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 …
OUT NOW – Quick Slide
Dundee's Stand Out Games has released its latest title, Quickslide for Android devices. The game offers a new spin on the classic Christmas-cracker-em-up slidey squares type puzzle. You know the ones. It's a plastic square which contains 4 x 4 tiles upon which is printed a picture of a seasonal or humorous nature. Cunningly, one …
Introducing QUIJA
QUIJA READING GAMES is a twenty-page perzine created by Mitch Alexander that gives a brief insight into one person's perspective on the possible intersections of non-heterosexual+noncisgender life and games, discussing and exploring how game design, criticism, theory and play can be impacted by queer issues and vice versa. QUIJA READING GAMES is intended for any …
OUT NOW – Smash Doors
Opportunity. That's what comes a knocking at your door. You can seize fortune by the forelock or look a gift horse in the mouth, but not if it comes bearing gifts. How often have you heard, or used, or been needlessly confused by any of the above expressions? If you've anything like us, then it's …
Hunted Cow Unleashes Hell
Hunted Cow are back. After a fallow period of, oooooh, almost a fortnight, since the company's last release (Eldevin on Steam), Scotland's hardest working development studio is back with a brand new adventure. HELL is a turn-based fantasy game in which the players will take command of both factions in this epic confrontation between the …
OUT NOW – Seek – New From Five Pixels
Five Pixels is one of the winning teams from this year's Dare To Be Digital. Seek is their first game. It was released in early November and has already scooped a TIGA award for the Best Student Game. Seek is a first person game in which the player must find their friends, who are lost …
OUT NOW – Eldevin On Steam
The Hunted Cow team has quite a year in 2014. They've released a huge array of games, made deals with two board game manufacturers, increased their presence in the mobile market and generally been one of the most active AND high profile game developers (and publishers) in the country. They're showing no sign of slowing …
OUT NOW – SAS Zombie Assault 4
Zombies. They're everywhere. Rising from the dead, lurching around corners, falling to pieces (yet inexplicably failing to be eaten by starving dogs, packs of wolves or the more ubiquitous bacteria...) And of course, they're always, always looking for human flesh and/or brains. It's a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which many would become mad - and many …