With a new year comes a new Zodiac animal and much like the monkey of 2016, 2017's rooster is a species with a rich and storied history in games. Alongside their more feminine chicken counterparts, these little cluckers have been popping up for decades, sometimes in lead roles and sometimes as mere background dressing or cannon fodder. Here's some of our favourite fowl from over the years...

Dear friends, clients, followers and hangers-on,

From all the team at Tag Games, we'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas and an Awesome New Year!

There was some sad news yesterday as Team Rock went into liquidation with the loss of around 70 jobs across the UK. A good number of those are based with the games team in Scotland, whom we know well. With only a few days to go until Christmas, staff have found out they will receive no pay this month which quite honestly sucks. Badly.

Tag Games are delighted to announce the US launch of Ballarina, our latest title commissioned by Nickelodeon! The game features in season two of Nickelodeon’s successful Game Shakers TV series, a teen sitcom starring two girls who run their own game development studio. Ballarina is the latest in a line of games featured on the show to make it into real-life app stores and is now available on iOS, Android and Amazon devices!

After a successful VR GameJam back in September, we decided to experiment some more with the technology and have since been working on our first VR prototype. It's been an amazing learning experience as we've realised how far VR really could move the goalposts in the world of game development.

We've been filling up on shortbread at Tag Towers today as, like the rest of Scotland, we celebrate St. Andrews Day 2016.

Us Scots have a fantastic and ever-growing game development scene especially in our hometown of Dundee, but we couldn't help but think that Scottish characters are a little under-represented in games themselves. That in mind, we trawled the depths to find three of the best (maybe worst in some cases) so you don't have to.

So, let's raise a glass of Irn-Bru to this little lot...

At Tag Games we are always looking to invest in our people and our business practices so we were delighted to make our Scottish Business Pledge earlier this month.

The Scottish Business Pledge is a government-led initiative that aims to make Scotland a wealthier and more forward-looking nation. It does this by setting guidelines to boost productivity, competitiveness, sustainability and workforce engagement in businesses all over Scotland. 

A great year for Tag Games has just got even better as we scooped the "Digital Business of the Year" gong at the 2016 Courier Business Awards! 

Celebrating innovation and success in business throughout the Tayside and Fife region, this year's Courier Business Awards saw over 700 attendees descend on Dundee's Apex Hotel for the event.