Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
As the headline makes entirely clear, the closed beta period for APB: Reloaded is now open for players to sign up. Â Submit an e-mail to Gamer's First and sign up for a player account and you'll be considered for the beta. According to the APB Reloaded blog: So far we have received about 20,000 emails …
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A quick reminder to game developers out there that this Friday (14th January 2011), NESTA is holding an open meeting to discuss plans to create a consortium to 'take products direct to market'. Or to create a developer-driven publisher in other words. Taking place at the DCA in Dundee, the meeting is the only one …
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Zombies are, to be fair, a perfect subject for videogames. They're slow moving, pitiless and you can machine gun, burn, explode, chop or otherwise mutilate them without mercy, since they're already undead. However, some zombie horror can be a little... grim. Brains and guts everywhere. Limbs flying in all directions and a screen which ends …
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2011 promises to be quite the creative wonderland for game designers and developers. Anything which encourages new talent, new games and more innovation gets our whole-hearted support. The first development-related event of 2011 is rapidly heading our way. The 28th of January marks the start of this year's Global Games Jam - a worldwide game …
UPDATED - Now includes Firebrand and Triple B Games... “Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the rest of the play?” Any review of the games and gaming sector in Scotland in 2010 is going to be a little like reviewing the Titanic's first cruise. No matter how impeccable the service, or exquisite the canapes, …
Happy 2011 readers. We hope you all had a fun holiday season, with cake, presents, alcohol (where permitted), tiny foolish hats and an occasional cracker. To celebrate the start of a fresh, lithe, hopeful new year, we'd like to present you with a brand new banner, reflecting the best parts of the new year in …
Chucking snowballs used to be considered good, healthy fun. Wrap the kids up warm, kick them outside and as long as nothing serious got broken, it was a big win all round. Now, however, you get Daily Mail complaining, Police handing out ASBOs like they're crackers and children as young as two being banged-up for …
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Doctor Who's first mobile gaming adventure - the Mazes Of Time - created by Tag Games, is now available for iPhone and iPad in the Apple App Store. In his very first mobile game outing the Doctor and his sidekick Amy Pond must rescue a family abducted from deep space by the Daleks. As you’d …
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Play2Improve, the company behind FPS Trainer, the new online service which teaches gamers to compete more effectively in online FPS games, is holding it's public world premiere on MONDAY 20th December, at HMV's Gamerbase on Princes Street in Edinburgh... FPS Trainer, the brand new online service which combines sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based coaching technology with …
Teka Teki, the latest release from YoYo Games promises a Tetris-style puzzle game in which players have to place food tiles in groups so that the adjacent animal tiles can scoff them in as large a group as possible. The larger the groups, the bigger the combos. If you're not convinced, there's a Lite version, …