The Stars of the Scottish Games Ecosystem Unveiled The most awaited event in the Scottish gaming industry, the Scottish Games Awards, concluded on Thursday 2 November with a spectacular celebration of excellence, innovation, and extraordinary talent. This year's awards ceremony, held at Platform, Glasgow, and opened by Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, showcased the industry's finest achievements in various categories...
Scottish Games Week has partnered with Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity to raise money for the Games For The Weans campaign. The award-winning campaign is raising funds to buy adapted gaming equipment, consoles and video games for the boys and girls at Scotland’s biggest children’s hospital, as well as supporting the play team to make sure everyone always has someone to...
The nominees for the 2023 Scottish Games Awards have been released, with the largest and most diverse range of entries yet received in the competition. Over 110 entries were received across the 15 categories, recognising and celebrating the achievement and success of individuals, organisations and games from across the whole Scottish Ecosystem. The competition’s new categories including Rising Star, which recognises new...
Due to overwhelming demand we have decided to extend the deadline for award submissions to the Scottish Games Awards 2023. Entries will now remain open for the Scottish Games Awards until 18:00 on Monday 25th September 2023. We understand the effort and dedication that goes into preparing award submissions, and we want to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to participate. The...
The judges for the 2023 Scottish Games Awards have been announced. Several leading Scottish games and news journalists are joined by a noted games entrepreneur and a member of the Scottish parliament, to choose the winners at a ceremony which will be opened by Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf. The judges will be selecting winners for 15 categories of award, celebrating...
Alongside the four GAMES trophies in this year’s Scottish Games Awards, we also have five CRAFT categories, highlighting excellence in a number of specialist areas. These are: Art & Animation Technical Achievement Audio Creativity Best Tools/Tech Best Education Programme While these (hopefully) speak for themselves, we’re still aiming to get a really broad range of entries and recognise work from across the whole games ecosystem. So let us...
Time is ticking on and entries are flooding in for the 2023 Scottish Games Awards – but what exactly are they – and why should you enter your game, your colleagues, or even (we’ll whisper this) yourself? The idea behind the games awards is very simple. We want to celebrate and showcase the incredible work being done across Scotland today. In 2023. One...