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TELUS and The Globe and Mail today announced the launch of The Challenge, the 3^rd annual contest inviting Canadian small and medium-sized business owners to present their biggest business challenge for the opportunity to win a $100,000 grant from TELUS. Entrepreneurs across Canada are invited to submit entries at online and will be judged by a panel that includes entrepreneurs and business experts. Read the rest of this entry »

We ventured to Vancouver last Thursday (along with my noxious cold & flu bugs) for a half-hour video interview with members of the Next Level Games dev team about the upcoming Nintendo 3DS title Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, which is scheduled for release on March 24th. In this new game, players will guide Luigi through massive ghost-infested mansions on an action-packed hunt for the pieces of the Dark Moon. Armed with the ghost-sucking Poltergust 5000 and other new gadgets, you’ll have to capture ghosts, solve puzzles, and battle monster-sized bosses. Besides Luigi, the game features Professor E. Gadd and his crew of Toads on the “good” side, while on the bad side we have a nice collection of ghost characters – Hiders, Slammers, Greenies, Gobbers, Poltergeists and Polterpups – along with the infamous Boo and that royal baddy, King Boo. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Trade Commissioner’s Office wants to make sure that Canadian game developers attending this year’s Game Developers Conference later this month in San Francisco are aware of the Canada Business Lounge service as well as the International Publisher Sessions. Be sure to take advantage of these opportunities and the assistance afforded to expanding the horizons of Canadian game development. Read the rest of this entry »

Infinite Game Publishing (IGP) and Piranha Games Inc. (PGI) have announced that Russ Bullock and Bryan Ekman, president and creative director of the acclaimed Free-To-Play title MechWarrior Online, will be attending PAX East for the Sunday afternoon panel, “Going Back to the Future – Calling All Mechwarriors, Tribes and Star Citizens”. Taking place Sunday, March 24 from 3:30-4:30 pm in the Arachnid Theater, Russ and Bryan will be joined by Chris Roberts, President, Cloud Imperium Games (Star Citizen) and Todd Harris, President, Hi-Rez Studios (Tribes Ascend) and moderated by Penny Arcade’s Ben Kuchera. Read the rest of this entry »

iSkin, a premium brand of fashion and technology lifestyle accessories, announced the release of the slims case for the iPhone 5. Built with the most revolutionary design of its kind, the slims by iSkin boasts a composition width of 0.4mm, making it the thinnest case available for the iPhone 5. Using cutting edge technology, slims by iSkin delivers puncture- and scratch- resistant surface protection without bulk, nor sacrificing design. Read the rest of this entry »

Best-selling author Matthew Mather has released his newest book – CyberStorm – a timely, real-world, research-based novel which touches on many of the cyber-espionage themes that are making headlines today. Early reviews highlight the alarming plausibility of ‘CyberStorm’. Following up on his 2012 #1 hit, The Atopia Chronicles, which has remained in the top-ten of the Amazon techno-thriller/sci-fi categories since its launch last August, ‘CyberStorm’ is a stand-alone novel based in the present day. Read the rest of this entry »

Note: Empathica is now InMoment. Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions provider Empathica Inc. has announced the hiring of Brandi Smith as Director of Marketing. In her new role, Smith is responsible for developing and executing global marketing programs to enrich pipeline growth and streamline sales for the company. Read the rest of this entry »

On April 3, 2013, the 3rd annual Level Up Showcase will kick off at the Design Exchange, featuring student-developed games and over 600 attendees from Ontario’s diverse video games community. The event is co-hosted and organized by faculty from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), University of Toronto and OCAD University. Read the rest of this entry »

Corporate Smalltalk Consulting has introduced an updated version of their Large Viewer app for iOS that allows users to open extremely large documents in virtually any format with no wait time. The new Large Viewer update offers greater benefits for the astronomy community by supporting a wider range of multi-page Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) files. Large Viewer is the only app that can read NASA-endorsed FITS files which are used to transmit and evaluate scientific images and data. Read the rest of this entry »

RewardStream, a Vancouver-based provider of loyalty and referral marketing solutions for some of the world’s largest brands, is pleased to announce that its Lifecycle Marketing Platform™ (LMP) is now available for license. LMP has historically been offered solely in a SaaS model and is now directly available for license to brands, marketing solution providers and loyalty processors who specialize in the delivery of loyalty, reward, incentive, and engagement programs. Read the rest of this entry »