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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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
"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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
The studio formerly known as Digital Goldfish - and which is now known as Ninja Kiwi (Scotland) - has released the latest title in the monkey-based pop 'em up, Bloons series. Bloons TD 5 is a 'tower defence' game. Players must defend themselves against wave after wave of maurauding, every-so-angry balloons, which are determined to... Continue Reading →
We are, of course, entirely objective here at Scottishgames. We love all of the developers and games companies in Scotland without favouritism or preference. There are a few companies though, who do get us quite excited when we hear they're working on a new game. We were lucky enough to see Bad Hotel in development, during an... Continue Reading →
