Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
BAFTA Scotland has bent the rules slightly to recognise the incredible achievement of Rockstar North in the design and development of GTA V. The team will receive a Special Award For Excellence at the 2013 BAFTA Scotland Awards, which takes place in central Glasgow on Sunday 17th of November. Special awards are normally given to …
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Sick Kids Save Point is the country's biggest and most successful 24-hour charity gaming marathon.  Launched in 2010 in Edinburgh, the event has managed to raise over £50,000 for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.  In 2013 the event takes place on the weekend 11th-14th October, with hundreds of gamers from across the UK taking …
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Take 2, parent company of Rockstar Games has reported that GTA V has achieved the company's highest ever sell through sales revenues, with the game achieving $800M in global sales in the first 24 hours of release. This is a record for the GTA series, for Take 2 and may well be the highest day …
By any criteria, Grand Theft Auto is one of the most famous - and successful - video games franchises in the world. Â Since the initial game was released in November 1997, there have been seven major game releases, with 14 games in total, counting chapters and additional content. In total, the series has sold 125M …
Spong is reporting that Take Two has renewed the trademark registrations for Agent, the 1970s spy title, originally announced as a PS3 exclusive back in 2009. As Rockstar North are likely finishing up work on the soon-to-be-released GTA V (due September 17th), could this be a hint regarding their next project? Given the incredibly response …
Rockstar Games has announced that the much anticipated GTA V is due for release in Spring 2013. Â The game will be available for pre-order from November 5th. The game is currently in development at Rockstar North HQ in Edinburgh. Â Could this be the biggest selling GTA title yet? Â To date, the series has sold over …
When I was young, I used to have a recurring dream where I was falling. Books from the library, interpreting dreams, were of no use in telling me what it meant. I was falling upwards into the sky, pulled by a force towards something I couldn’t see. I knew it was there, some horrific thing, …
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Rockstar Games has announced that first information about the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto 5 (a trailer), will be released on the 2nd of November. You can find the official page over on the Rockstar Games website.
If you were in any doubt whatsoever, that the Grand Theft Auto games are really quite popular, the latest sales figures should clear that right up. GamaSutra reports that in a presentation to a financial conference yesterday, Take 2's Strauss Zelnick revealed the lifetime sales for a number of the company's leading franchises. The most …
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