Prior to this weekend's festival of games-related recruitment opportunity and wonder, Dundee's own venture-backed social gaming outfit Outplay Entertainment is looking for a variety of summer interns. Covering roles from art and programming through to community management, marketing and data analysis, there's something for everyone. The words 'talented' and 'creative' were mentioned, which certainly covers …
Bigpoint Signs Deal With GamesAnalytics
Edinburgh's Games Analytics have signed a deal with Bigpoint, the German-based online games publisher. The deal will integrate Games Analytic's Predict platform into Bigpoint's games. This will allow Bigpoint to analyse and predict user behaviour. They can use this information to enhance the user experience, personalise games and increase retention rates and revenues. Games Analytics …
Relaunch: Digital Goldfish Online!
Everyone's favourite tangerine coloured, mobile game type, non-analogue, low maintenance, pet themed development studio, Digital Goldfish has had quite a good couple of years, thank you. The company's work on the massively popular Bloons franchise has gone from strength to strength, while DG's original content and other branded games have also started to gain traction …
Coming Soon – Cult Leader
There's a new team in town - and they're refined, elegant and every inch the sort of gentlemen we need in this hectic, hurly-burly world of videogaming larks. Two Monocle Games is a new studio focusing on the creation of social games for networks including the current market leader, Facebook, as well as up-and-coming …
Out Now – Word Trick For iOS
Word Trick, Outplay Entertainment's first title for Apple iOS is now live on the App Store in the US, UK, Canada and Europe. The game is new take on the classic board game formula. Players take it in turns to make the highest scoring words they can from a selection of eight letters. The board …
Cobra Tantalises With Coming Soon Creative
Whatever will they think of next? Cobra has started promoting a forthcoming game - BEFORE IT'S EVEN RELEASED! Their so-called promotion will be looked upon by the wider industry with the greatest disapprobation and their concept will be stolen, pirated and released upon the lawless streets of the world before they can draw breath. Will …
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Data Driven Analytics – What Social Games Do
The team at Huzutech in Glasgow posted a fascinating piece on the use of data analysis and metrics in the social gaming space on their blog last week. We checked it was OK to re-post the piece here and present, for your pleasure and delight, Huzutech on social gaming and designing by data analysis... You …
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STV Gazes Into The Future – Of Games!
The local chapter of STV popped into the Dundee HQ of Outplay Entertainment earlier this week to take a look at what the company's working on and ponder the ongoing evolution of the games business. Superstar reporter Holly Hamilton spoke to senior producer Tone Brennan and a handsome passerby to ask how the industry has …
Sh, Sh, Sh… Sh, Sh, Sh – Share Your Booty!
Outplay has clearly been borrowing some of Santa's elves, as the company has been a positive avalanche of news, information and updates in the last few weeks. With social gaming much in the media, thanks to Zynga's initial public offering (which is what IPO stands for, fact fans...) last week, Outplay has announced two new …
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Yo Deshi – Updated & Unleashed. There Is No TRY, Only DO…
Proper Games Yo Deshi has been given a major update and is now out for your favourite iOS devices. Yo Deshi now includes an online multiplayer and story mode, as well as features including: Online Multiplayer through Game Centre Local Two Player / Story Mode Configurable Boards Unlimited Tile Combinations Yo Deshi Training with Master …
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