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| Date | News Article |
| 29/07/2010 | New White Paper : Outsourcing with Confidence New white paper released by Rapid Quality Systems summarizing the common challenges of outsourcing software development work and and describing Code Rocket: a software visualization and documentation system which offers invaluable assistance for supporting recommended outsourcing best practices... |
| 28/07/2010 | Customer Testimonial : Insights Learning and Development Customer Testimonial : Insights Learning and Development Insights into Code Rocket Insights experience the powerful benefits of Code Rocket Rapid Quality Systems are delighted to welcome Insights Learning and Development as members of the Code Rocket community. Insights developers recognized the benefits of Code Rocket and became early adopters of the technology. What they recognized was a highly effective way of adding value to their existing development toolset and achieving quality and management improvements in their development process but with minimal costs of adoption... |
| 28/07/2010 | Facing the future of animation at Abertay A University of Abertay Dundee researcher believes his studies into facial expressions could shape the future of animation by making film and computer game characters more credible. Robin Sloan, PhD student and lecturer based in the Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games, has devised a set of rules to help animators sequence their facial animations to portray a more convincing emotion... |
| 21/07/2010 | Japan - UKTI Mission to Tokyo Games Show This exciting mission between 13-17 September 2010 is organised by UKTI experts based in Japan and provides a unique opportunity for UK-based games firms to understand the Japanese Games and Digital Media industry...
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| 20/07/2010 | Creative companies 'must protect their IP' to survive, says Abertay expert Small creative businesses need to take greater control of their most important asset - their intellectual property - to protect jobs and their future profits, according to a legal expert at the University of Abertay Dundee... |
| 20/07/2010 | Scottish Wrestling Entertainment Re-enacts Final Fight for Proper Games (Watch the Video) At the recent launch party for Final FightTM: Double Impact, games developer Proper Games enlisted some help from Scottish Wrestling Entertainment (SWE). The wrestlers, including Bravehart and Chaz Phoenix, performed an hour long show for the Dundee games development community in celebration of the Final Fight release... |
| 13/07/2010 | Enterprising Britain Awards Interactive Tayside, on behalf of NEoN, collected its award yesterday for being shortlisted as a Scottish Region finalist for Enterprising Britain. |
| 13/07/2010 | First Thurstday First Thurstday in August cancelled. |
| 09/07/2010 | The Old Course comes to iPhone Cobra Mobile and St Andrews Links presents The Old Course, an official licensed product from the Home of Golf. |
| 29/06/2010 | EA SHIPS REALTIME WORLDS APB: ALL POINTS BULLETIN Get Tough on the Streets of San Paro in the Year's Hottest Online Action Game...... |
| 28/06/2010 | Finally Fabulous Facebook Football Owning a football team is no longer the province of princes, oligarchs, moguls, despots, hedge funds, WAGs or tyrants.... |
| 25/06/2010 | Financing for Creative Micro Businesses A study to assess the possible demand for small, low interest loans (£100-£5000) amongst creative micro enterprises (five people or less) and individuals based in Scotland is currently being conducted. Should sufficient demand exist, a not-for-profit fund to help finance creative activity in Scotland may be created. To discover more about the existing need for small loans amongst creative digital media companies we are looking for participants to join workshops... |
| 18/06/2010 | TIGA Comments On New Creative Industries Report TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today commented on new figures released by PricewaterhouseCoopers..... |
| 17/06/2010 | Proper Games Slated to Create DLC for Crackdown 2 Proper Games, the award winning games developer based in Dundee, has been tapped to create the Premium Downloadable Content (PDLC) for the upcoming Microsoft release of Crackdown 2..... |
| 17/06/2010 | Free Develop Magazine Subs Offer Develop is increasing its print circulation, offering a free 12-month subscription for UK readers, and a 30 per cent discount for international customers - all you have to do is fill in a request form by the end of June...
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| 11/06/2010 | Scottish Games Companies Nominated for Prestigious International Awards Scotland's games sector has received a significant boost after three of its leading companies have been shortlisted for different awards in the forthcoming Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2010..... |
| 06/05/2010 | Edinburgh Skilleset Screen and Media Academy Graduate Film Screening at Edinburgh Filmhouse Edinburgh FilmHouse Cinema 1 plays host to the Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy Graduate Film screenings on 13 May from 6pm to 8pm.......... |
| 26/04/2010 | Revolver Ups Its Games Revolver, Scotland's leading digital PR agency, today launched its brand new Interactive Entertainment division, headed by games industry veteran Brian Baglow...... |
| 08/04/2010 | Mobile Interactive Whiteboard Proposal The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MOE), is implementing an e-Learning project through the e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited (e-LJAM), an agency of OPM.... |
| 07/04/2010 | UKTI to Fund Gamescom Trips British game businesses offered £1,000 each for exhibition costs.... |
| 01/04/2010 | Registration for Game in Scotland 2010 Now Open This FREE event gives YOU the chance to meet Scotland's top games development studios and learn of the variety of jobs available in the Scottish Games Industry... |
| 22/03/2010 | Hat-Trick for Dundee Companies Dundee scoops awards at national IoD ceremony - Dundee was celebrated by Scotland's business community at this year's IoD Director of the Year Awards, as two of the city's firms scooped three of the top awards at an event celebrating the very best in the industry.... |
| 22/03/2010 | Code Rocket Eclipse Launches Rapid Quality Systems are pleased to announce the immediate release of Code Rocket for the Eclipse development environment on Windows, targeting the Java programming language. |
| 19/03/2010 | David Jones Receives Double Honours at Director of The Year Awards Realtime Worlds, the leading British independent video game developer, can announce founder and creative director, David Jones, has been awarded Director of the Year 2009 by the Institute of Directors, Scotland... |
| 19/03/2010 | Abertay Uni launches 'cyber crime' course An academic attack on the perpetrators of global cyber crime is being launched in Dundee. Abertay University is introducing the UK's first degree to tackle what has become one of the world's fastest growing criminal activities... |
| 19/03/2010 | Putting out an APB for all potential Beta Testers! Realtime Worlds, the leading British independent video game developer behind APB: All Points Bulletin, have today laid down the law to all wannabe Criminals and Enforcers looking to get hands-on with APB during the third and final closed beta session. With the beta test already underway, gamers are required to sign up at www.apb.com/beta-application where lucky applicants will gain early access to the vibrancy and violence of gangland San Paro... |
| 18/03/2010 | Realtime Worlds Wins John Logie Baird Award for Innovation Realtime Worlds, the leading British independent video game developer, was honoured with the John Logie Baird award for 'Impact through Innovation', which recognises innovation within established businesses that have made an impact in the marketplace... |
| 18/03/2010 | brightsolid completes acquisition of Friends Reunited from ITV plc brightsolid today announced the completion of its acquisition of Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million, following clearance by the Competition Commission..... |
| 05/03/2010 | Astro Ranch - The Farming Game That's out of this World! Mobile and handheld games publisher/developer Tag Games, is pleased to announce the launch of their innovative, and highly anticipated, iPhone space farming sim Astro Ranch..... |
| 24/02/2010 | The Crystal Maze Launches on iPhone and iPod Touch BAFTA award-winning studio Dynamo Games has just launched The Crystal Maze on App Store..... |
| 24/02/2010 | Chris Wright of Proper Games Named to TIGA Board Chris Wright, the Chief Operating Officer at Dundee based games developer, Proper Games Ltd, has been named to the board of TIGA, |
| 19/02/2010 | Industry Specialists help Scotland go Interactive A team of leading industry experts has been appointed to deliver the specialist business growth and advisory support services that will drive the new ambitious Interactive Scotland initiative... |
| 08/02/2010 | Scotland's Highly Ambitious Cohort Studios Joins Havok San Francisco, CA (February 4, 2010) - Havok today announced that it has signed Cohort Studios into its Independent Developer Program. |
| 04/02/2010 | TIGA sets out Skills Agenda for UK Games Industry TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today set out a plan for ensuring that the video games industry has the skilled workforce that it needs to compete...... |
| 02/02/2010 | X-Ray Legacy Code to Reveal Secrets Rapid Quality Systems are proud to announce the immediate release of Code Rocket for Visual Studio .NET 2005, 2008 and 2010..... |
| 01/02/2010 | Dare 2010 calls for Emerging Game Developers Dare to be Digital, the leading international computer game design competition, is calling for teams of talented student programmers and artists to apply for this year's competition.... |
| 28/01/2010 | Happy Duckling receives BAFTA nomination An enchanting short animation film produced by students from the universities of Dundee and Abertay has continued its run of success by being nominated for a BAFTA Film Award 2010... |
| 28/01/2010 | Do you have any stories for the Interactive Tayside Website and Newsletter? Do you have exciting news that you would like to share? Do you have a press release, event or job vacancy that you wish to be highlighted on the Interactive Tayside website and newsletter?... |
| 25/01/2010 | Link to Rickets Unfounded and Unfair TIGA said today that it was ludicrous to suggest that playing video games was responsible for an apparent increase in cases of rickets. TIGA made the comments following newspaper stories about a review in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal suggesting a link between playing games and the medical condition of rickets....... |
| 25/01/2010 | House of Lords Committee backs TIGA's Tax Break Campaign TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, said today that the House of Lords Communications Committee had effectively backed TIGA's campaign for Games Tax Relief.... |
| 25/01/2010 | Top Scottish Talent Recognised By Develop '30 Under 30' Hot List Leading UK games industry magazine Develop has released its yearly '30 Under 30' list that recognises top talent from across the sector. Many of Scotland's rising stars of game development were considered for the 2009 list, with Andrew Smith from Proper Games making the final selection... |
| 19/01/2010 | Alt-w awards of up to £10,000 available Initiated by Scottish Screen in 2000, the Alt-w Fund is for practitioners based in Scotland to make and develop new artworks, devices and creative applications that challenge the notions of what networked or web-based digital creativity can be...
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| 18/01/2010 | Starter for 6 deadline 2 February 2010 Starter for 6 is an enterprise training programme that supports up and coming creative entrepreneurs across Scotland. By helping to turn creative ideas into successful businesses, the programme not only contributes towards the success of the Scottish economy but also raises the awareness and profile of talented entrepreneurs in Scotland...
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| 15/01/2010 | Student Programming Contest, Dundee After the success of last year's student programming contest, Realtime Worlds is hosting its second student programming contest on Saturday, 6 March 2010 at 11 a.m in Abertay's Whitespace, Dundee, Scotland...
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| 15/01/2010 | NESTA Age Unlimited Scotland 2010 NESTA has launched a new programme in Scotland called Age Unlimited. We are looking for people in their 50's and 60's in Scotland to come forward with new ideas that could be turned into live community projects which would improve the lives of older people (people in their 70's, 80's and above). The programme aims to test how older people can be engaged in the design and delivery of innovative new services that could improve older people's health and well-being and reduce dependency on costly mainstream public services... |
| 14/01/2010 | Dynamo drops onto iPhone with Dizzy Drops Best known for its Championship Manager mobile games, Scottish developer Dynamo Games is now dipping its toes into the fast and frantic world of casual gaming... |
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