Battle Dungeon is a brand new multiplayer, turn-based strategy game, from the team at Hunted Cow. Battle Dungeon offers a level of depth and complexity normally associated with PC-based strategy games, but optimised and designed for the latest generation of iOS devices - iPads, iPhones and iPods. The game allows players to put together a …
Ninja Kiwi Acquires Scottish Development Studio Digital Goldfish
New Zealand developer/publisher Ninja Kiwi, the company behind the hugely popular Bloons franchise, has acquired Dundee's Digital Goldfish. Digital Goldfish has worked with Ninja Kiwi for the last several years, creating the mobile versions of Bloons and Bloons Tower Defense, as well as their own original intellectual property. The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, was …
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Out Now – Gears Of Glory: Apex Ace
If there's one indie game we've been looking forward to over the last several months, it's Gears Of Glory. Â A technical top-down racer, the game offers players a more challenging experience than the normal zoomy, drivey, drifty type of arcade game. The handling needs to be learned, man. Â You need to spend some time figuring …
nWay – New Company From Realtime Worlds Founders
Inside Social Games has an exclusive interview with nWay, a new West Coast (as in USA) technology start-up created by names which will be familiar to many within the Scottish games industry. Tony Harman & Dave Jones are the CEO and CCO respectively, while COO Taehoon Kim ran Realtime's Seoul studio. nWay is working on …
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You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, GCH, FDG, UF, Inc Mnstrs, Ghsts, Zmbs VGC
Interactive Fiction is alive and well and being written in Scotland. Â Yes, the purest, most literate and graphically rich form of gaming has not died and been buried in an unmarked, unregarded grave, unmourned, dismissed and forgotten. If you're not 'au fait' (literally 'with brains') with Interactive Fiction, it's the old fashioned kind of game …
Denki’s New Game – Save The Day – Now LIVE!
Denki has been a little quiet since the release of Quarrel on Xbox Live. Â The company has been up to *something*, but nobody has really been sure what it is... At yesterday's Turing Festival gaming futures event, Managing Director Colin Anderson revealed exactly what the company has been up to. Â Denki is working with browser-based …
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APB Hits 1.9.0
The latest update for online Cops & Robbers crimefest, APB: Reloaded was uploaded over the weekend, adding new content, items and activities to the MMO. A new Joker distribution centre has been added to the game, while entirely new activities (and levels of activities) have been added to  the game's Fight Club mode, giving players …
Reloaded Games Merges With K2 Networks, Raises Funding, Expands Platform
Reloaded Games, the company behind the release of APB Reloaded has a whole chunk of news to announce today... First of all, the company has completed its merger with K2 Networks, with the new organisation focused behind the Reloaded Games brand. Â The development division will stay as Reloaded Productions, while the consumer site retains the …
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VentureBeat Covers APB: Reloaded
VentureBeat is rapidly becoming one of the most significant news channels for the games industry. Â It's not just funding, deals and finance, it now covers industry news from all areas of the rapidly evolving games world. The publication posted an interview with the team at Reloaded Productions over the weekend, in which GM Michael Boniface, …
Dead Genius Gilliamesque Music Battle Fury Title
The videogames sector has given rise to many well loved characters. Â From Mario and Sonic to Solid Snake, Lara Craft and that lady from Mass Effect , the industry is replete with memorable and unique personalities. However, you rarely get to play as dead genius composers, locked in mortal combat with your peers. Â Thankfully Wigs …
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