Developers, BAFTA Scotland needs your games. The 2015 BAFTA Scotland competition is now open for entries. The games category offers developers of all games released between 18th July 2014 - 2nd July 2015 are eligible. This includes all platforms - online (browser) games, mobile, tablet, console, PC, Mac, Linux, etc. It doesn't matter if games were …
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 …
Go Boldly – Distant Star: Revenant Fleet OUT NOW
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet is a brand new release from Edinburgh's Blazing Griffin. It is a real-time, space-strategy game for PC, featuring fleet-based combat, a dynamically generated galaxy, and an evolving narrative that creates a different experience every time the game is played. The company is positioning the game as a rogue-like meets strategy experience. …
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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 – Russian Front
Russian Front is a brand new WWII-themed strategy game for PC, Mac and Kindle Fire HD. Russian Front has been jointly developed by Electric Rune and HexWar and is released by Hunted Cow. The company is promising an iPad version of the game will be released in October 2014. Russian Front is Hunted Cow’s most ambitious …
Ludometrics’ Gridlock Now On Greenlight
Ludometrics has placed it's retrotastic four-gun-turreted arena-based shoot-em-up on Steam Greenlight. So you, the earth council for strategic space defence and laser-based death battles can vote on whether to prioritise the safety of mankind within a vast uncaring universe. If you've not been paying attention, Gridlock is an arena-based shooter that sees you take control of four …
OUT NOW – Nightmare Cooperative
Lucky Frame's The Nightmare Cooperative, the collaborative, co-operative, collective rogue-like dungeon crawler, is OUT NOW and we're frankly taking the afternoon off to go and play it. As we gushed when first we heard about the game, it's a turn-based rogue-like, with a unique co-operative twist. As you find new player characters in the dungeon, …
OUT NOW The Prettiest Ribbon
Snakes. On a cube. We missed this when it was originally released, but Scotland's Pocket Starship has found an original new twist on the classic and ubiquitous Snake. It's on a cube. You wind your way around each of the six sides and pick up food. Your snake gets longer. It's a simple twist, but …
OUT NOW – Gravity Games
Scottish independent game developer Neil Moody has just released a series of PC/Mac games based around the the concept of 'gravity'. There are seven game and two 'meta games' in the pack, all local multiplayer, designed for 2-4 players. Neil created the games for the makega.me 'series' pageant, which challenged developers to create several linked …
Minecraft Sells 54M Copies – Consoles Lead The Way…
Another week, another post about Minecraft achieving mind-blowing success and creating ongoing joy. Following the awards, the number one slots, mapping the whole of Denmark (really) and the sales, oh so many sales, comes news that Minecraft, continues to confound the critics with... even more sales and success. The big news this time round is …
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