Dare To Be Digital 2013 – The World’s Biggest Game Creation Competition – Now Open For Entries

Dare to be Digital is BACK for 2013.  If you're a regular visitor to the Scottish Games Network, then you'll know we're big fans of the competition (disclaimer: the good people at Dare regularly ask your editor to get involved in some way(s) - speaking, presenting, mentoring or hosting the awards.  We're very proud...) Dare …

e-Placement And The Search For Interns

A new initiative has been launched by Scotland IS, urging businesses to offer paid work experience to students in the IT industry. The project, called 'Let's Get Paid', is run by e-Placement Scotland, and is a collaboration of three organisations including Edinburgh Napier University. In the first year of its development 1,500 students have registered …

Game To Learn – Scotland’s Largest Games Based Learning Event – March 17th-19th

Readers of this blog, as clever and pretty as they undoubtedly are, may not have come across the Consolarium before.  Describing itself as the 'Scottish Centre For Games & Learning', the Consolarium uses commercially available games - hardware and titles - within classrooms.  Side stepping the serious games sector and instead looking at how to …