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DebitWay’s Corporate Blog has reported about a game being developed by Concordia’s Critical Hit Summer Program that focuses on educating gamers about the making of weaponry to highlight how profiteering works and show the world that more guns don’t mean the end of world problems. The game, tentatively called Gun Factory, is a part of a four-game project by the same program and is being developed by recent graduate Mehrdad Dehdashti. The gamer portrays the role of the factory owner and is responsible for all the decisions made. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital commerce company Elastic Path Software has announced the immediate availability of Commerce Engine 6.7 and Cortex 1.7, the world’s most powerful software for monetizing digital customer experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Scribendi has launched new self-publishing and e-book publishing services to help authors achieve their dreams—no matter what they’ve written or which publishing route they’ve chosen. The new services include e-book editing, e-book proofreading, and e-book formatting and expand on Scribendi’s current manuscript service offering, which helps authors get their books published via the traditional route. Read the rest of this entry »

The Thinking Skills Club, an after school activity that uses online games as a way of tuning up children’s cognitive gears, has created a YouTube video giving an overview of the site itself and how it works. Using Snow Line, a game in the Executive Function section of the site, club founder Mitch Moldofsky leads a virtual tour that includes playing the game, demonstrating how the “brain puzzles” that track a child’s progress are built, and even linking up to research about the supporting skills that underlie the choice of games. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise electronic signature solutions developer Silanis Technology has announced the launch of version 9.5 of its cloud e-signing solution, e-SignLive™. This release sees the addition of Dutch, French and Spanish user interface forms and prompts to the existing English interface, allowing signers and senders to choose their preferred language. This means that the benefits of e-signing now extend to a broader audience, allowing all participants in the e-signing transaction to sign in their language of choice. Thirty six countries electronically sign documents using e-SignLive alone. Today they are using predominantly English but due to an accelerated adoption of e-SignLive in other countries, Silanis has aggressive plans for adding new language support in the upcoming releases. Read the rest of this entry »

Vantrix, a Montreal-based provider of intelligent media delivery solutions to mobile network operators, announced the availability of Message Optimizer 12.1, a market-leading solution that optimizes MMS messages sent between mobile devices. Now leveraging the same platform as Vantrix’s flagship product, Bandwidth Optimizer, this new release delivers a number of capability enhancements and a long-term upgrade path to help operators maximize the performance, efficiency and revenue potential of their MMS offerings. Read the rest of this entry »

BlueBat Games, an independent Vancouver studio that helps game developers and casino brands socialize their games on browser-based and mobile platforms, today officially announced its BlueBox Engine. BlueBox is a developer-centric social gamification engine that increases player engagement via proven social gamification strategies and mechanics. Designed from the ground up with online casinos in mind, it enables casino operators to leverage the social network effect and hook players into real life rewards. Read the rest of this entry »

As a thank you to the people who have liked Kensington Communication‘s fan page on Facebook, the producer of the hit History TV educational series Museum Secrets is holding a contest. Like the Kensington Facebook page beforeAugust 8, 2013 to unlock the contest app and gain access to the entry form and prize details. The prize pack includes four episodes each of Museum Secrets (Season 1) and The Sacred Balance with David Suzuki on DVD along with two tickets to both of these Toronto landmarks: The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum. Value of the prize is $175. Please see the Contest Rules for complete information. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts Inc. has announced that EA Sports™ has secured licensing agreements with 19 of the top football clubs from Brazil, ensuring each officially licensed club will feature the authentic club crest, kits and players in-game. FIFA 14 will feature over 30 leagues, more than 600 clubs, and 16,000 players. FIFA 14 will feature nearly twice as many officially licensed Brazilian clubs over the last iteration of the game, including 18 teams from the Série A.  The 19 Brazilian clubs who have been officially licensed and will be showcased in-game are: Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo of Canada along with select EB Games stores across Canada have teamed up to offer fans the unique opportunity to preview Pikmin 3 for the Wii U two weeks prior to release. Please see below for a complete list of locations that will be participating in the preview event, which runs this Saturday and Sunday, July 20th and 21st, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. You can also pre-order the downloadable version of Pikmin 3 during the event and gain access to the game one day prior to the official August 4th release date. Read the rest of this entry »