Ninja Kiwi, the creator of the best-selling Bloons games, has been acquired for $142 Million by Swedish gaming giant MTG.
Ninja Kiwi Acquired for $142 Million
You Can Take My Life – But You’ll Never Take My Castle
In 2012 we named Scotland as the Tower Defence Game capital of the world. In 2021, is that still true...?
OUT NOW – Alien Creeps TD
Scotland has done quite well in the popular 'tower defence' genre in the last few years. Ninja Kiwi's monkey-based Bloons TD hit several Best Games lists, while Lucky Frame's Bad Hotel walked off with a BAFTA and Cobra's underrated iBomber Defense and iBomber Defense Pacific were classics of the genre. Now there's a new kid …
Coming Soon – Alien Creeps TD
Dundee's Outplay has a new game in production. Alien Creeps TD is a classic tower defence game, in which players must defend the Earth against ravening hordes of heavily-armed, or possibly heavily-tentacled alien warriors, bent upon destruction and conquest. Earth forces are not unarmed themselves. Players command an arsenal of weaponry, created by mankind for …
OUT NOW – Crystal Reign
Crystal Reign is the latest release from Elgin interactive powerhouse Hunted Cow. Created by Dundee's Criss Cross Games, Crystal Reign is a literal tower defence title in which players must build and defend their tower from swarms of armed enemies. Players must build their tower using different offensive and defensive layers to help survive and destroy swarms …
Bad Hotel Meets Android. OUT NOW Flee You Fools!
"Blue Hotel," sang honey-voiced American crooner and presumed Black Lodge prisoner, Chris Isaak, "on a lonely highway" [Chris Isaak: Blue Hotel, from the album Chris Isaak, 1986, Warner Bros, Erik Jacobsen]. The man clearly knew his potatoes, though perhaps not the intricacies of the hospitiality industry, as a blue hotel - a hotel which was …
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COMING SOON: Planet Rush New From Red Radiant & Hunted Cow
Hunted Cow's progress from obscure development studio to publishing behemoth is continuing. The latest studio to sign a publishing agreement with the Elgin empire is Dundee's Red Radiant Media. The companies will be bringing an original new title, Planet Rush to iOS and Android later this year. While initial details are scarce, Planet Rush sounds like …
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Sky Without Sun: Target – New From Made With Numbers
Made With Numbers is a one man band, a company formed by veteran games programmer Alexander Illes, who decided that working on his own projects would be a fine idea. Alex has since worked on a game framework for future projects, alongside his first commercial release - Sky Without Sun: Target. Sky Without Sun: Target …
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New Company, New Game: Cutant Mutant Invasion From Flipware
We're always delighted to find out about a new company and working in and around Scotland's interactive sector. So please welcome Glasgow's Flipware and their first title, Cutant Mutant Invasion. The company was founded by former members of mobile development studios Tricast Media, creators of the first J2ME UI toolkit and Picsel Technologies, the developer …
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Scotland – Mobile Tower Defence Capital Of The World…
It's Christmas. So for games sites with less dedicated editorial staff and a surfeit of lovely news, it means that it's time for round-ups, top tens and lists of the best [x] game(s) of 2012, where [x] is a genre, platform, or sub set of those based upon the site's own focus. IGN is leading …
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