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IMAX Corporation and Cinemas Guzzo have announced a joint revenue sharing agreement to install four digital IMAX^® theatre systems throughout the greater Montreal area in Quebec. This agreement brings the total number of IMAX^® theatres open or contracted to open in Canada to 30. Read the rest of this entry »

Continuing its commitment to create and distribute content for digital and traditional media platforms alike, Lionsgate diversified global entertainment company announced earlier today that it has sold season one of Thunderbird Films‘ crime drama Endgame to Hulu.  The show will premiere in the U.S. on Hulu and the Hulu Plus subscription service on January 9th. Read the rest of this entry »

Transgaming Studios has announced that they have a new title in development. Ants At A Picnic is set at a late 19th century picnic, and your job is to protect all of the scrumptious food from some very determined bugs. Hungry ants will swarm your food in waves, and you must squish all of them before the next wave arrives. Read the rest of this entry »

Avnet Technology Solutions, a global IT solutions distribution provider and operating group of Avnet, Inc. has announced two new demonstration resources for Cisco value-added reseller partners in Canada – Avnet’s Cisco Data Center Lab and Customer Test Drive Program. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Funcom kicks off the Week of the Illuminati, a full week of focus on the most secret of the three secret societies that players can join in the upcoming modern-day massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’. Throughout the week Funcom will be serving information, artwork, screenshots, a video, and a developer Q&A will take place January 15th on Facebook . Read the rest of this entry »

The city of Vancouver, shining light of the land of sasquatches and angry ghosts, is no stranger to the disquieting and the bizarre. Now Curio Media also calls it home, a film and media company that supports female filmmakers and artists in the genres of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. Curio Media, with the assistance of IRL Events, is proud to announce its inaugural event: the Vancouver presentation of the 2012 Viscera Film Festival, showcasing short horror films created by female filmmakers on Friday, January 13th. Read the rest of this entry »

TransGaming Inc. announced late yesterday that it has closed the acquisition of the Interactive TV (iTV) & Connected TV division of New York-based Oberon Media, Inc., which was previously announced on January 4, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Software in Canada” report to their offering. The Enterprise Edition is available for $629.00 CAD (based on Euro conversion) or $251.00 CAD for the Electronic PDF Edition, the Software in Canada industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including market size (value 2006-10) and forecast to 2015. Read the rest of this entry »

Alberta-based app developer Robots and Pencils challenges you to save the damsel in distress over and over and over again in its new physics-based puzzle game Catch the Princess HD. Play through more than 60 dungeon levels with a wide variety of challenges, cutting the chains that bind the poor princess to the ceiling. Plan your moves carefully, using bellows, pixie dust and physics to swing the princess’ cage past dangerous obstacles, as you guide her into the waiting arms of a fang-toothed admirer. Read the rest of this entry »

Multichannel newspaper and magazine content distributor NewspaperDirect Inc. has launched three new Replica Editions for The New York Times, The Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune. Read the rest of this entry »