The fair trade, rainforest certified, organically fed and free range Oompa Loompas at Denki's digital toy factory have clearly been inspired recently. The company has announced one new game, Monster Force 5, has just hit the market, with another, as yet undisclosed project lurking in the wings. Monster Force 5 is a new, original Denki …
OUT NOW: Pet Roulette – New From NevisTech
Names are important. Names are one of the first things that define your game. They help set the player's expectations and are a key marketing tool. Seriously. Choosing something too whimsical or esoteric and you can confuse and alienate your potential audience, or lose thousands of potential sales. So imagine our pleasure and delight in …
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Gentlemen Get Steamy In Front Of 65 Million
As is so often the case, author, wit and professional facial topiary caregiver Mark Twain put it admirably: I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. While this may have been appropriate …
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OUT NOW: Solar Flux Hits Steam
Solar Flux, the new game from Glasgow's Firebrand is a thing of beauty. Seriously. This is a game which looks GOOD. And plays like a dream... Unlike many of the more recent games set in the wide reaches of interstellar space and alien solar systems, Solar Flux makes space look the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring infinity it …
Get Steamy In A Bad Hotel With A BAFTA And 54 Million People
Picture the scene, you've checked in. You may be a spy, in town clandestinely to meet a contact, or kill some guy with a poisoned machete. You may be a married couple, yearning for the anonymous touch of hotel sheets, hoping like hell your husband/wife don't find out. You may even be a weary business …
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Out Now: GTA V – Scotland’s Largest Cultural Export Ever
Sixteen years ago, in November 1997, the original Grand Theft Auto was released for the PC and PlayStation One. Created by DMA Design in Dundee, the game achieved almost instant notoriety, followed by a growing audience which saw beyond the headlines and recognised that the game offered something different to most of the games available …
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Ludometrics Gridlocks Ouya
Ludometrics, the Glasgow-based studio behind titles including Bips, Pet Store Panic and Matching Set, has released its latest title - Gridlock - for the controversial OUYA console.Gridlock is an arena-based shoot-em-up in which the player takes charge of four (4) turrets. The goal of the game is to vaporise and pulverise a series of abstract …
OUT NOW: Gentlemen For PC/Mac
The superb, local-multiplayer duel-em-up Gentlemen from Edinburgh's Lucky Frame is OUT NOW for you lucky PC and Mac owners. The game is a Victorian-themed, bowler-hatted, multiplayer deathmatch, which in this incarnation pits two, three or four players against each other upon a single, blood-drenched device, Forsooth. Like all of Lucky Frame's titles, Gentlemen's glorious graphics …
OUT NOW: Solar Flux For iPad
Solar Flux, the original new sun-saving, gravity-defying, inertia-dampening, ufo-controlling game from Glasgow's Firebrand Games is now LIVE on the Apple App store. We saw the world-exclusive hands-on preview at last weeks Dare to be Digital Indie Games Showcase and it is eye-wateringly beautiful. Every level is centred around a huge, dying sun. The player has …
Sky Without Sun: Target – New From Made With Numbers
Made With Numbers is a one man band, a company formed by veteran games programmer Alexander Illes, who decided that working on his own projects would be a fine idea. Alex has since worked on a game framework for future projects, alongside his first commercial release - Sky Without Sun: Target. Sky Without Sun: Target …
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