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Pound is down today, and the ruble is under pressure. Angela merkel, the german chancellor, appears to be leaking nord stream 2 with the poisoning of alexey navalny. Some suggesting that maybe we could see that project halted or not used, but currently the link between the two providing some consternation in moscow. The u. K. Is preparing for brexit talks to fail and planning new legislation to potentially override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement, as the u. K. Foreign secretary dominic raab ca...

A new research and development centre that cements Dundee’s place as a “world-leader for technology” has been given the go-ahead.  

A new research and development centre in Dundee will create jobs and drive the next generation of visual effects technologies.

Dundee firm Puny Astronaut will release Skye Tales, a computer game about a flying dragon on Nintendo Switch.

Research by an industry body suggests a big rise in jobs and active companies in the past two years.

Abertay University has been ranked in the global top ten for postgraduate video games education by the prestigious Princeton Review.The internationally respected ranking placed Abertay as the seventh best university in the world to study a Masters in

In this second part of our spotlight on Scotland’s games industry, we look at education and the pipeline of new talent. And if you missed it check out the first part of our investigation, where we size up the industry and speak to some of its leaders. Scortalnd undoubtedly has a healthy industry today, but what of tomorrow? Scotland has extensive resources for training the game workers of the future. The country has seven universities offering games-related degrees, and 11 colleges across the...

Dundee watchmakers started making Sinclair computers at Timex in 1981 © DCT Media The final testing bench for the Sinclair computer at the Dundee Timex factory. Dundee watchmakers started making computers 40 years ago in March 1981 which would spawn the birth of the city’s video games industry. The ZX81 computer was manufactured at the Timex factory which was the UK’s largest supplier of watches and the city’s single biggest employer with 5,000 workers. Nimble fingers It was a workforce ...