Tag Games are delighted to announce that we've taken over the live operations of Nonstop Knight, the smash-hit mobile adventure from Flare Games and Kopla. We are currently busy working to make the successful RPG an even better ongoing experience for players as we design new features, run live events and use the findings of our analytics team to optimise the game's performance!

In less than two weeks our CEO Paul Farley and Head of BizDev Nina Cliff will be California-bound for this year's edition of GDC. As always it's shaping up to be one of the most important events in the games industry calendar, filled with announcements, demos and major keynotes covering everything from business and marketing to design, programming and visual art.

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...