Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
In the 1980s there were legends about a video game called "Killswitch" that was cursed and, if played, it would kill everyone in the room - We've got a copy. And we're going to play it. Live. Playthrough - the interactive stage play about the cursed videogame Killswitch and the two people who play it …
Continue reading "PLAYTHROUGH – Experience A Cursed Video Game LIVE"
On Monday 12 October the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is hosting an event exploring the cross-disciplinary practice of performance and videogame design delivered by Dr Mon Bozdog
This weekend (20th–21st June), the UK games industry is calling on the British public to gather online to play and talk together in a united effort to tackle loneliness in the UK.   The PLAY & Talk weekend is taking place during National Loneliness Awareness Week and is part of the Department for Digital, Culture, …
Steel Media is the company behind the hugely popular Pocketgamer websites and which now owns the 148apps website too. Now the company has just announced the 2012 BEST APP EVER competition. As the name suggests, it is an awards competition, designed to find the world's best apps - across all platforms and formats. The competition …
This weekend is the third annual Sick Kids Save Point charity gaming marathon.  The event sees nearly 50 dedicated gamers across the country devoting an entire weekend to gaming, with the goal of raising money for the Edinburgh Sick Kids Foundation. First held in 2010, Sick Kids Savepoint has so far raised over £30,000 and …
One of the new companies to be listed on the paranormally comprehensive Company Directory list is a new developer/publisher based in Paisley. Â LinxOnline has just released its first title and bucking the trend of recent releases, it's for Android. Dot Game is pocket sized slice of retro gaming, which should take you straight back to …
Highway Hobo is the game formerly known as 'Bummer' aka, the Frogger type game featuring a drunken bum.  If that's not a premise that makes you immediately interested, then we don't know what will. Out now on the Android market (or Google Play as we must now call it), from the team at Braindead Ape, Highway …
Continue reading "Out Now – Highway Hobo – New From Braindead Ape"