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Lack Of Updates...

A quick post to let you know that we're looking into the lack of updates for readers visiting the front page of sg.biz.  The RSS feeds and daily e-mail are all happily showing new posts.  However, the front page hasn't updated in over a week.

Coinciding, oddly enough, with the all new Typepad back-end editor.  Which is lovely, but seems to tip all of our carefully considered text into a giant, yawning abyss.

We're whipping the Indoctrignomes to death to try and resolve this and hope to have an answer for you asafp.

In the meantime, we'll carry on updating and we can all tell the page visitors what they missed once we get it sorted out.

Updates Updates...

Apologies for the lack of updates at the end of last week. Typepad were updating their service to incorporate a fancy new editor, which allows things like ^Superscript, _subscript, highlighting and piles of new fonts.  Updates will resume as soon as they've stopped messing about with it...

Ready Up Page - Already Up

Work continues on making the Scottishgames directory as comprehensive and detailed as possible.  The folks at Ready Up have completed their page with details of the company, the site and the services.

Companies are free to put whatever they wish on their own pages (well, within reason...)  Regular updates are promised from several participants.  The Indoctrimat page in particular looks lovely right now.

In the meantime, check out the Ready Up page.

W1N

Congratulations to sunchirp, for a complete and fully rounded answer to the MMO question.  Drop us a line and we'll drop a DVD of Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball into the post for you.

Updates - coming soon...

It's over.  The Interactive Festival, Dare, Protoplay, are all now lingering memories and the country can return to something like normal.

We've not forgotten about you, dear, sweet, gentle readers.  We're just polishing off the remaining bits and pieces from the festival and will be updating you on all of the latest news and analysis from the last week.

Back In Time For Xmas

...and after a lengthy delay, we're back in business.  Our apologies for the gap in service.  This was due to leaves on the Internet.  Plus an unresolved billing issue that screwed things up and stopped the SG.biz team updating the blog.

However, that's all now in the past and you can look forward to a revised, redesigned and reconstituted SG.biz in early 2007.

In the meantime, we wish you a merry winterval and a thoroughly jolly new year.

SG.biz

Technical Fault

There will be a gap of a few days more in the normal Scottishgames updates as we move to a new server system.  We apologise for the inconvenience. Dare to be Digital, EIEF and other relevant updates will be back in early September.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

In the meantime, here is some light music....

Da dum, dee dum dum dum dum da dah duuuumm!

A crisp fiver for the first person to correctly recognise the tune.

You know who you are...

Guys, we appreciated your input. We do, but 3rd year jokes about people smelling and companies being dicks, aint going to make it online...

Only we're allowed that privilege.

Mainstream Media Success

The Guardian's Gamesblog mentioned SG yesterday, with Keith posing the question, what is the greatest game ever to come out of Scotland?  The comments are fairly revealing, with GTA picking up almost as much criticism as praise.

A couple of people chose quite unusual titles though.  One enlightened soul mentioned DMA's Unirally (Uniracers if you're American) and another Body Harvest.  It was something of a shock finding someone actually talking about Brave by Vis, which the SG team will happily admit, they had no idea was ever released.

As for Dominik Diamond (note the spelling).  The cheeky wee funster and ex Games Master host is back on the air, presenting XFM Scotland's breakfast show.  You can read all about it on the XFM website or show him you care and drop him a text on 80XFM.  If you get in touch, give him our love...

So, who's your favourite Guardian Gamesblogger then?

Fab Fresh Friday

We're trying a new look on Scottish Games.  Don't be afraid to let us know what you think.