OUT NOW: Blazing Griffin Partners with DC, Warner Bros. and Amazon Games to Launch Batman: Caped Crusader – Chronicles

BAFTA award-winning Glasgow studio Blazing Griffin has officially revealed its latest title: Batman: Caped Crusader – Chronicles. Developed in collaboration with Amazon Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and DC Studios, the game launches today, Friday 31 July 2026, exclusively on Amazon Luna’s GameNight platform. The release coincides directly with the global premiere of Season 2 of the animated series…

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Games Design Intern – V&A Dundee

V&A Dundee and Abertay University Announce One-Year Game Design Internship Applications are open for a dedicated V&A Dundee Game Design Intern, offering a recent Abertay University graduate a paid, one-year placement embedded within the museum's Learning department. The role - salaried at £26,299.55 - is designed to bridge academic game design expertise with public cultural programming, museum learning, and interactive exhibition design.

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Call for Games: Showcase Your Project at DCA Drop In And Play Dundee Session

Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) has issued a call for new and unreleased games to feature in its upcoming Drop In And Play session taking place this August. The free public showcase gives members of the community an opportunity to try out unreleased titles created by Scottish developers, while offering creators a fabulous opportunity to gather real-world player feedback. Public Feedback for Developers…

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OUT NOW: Masuku from Lowtek Games

Dundee-based Lowtek Games (aka Ally Low) has officially released his latest title, Masuku, on PC via Steam. A Nintendo Switch release is planned for later in the year. The abstract strategy puzzle game, designed for 1–4, tasks players with placing, rotating, and flipping cards on a grid to select or cover up specific colours and symbols to meet shifting rules and scoring objectives.

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Develop 2026 – Building The Interaction Economy

Develop: Brighton in a baking July is less of a conference and more of a multi-day endurance sport with more than games on offer. Having navigated this particular marathon for around twenty years now, I arrived prepared. The survival toolkit this year was simple: a ludicrous amount of Factor 50, a variety of killer shirts (shout out to BLAKE MILL…

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Immersive Audio-Visual Event ‘OPTIKA’ Set to Transform Glasgow’s SWG3 Next Month

This Is So Much More Than Games... Scottish creative technology and immersive arts studio SUUM has announced OPTIKA, a major new day-and-night celebration of digital art and electronic music taking place at Glasgow's SWG3 next month. The event will take over SWG3’s Galvanisers Yard on Saturday 25 July 2026 as part of the official Glasgow 2026 cultural and sporting programme surrounding the Commonwealth Games.

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OUT NOW: From Glasgow to the Hebrides: Ludus Pax Studios Launches Scottish-Inspired ‘Tiny Terra Spaces’

Glasgow-based solo developer Silviu Soare - founder of Ludus Pax Studios - is set to launch his third commercial title, Tiny Terra Spaces, today, Thursday, June 25, 2026. The cosy, stress-free island builder will be available on PC via Steam, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. Built over 13 months of intensive development, the game serves as a creative love letter to the geography, rich history, and natural beauty of Scotland's islands.

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GIGF26

The full line up for the third annual Glasgow Independent Games Festival has been announced including a World Premiere from the Bitloom Games - the studio behind Phogs. The Glasgow Independent Games Festival is officially set to take place on the 11th and 12th of July, in Glasgow’s Barras Art and Design (BAaD) building. This year's festival is set to take place over…

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Connecting the Ecosystem: Barclays Eagle Labs to Host Creative Industries Meet-Up in Glasgow Next Week

Creative businesses and games developers from across Scotland are being invited to connect, collaborate, and break down industry silos at a new cross-sector Media and Creative Meet Up networking event in Glasgow next week. Hosted by Barclays Eagle Labs, the Media and Creative Meet Up will take place on Thursday, June 25, from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM at Eagle Labs Glasgow.

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OUT NOW: Stormcloud Launches New Action-Platformer Junkster Across All Major Platforms

Dundee studio Stormcloud Games has officially launched its latest title, Junkster, today across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC. With Junkster, the team shifts gears (once again), delivering a vibrant, mechanics-driven 3D platformer centred around exploration, environmental clean-up, and a unique crafting/building system. Players control UM-13 (or UM for short), a specialised robot tasked with clearing up planetary debris, converting garbage into useful tools, and navigating hazardous terrain.

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The UK’s Secret Weapon. And Why We Keep It Hidden…

This week, the UK games industry is in Westminster. Meeting politicians. Making the case for investment, recognition and support. It's the right conversation. But in the wrong room. With the wrong map. And the wrong ambition. The UK has a secret weapon. A globally significant, internationally recognised, economically extraordinary capability in interactive technology that is already reshaping healthcare, education, defence, space exploration, urban design, data visualisation and financial services around the world.

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Playable Heritage: Major UK Conference in Edinburgh to Map the Future of Video Game Preservation

On Wednesday 16 September 2026, the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh will host a landmark event: Playable Heritage: Creating a Collaborative Framework for Collecting Video Game Culture. Co-hosted by National Museums Scotland, the National Library of Scotland, the National Videogame Museum, and Ukie, this free, one-day conference represents a major, coordinated attempt to build a UK-wide roadmap for digital preservation.

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The GTA Impact: Grand Theft Auto (& Hamlet) At SXSW London 2026

This week, the eyes of the global creative industries are focused on Shoreditch in London as the European edition of South by Southwest takes over the city. SXSW London has quickly established itself as a premier convergence of technology, music, screen, and interactive culture. On Thursday 4 June at 1:35pm, I will be taking the stage at Protein Studios…

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A Home for Play: National Museum Of Scotland Launches Public Survey For Permanent Games Exhibition

For years I have been asking the quesstion: How do we protect, preserve and celebrate Scotland's games heritage? The announcement of the recent videogame heritage PhD studentship in partnership with Abertay University, the University of Glasgow, and National Museums Scotland (NMS) was a massive step forward. Today, that momentum takes another major leap forward. National Museums Scotland has launched a…

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Games as Survival: GTMO 441 – TONIGHT

This evening, Thursday 28 May 2026, Dundee’s Biome Collective will host a public sharing of an extraordinary, Creative Scotland-funded residency project: GTMO 441: Games, Detention, Power. Taking place both in person at Abertay University and streamed live online from 5:30pm, the event offers a first look at experimental playable media shaped by the lived experience of Mansoor Adayfi, who was detained without charge at Guantánamo Bay for 14 years.

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Speculative Worlds: Cymera 2026 Is The Ultimate Fantasy Playground

Speculative fiction and game design have always shared a common heritage. If you examine the foundations of modern narrative design, the link to sci-fi, fantasy, and horror is obvious. In an era where players expect increasingly complex, system-driven storytelling, the ability to build cohesive and convincing worlds is one of the most valuable skillsets in game development. This is why I am pleased to highlight the return of…

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Beyond the Consumer Market: Bringing The More Than Games Message To Develop: Brighton 2026

The global games market in 2026 is more crowded, volatile, and competitive than ever before. For independent studios and established developers alike, relying solely on consumer retail success is becoming an ever-riskier strategy. That is why I am headed to Brighton this July to deliver a session on how developers can unlock entirely new, sustainable revenue streams by applying their creative and technical superpowers outside the entertainment sector and the consumer games market.

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Outplay Entertainment Announces First Steam Title, ‘Dark Corporate Roguelike’: The Incentive Programme

Outplay Entertainment, Scotland's largest independent developer and a global titan of casual mobile gaming, has officially announced its debut Steam title, The Incentive Programme. Known internationally for its free-to-play hits that have attracted over 250 million players worldwide across franchises including Angry Birds, Monopoly, and Gordon Ramsay, the Dundee-based studio is taking a bold new creative direction.

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Happy 21st Birthday SGN! From A Yahoo Group To A Unanimous Parliament (And The Architecting Of Scotland’s Interaction Economy)

Apparently, the Scottish Games Network is officially 21 today. If SGN were a person, that means we are a cool three years past our first legal pint, well over our wild teenage years, and firmly staring down the barrel of responsible adulthood. In games terms, twenty-one years is not just a milestone - it is roughly several geological ages. When SGN was born in May 2005, it was a purely social community.

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Beyond The Billions – Why the New UK UKIE/OKRE Impact Framework Proves Scotland is Already Ahead Of The Game

This week, Ukie and OKRE released a landmark report: Building a Unified Framework for UK Video Games Impacts. It is a significant piece of work that arrives at a critical moment for the country's entire games ecosystem. At a time when we are seeing a record-breaking consumer market valuation of £8.76 billion alongside ongoing sectoral shifts and volatility, the question of how we measure our true value has never been more urgent.

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Narrative Without Borders: SuperForest’s Little Bird Kickstarter Opens

The Scottish games ecosystem is about far more than just code and consoles. It is an industry built on the foundations of world-class storytelling and the ability to build immersive universes that can exist across multiple media. Which is why the latest project from the Edinburgh-based studio SuperForest is so interesting. The studio has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Little Bird…

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I AM: Indie Arcade Moray – Games, Developers, Talks All Wanted

Elgin has long established itself as the most (we think) northerly games hub in the UK. As the home of the excellent Moray Game Jam, the internationally successful Hunted Cow, and the specialised engineering team at Code Wizards, the region has a deep-rooted history of digital creativity - and a community of beautiful people. Now, that ecosystem is set to expand with the launch of a new public-facing event: the…

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The Billion-Pound Ghost: Why Project Pathfinder is the Economic Firewall Scotland’s Games Sector Needs

Project Pathfinder: Last week, the Herald published its list of the 50 most powerful people in Scottish arts and culture. It was an impressive collection of talent - but it was also a perfect snapshot of why the interactive sector remains a 'billion-pound ghost' in our national policy. Despite being one of the most successful and high-value creative industries we possess, not a single person from the games industry made the list.

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Opinion: The Invisible Powerhouse – Why The Herald’s Culture 50 Has A Interactive Blind Spot

This is a fantastic list. Truly. As I read through The Herald’s 50 most powerful people in Scottish arts and culture (Paywall), I see names that represent the very best of our nation – musicians, producers, actors, and advocates who have fought to keep Scotland’s creative heart beating during some of the toughest years in recent memory. I recognise many of them as allies.

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Taking Our Pulse: Please Help The New UK Games Skills Survey

Data is the foundation of any successful strategy. When I wrote the Level Up Scotland Games Action Plan, it was built on 1,000 data points collected over 22 workshops because I knew that without hard evidence, our industry remains invisible to policymakers. Today, I am asking for your help to sharpen that evidence by supporting a new initiative from Gina Jackson (OBE) and the team at…

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Protecting Our Legacy: Why This New PhD is the First Step Toward a National Collection for Scottish Games

I am delighted to welcome the announcement of a fully funded PhD research studentship, which is now open for applications. Developing a Framework for a National Collection of Scottish Games Heritage is a collaboration between Abertay University, the University of Glasgow, and National Museums Scotland (NMS). This is a significant milestone in our journey to treat games as a vital part of Scotland’s cultural identity and heritage.

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Strategic Recognition: Scottish Games Network and Fellow Scottish Pioneers Named Finalists in 2026 MCV/Develop Awards

The Scottish Games Network (SGN) has been officially shortlisted for the Strategic Partner award at the 2026 MCV/Develop Awards. This nomination marks a significant milestone in our journey to transform SGN from a simple news platform into the primary ecosystem builder for the Scottish games industry. However, the 2026 finalists represent a banner year for the entire country. It is incredibly encouraging to see so many Scottish games and businesses included across the categories, proving that the technical and creative excellence of our ecosystem is increasingly visible on the global stage.

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Beyond the Scoreboard: Play It Forward Raises £3,450 for Sick Kids In Hospital

Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity today revealed that £3,450 was raised in one week by kind gamers across the UK as part of the hospital's Play It Forward campaign, which invited gamers to stream and take on challenges to raise vital funds. The event was part of the GCHC's Games for the Weans programme and was sponsored by UK games publisher, Devolver Digital. 

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Putting Games at the Heart of the National Tech Debate

On Thursday evening, I will be taking a seat at the high table of the national political debate. I have been invited to join the National Conversations Tech and AI Hustings, providing a critical opportunity to ensure the games sector is visible at a policy level. The event, which brings together representatives from Scotland’s major political parties alongside leaders from the technology and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors, comes at a pivotal moment.

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The Missing Megatrend: Why Interactive Technology is the Engine of the Breakthrough Economy

Scottish Enterprise recently published its research into the megatrends and breakthrough technologies reshaping business in 2026. The report is comprehensive, covering Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Bio-technology. However, it suffers from a significant - and all-too-common - blind spot. It entirely ignores the games sector. This is not an isolated incident. For several years, the games industry has been noticeably absent from every major strategy and plan published by and for the Scottish Government.

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