All 4 Games, Channel 4's mobile publisher today released Super Arc Light, the first title from new Scottish studio No Code. The game is a stylish radial arcade shooter, which means players must spin around a central axis and blast incoming enemies into tiny shards of glowing particles. This is, of course, not nearly as …
OUT NOW – Rituals
For the last several months we've brought you news and updates for a game known as The Official. A mysterious, deliberately low-polygon 3D world, set inside a banal, but somehow creepy office block where... you just know something peculiar is going down. Since then the game has been updated, completed and now released, with a …
OUT NOW – Let’s Go Rocket
Cobra Mobile is perhaps best known for the studio's popular iBomber series, which encompasses two top down destruct-em-up bombing games (iBomber 1 & 2), a twin-stick blast-em-up (Attack) and a couple of truly excellent tower defence (em-up) games (Defense & Defense Pacific). For its latest release Cobra has abandoned the war-torn battlefields of WWII and …
Jobs, Games, News, MORE
Ladies and gentlemen, the goal of the Scottish Games Network has always been to be of utility to the games sector as a whole. A tool if you will, which pulls together all of the latest news, information and data for Scotland's games sector. Since the start of the year, for a couple of reasons …
Monstrum – Out Now
Monstrum, the highly-anticipated, trouser-foulingly-frightening, procedurally-generated survival horror game from Dundee's Junkfish has gone live on Steam and the Humble Store. The game is on early access, allowing the developers to gather feedback from players, during the final stages of development. Initial signs are promising. Early reviews and feedback have been very positive with both gaming …
OUT NOW – ZenTorii
The wonders of nature, the nature of existence, the existence of nature. All of these things and more - or less - are the focus of a new interactive experience released by RamenSoft, a team of second year students from Abertay University. Zentorii was created in conjunction with industry veteran, official SGN chum and occasional …
Outplay’s Bite Size App For Swingers
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 – Sky Patrol For iOS
Beartrap Games' arcade action aircraft shoot-em-up Sky Patrol has hit the Apple App store, bringing a new twist to the classic vertical scrolling blaster. Featuring more weapons than an American airbase, more boss battles than life in a particularly fractious corporation and more levels than a really weird Christopher Nolan film, Sky Patrol brings good …
2014 – A Year In Releases
2014 was a strange year for the Scottish games industry. The number of companies in the country shrank slightly (to around 85) and the number of games released also decreased to around the same number - 85, down from 2013's 93 releases. The diversity of the releases increased however, from the next generation versions of …
OUT NOW – Dueling Wizards
Dueling Wizards is the latest release from Scotland's Cog Mobile. Based in Fife, the company develops apps and games for commercial partners. Dueling Wizards however is an original new title, which puts the player into the curly toed shoes of a hard-bitten, spell-slinging sorcerer, facing off against wicked wizards and assorted enchanted enemies. Players must …