growing number of studios, as it allows a game to be developed …
YoYo – Game Maker – Tizen – Beta
If the above headline doesn't mean a great deal to you, you may not be alone. It is good news however. It means that Scotland's YoYo Games is continuing to support future technologies and that the company's popular GameMaker platform (which, the company tells us, has now been downloaded over 5,000,000 times) could be at …
Light Hero Reduces Price, Adds $100,000 Incentive To Complete The Game
Light Hero, the deep space shoot-em-up, created by Edinburgh's Inceptional, is having an exciting week. The game's price point has just dropped - you can now pick the game up for £0.69 (0.99 US$ | 0.99 CAD | 0.79 € | 85 ¥ | 0.99 AU$)But that's not all. In a move bold enough for …
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New Company, New Game: Cutant Mutant Invasion From Flipware
We're always delighted to find out about a new company and working in and around Scotland's interactive sector. So please welcome Glasgow's Flipware and their first title, Cutant Mutant Invasion. The company was founded by former members of mobile development studios Tricast Media, creators of the first J2ME UI toolkit and Picsel Technologies, the developer …
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Inceptional’s Light Hero Blasts Onto iOS
Edinburgh's Inceptional hit the headlines late last year, with their initial release Save Santi, as well as news that the company was not the Hollywood movie, Inception. Now Inceptional is back with its second title, Light Hero, a defiantly retro-styled shoot-em-up (or 'shmup' if you want to sound like you're down with the gamers...), out …
Tag Games Opens Doors To Banned Hotel Vegas
The inclusion of a naked, pole-dancing prince of the royal household has caused Tag Games' latest title Hotel Vegas to be banned in the UK, according to the Dundee-based developer. Tag's latest title is a celebrity gossip and scandal driven management game, in which players take control of a celebrity-packed Vegas hotel, in which the …
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Cobra Releases Huge iBomber Attack Update
Cobra's latest title in the hugely successful iBomber franchise is the top-down, dual-stick blitzkrieg-em-up, iBomber Attack. The game appeared on the Apple App Store at the end of last year. It's attracted a swarm of positive reviews and an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 on iTunes. Now Cobra has let slip the …
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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 help increase the galactic population and the audience for the game, the team at Blazing Griffin have made the original …
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 mobile devices, digital distribution and online gaming have created new ways for developers and publishers to monetise their games - …
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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 ratings, averaging around 4.4 out of 5 stars. Now the studio has updated the game with a new seasonal version, …
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