On 17 April Scotland will showcase its gaming innovation and quality consumer goods at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai. Find out more about the Scottish companies that’ll be on show and why you should Think Scotland for games and goods.
From seafood to tartan, tech to games, Scotland is known for its spirit of innovation and quality of exports.
call Scotland home, including the creators of Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings
of fresh Scottish salmon was exported in 2024, making it the UK’s top food export
of Scotch whisky exported every second in 2024.
By day, some of Scotland’s best gaming and tech companies will demonstrate their latest creations. By night, attendees will experience the best of Scotland’s food and drink and lifestyle sectors.
A rich history of innovation and craftsmanship runs through all of Scotland’s varied and vibrant industries.
Scottish businesses blend traditional methods and materials with modern technology. The result is inventions that carry the weight of an historic culture built with contemporary values like sustainability and fair work.
From weaving tweed to gamifying healthcare, businesses in Scotland balance the pursuit of innovation with building a greener and fairer future for all.
Scottish Development International’s office in Tokyo is working with Japanese companies who are looking to trade with or invest into Scotland.
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When you think Scotland, you might not immediately think gaming innovation – but you should.
Scotland has played a pioneering role in the evolution of gaming since the 1980s, producing some of the world’s most enduringly popular games through our globally competitive creative industry.
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Our world-class academic institutions are offer multiple courses across game development, production, and more. This makes Scotland one of the best places in the world to study for a career in games.
Abertay University was the first in the world to introduce a video game design course, and it continues to lead the way in this area. In 2025, it was named the top International School for video games design, with programmes ranked in the global top 10 at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
This means Scotland has a steady stream of top talent feeding into its creative industries, keeping us at the vanguard of gaming innovation.
Games are much more than just entertainment. They have the potential to contribute to education, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This is why we have a National Action Plan for Games in Scotland, which will support our gaming ecosystem to fulfil its immense potential for growth and innovation.
Scotland is currently the fourth-largest games cluster in the UK and home to 315 active games companies, 74 supporting companies, 34 gaming-specific tech companies, over 120 part-time/individual creators and freelancers, one E-Sports Organisation, and over 750 Streamers.
While Scotland may be famous for its enduringly popular titles like Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings, our vibrant gaming ecosystem doesn’t just create best-selling games. It drives innovation across sectors and specialisms, like:
And with our world-class educational institutions offering multiple courses in game development, production, and more, there’s a steady stream of talent to keep pushing the boundaries of the latest technologies.
Techscaler is a Scottish Government programme for creating, developing, and scaling Scotland’s brightest tech startups.
We’re working with Techscaler to bring a Scottish gaming pop up to the UK pavilion. This will combine panel discussions, keynote speakers, and demonstrations of the latest games and tech from the Scottish companies in the spotlight.
Discover the Scottish companies that'll be showcasing their innovations at the games pop up.
Best known for porting Minecraft, one of the best-selling games of all time, to consoles and handheld platforms, 4J Studios is one of Scotland’s leading games companies.
Established in Dundee in 2005, the company has 150m+ players worldwide, 16 published titles, 17 mash-up games and more.
KeelWorks is an independent studio based in Edinburgh. Primarily a video game developer, the studio also produces high-end 3D animation, visual effects, and music composition.
The company signed a global publishing agreement with Konami in 2021 for the developer’s debut title, CYGNI: All Guns Blazing.
Speech Graphics provides multi-award-winning audio-driven facial animation in the gaming industry.
Based in Edinburgh, its technology is built from over 20 years of R&D in speech technology, linguistics, machine learning, and procedural facial dynamics.
Wardog Studios is a premier art development studio with a global reputation for providing best in industry weapons and vehicles for games and film.
Also based in Edinburgh, it provides international AAA clientele with concept art and 3D Assets. Its goal is to build a creative powerhouse that redefines how to build and manage world leading art teams.
Yaldi Games is a game studio dedicated to bridging the gap between gaming and real-world skills, creating immersive experiences that inspire learning through play.
Focused on the growing market of cozy and educational gaming, Yaldi empowers players to explore foraging, herbalism, sustainable cooking, and environmental conservation in engaging, interactive ways.
Blazing Griffin is a Scottish multi-media entertainment company spanning Games, Film and Post-Production with a unique focus on IP at the intersection of media. Blazing Griffin Games is multi-BAFTA award-winning a multi-platform development studio known for working on globally recognised IP.
Its work includes the episodic detective game Murder Mystery Machine for Apple Arcade, Agatha's Hercule Poirot games for PC and Consoles and the AR adaptation of the board game CATAN.
Like Fitbit for your brain, GLITCHERS' mobile game tracks cognitive performance to detect cognitive issues earlier.
Its first focus is Alzheimer's dementia, where the tech can detect decline up to 15 years earlier than traditional tests. It's accessible to anyone aged 8-80 on their smartphone.
BearHammer Games' latest projects have been focused on making the most exciting VR obstacle course games available on the market.
It started first with Venture's Gauntlet, a game that challenged users' fitness with innovative arm swing controls, climbing, laser dodging, and more to compete on a fictional obstacle course inspired by the Scottish Highlands.
Buildstash is a tool for software teams to manage their build files, and steer projects through QA review and release.
Buildstash replaces shared folder dumping grounds for past builds with automated organisation and simple, secure sharing, ensuring builds and context are never lost.
Konglomerate Games is a Dundee based video games company specialized in creating games to help people. It takes the best parts of video games and applies them to non-games scenarios like healthcare and education.
From physiotherapy games for children with breathing conditions like cystic fibrosis to medical training games for ophthalmology.
Leaders from Scotland's gaming industry will be speaking across various panels throughout this spotlight day. These include:
When it comes to consumer goods, Scotland has a global reputation for excellence thanks to its rich history of designing, building, and crafting quality products.
While renowned products from Scotland, like tweed and tartan, carry the country’s heritage, a focus on ethical and sustainable production fits with 21st Century values.
This high-quality, low environmental impact ethos is carried throughout Scottish consumer products, from textiles to food and drink.
Scottish seafood (including salmon and, more recently, mackerel) and whisky are an important export for Scotland, celebrated globally as premium products.
But there’s much more to Scotland’s consumer industry than our traditional methods and sustainable focus. Scottish businesses are at the forefront of creating transformational solutions to global challenges including food safety, provenance, and nutrition.
As the gaming pop up draws to a close, Scotland’s space at the UK pavilion will be transformed into a showcase of the best of Scottish consumer goods.
Attendees will get a true taste of Scottish culture and creativity, with the chance to sample spirits and seafood while surrounded by some of the country’s finest textiles and lifestyle products.
Arbikie is a family-owned, sustainability-focused distillery in Angus in Scotland. This pioneering company has taken one of Scotland’s’ most traditional industries and made it climate-friendly without sacrificing quality.
The company is famous for distilling Nadar, the world’s first climate-positive gin and vodka, and is soon to be the world’s first green hydrogen-powered distillery.
Brave New Spirits is an independent bottler and blender of Scotch Whisky founded in 2020.
The company produces a wide range of whisky brands, trade in over 30 international markets, and was named the ‘Spirits Bottler of the Year’ by international trade magazine The Spirits Business in 2024.
D&M Winchester is a complete service provider for whisky cask storage and management solutions.
It is also currently in the process of launching a private label that will be distilled at the historic Coleburn distillery, once it’s completed its transformation into a whisky lover’s resort.
Edinburgh Teahouses blend luxury flavoured teas the old-fashioned way: by hand in Edinburgh.
While its methods are traditional, its values are modern. The business is committed to producing its products sustainably and is currently working towards becoming a B corp.
Goldfinch Whisky Merchants is an award-winning independent Scottish whisky bottler and blender.
It specialises in sourcing whisky from Scotland’s finest distilleries releasing Single Cask, Small Batch, and volume ranges.
Hebridean Smokehouse produces a premium range of smoked salmon products from its home in the Outer Hebrides.
Sourced from salmon grown locally, the exceptional fish are prepared by hand before being smoked over locally cut peat.
Loch Duart Salmon is an end-to-end producer of the world’s only 100% Wild Scottish genetics Atlantic salmon.
The company is the only Scottish provider of Ijejime accredited salmon, making it a favourite of top sushi chefs across the world.
The first exclusive gin distillery to be established in Edinburgh for over 150 years, Summerhall Distillery has been setting the standard for Scottish gin since launching in 2013.
8 Doors Distillery offers premium, small batch spirits from the northernmost distillery on Scotland’s mainland.
While rooted in traditional Scottish whisky-making methods, 8 Doors Distillery embraces new technologies to enhance the efficiency, consistency, and sustainability of its production process.
Derived from the Gaelic word for water, Ishga is a unique skincare company based on the Hebridean Islands off the North West coast of Scotland.
Ishga creates remarkable skincare products that harness the abundance of vitamins and bioactive materials from Hebridean seaweed.
Supernature Oils produces award-winning cold-pressed rapeseed oil from Carrington Barns Farm in Midlothian.
From planting the seeds to pressing the crop, Supernature Oils owns the full production process. The result is a top quality, sustainable oil with a unique taste.
Glasgow-based POTR uses origami to transform waste plastic into flat pack, self-watering plant pots and vases for your home.
While the pots are designed for sustainability, they also take the guess work out of plant care with their inbuilt wicking system.
Scotland’s second spotlight day at Expo 2025 will showcase its healthcare industries.
26 June 2025
UK Pavilion
Scotland’s third spotlight day at Expo 2025 will showcase its energy transition industries.
18 September 2025
UK Pavilion
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