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3rd March 2014

Royal Ontario Musuem Launches New ROMining Game App

royal ontario museumFollowing the recent opening of the Barrick Gold Corporation Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum, the ROMining Game App is now live.  The gallery, located in the ROM’s Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth’s Treasures (Level 2), is an interactive 600 square foot space, with multi-touch, animated displays, multi-media presentations and more.  At the heart of this new gallery is the Challenge of Mining game. Featuring a multi-touch table, the game can be played by up to eight players in the Museum and another four mobile players, by downloading the newly available ROMining Game App. An inter-generational experience, the game requires players to choose a specific character, representative of a mining stakeholder (miner, local community member among them) and, working together, players are challenged to “manage” a successful, ethical, and productive mining operation. Read the rest of this entry »

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28th February 2014

Bus Driver Pocket Edition Now On iTunes

meridian4Montreal publisher Meridian4 and Halifax developers Twisted Oak, in collaboration with SCS Software have announced that Bus Driver: Pocket Edition is pulling up to the station and now available worldwide on the App Store for $2.99 USD. Bus Driver: Pocket Edition takes all the fun gameplay of the fan-favorite PC sim and brings it to iOS devices. Read the rest of this entry »

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28th February 2014

Travel The World With Professor Layton In His Puzzling New Nintendo 3DS Adventure

Nintendo CanadaPuzzles can appear in the most unlikely of places. Take this press release, for example. Yes, it is announcing the upcoming launch of Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy for Nintendo 3DS in stores and on the Nintendo eShop today, February 28th, but it is also contains two puzzles that are ready for solving. Can you break the code and reveal the hidden messages? Read the rest of this entry »

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27th February 2014

Royal LePage’s New Mobile App Offers New Draw-and-Search Feature

royal lepageRoyal LePage, in partnership with award-winning mobile agency Plastic Mobile, today announced the launch of the Royal LePage mobile app for Canadian house hunters. Available for iPhone, the new app is simplifying the property search process down to the swipe of a finger. The app’s innovative Draw-and-Search feature allows users to easily zero in on a specific geographic area of interest on a map, by simply drawing the area of choice with their finger. Upon doing so, property listings within the selected region will pop up on the screen. On-the-go house hunters with an iOS device no longer need to log in or fill in forms to see search results.  And with one tap, users can save their search to get updates on new homes, open houses, and current listings within the geographic area they selected. Read the rest of this entry »

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27th February 2014

Shaw Media Launches The History GO App

shaw-newShaw Media has launched HISTORY Go, one of the most robust TV everywhere experiences in the country. Available on iOS, Android, and the newly enhanced history.ca, HISTORY Go offers HISTORY subscribers almost 300 hours of fan-favourite programming. The app launches in time for season two of the hit series Vikings, which broadcasts Thursdays at 10pm ET/PT, beginning today, with each episode becoming available on HISTORY Go the day following its premiere broadcast. Read the rest of this entry »

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27th February 2014

World of LEGO® Legends of CHIMA™ Online Now Available For iOS

WB Games MontrealThe battle for CHI builds on in the world of CHIMA™!  Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, The LEGO Group and WB Games Montréal have announced the launch of LEGO® Legends of CHIMA™ Online on iTunes for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices, playable with a WiFi connection.  LEGO Legends of CHIMA Online, already available for Windows PC and Mac, is an immersive and interactive free to play online game that extends and complements the popular LEGO Legends of CHIMA universe of products, including construction sets, vehicles, TV shows and more!  The online game officially moved out of Beta last month with game enhancements and new features including parent accounts and chat, and this enhanced experience is now available for download on the App Store. Read the rest of this entry »

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24th February 2014

Sandvine Usage Management Introduces New Mobile Billing Innovations

sandvineIntelligent broadband network solutions provider for fixed and mobile operators Sandvine has announced the launch of Usage Management release 5.0, which offers new capabilities to help both fixed and mobile communications service providers (CSPs) create, manage and implement new service plan offerings. Sandvine Usage Management is currently powering service innovation for more than 100 CSPs worldwide, and this latest release provides several next generation features that will benefit both operators and subscribers, including: Read the rest of this entry »

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21st February 2014

Review: Donkey Kong Returns With Tropical Freeze

Nintendo CanadaReleasing today, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze returns fans to a world full of familiar challenges and rewards with new enemies and new abilities – and a reminder that in DK’s world, timing truly is everything. In fact, some levels in this latest iteration of the franchise bring a stark truism to the adage “he who hesitates is lost” because in some levels there really isn’t any time to look around. It took me more than a few lives to get through some levels, as the difficulty at times seemed to ramp up rather quickly – sometimes frustratingly so – but it’s also easy to rack up a healthy store of “back-up lives” in this game, so it’s all good. Read the rest of this entry »

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18th February 2014

Second Chance Heroes Launched

rocket city studiosSt. John’s developer Rocket City Studios, Inc. has announced the release of their debut video game Second Chance Heroes, a cooperative arcade action adventure where players collect and play as clones of famous historical figures to fight off an apocalypse of the absurd. Read the rest of this entry »

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14th February 2014

AlertDriving Launches Hazard Perception 360

alertdrivingToronto web-based driver risk management solutions developer AlertDriving has announced the launch of Hazard Perception 360o, an interactive mobile driver risk assessment solution. The new release builds on AlertDriving’s proven, industry-standard Hazard Perception Evaluation program, which is designed to identify high-risk drivers by assessing their risk awareness and reaction time across six core safe driving categories. Based on each individual’s specific deficiencies, the program assigns targeted training to mitigate a driver’s assessed risk. Read the rest of this entry »

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