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With Kobo eReaders now offered at newly-reduced prices, it’s never been easier to give Mom the perfect gift. With deals on the award-winning Kobo Touch priced at $99.99, and the Parent Tested, Parent Approved™ Kobo Vox priced at $179.99, there’s a device to suit any Mother’s reading style. Read the rest of this entry »

GiveawayNow.com, the social media tool that offers companies additional exposure on Twitter and Facebook through giveaways, has officially launched its site, just in time for Mother’s Day with giveaways that include eReader Tablets, Jewelry and Ancestry.com subscription giveaways. Read the rest of this entry »

THQ and Relic Entertainment have announced that a sequel to its critically acclaimed strategy game Company of Heroes^®is scheduled to be taking PC gamers to the frozen frontlines of war in Russia in early 2013. As a true sequel, this game moves the battle away from the common Western Front focus of World War II and refocuses on some of history’s most brutal and devastating conflicts on the Eastern Front, challenging players to take command of the iconic Red Army and repel the Nazi invaders from the gates of Moscow. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) will embark on a cross-country Outreach tour starting May 7th in Toronto to answer questions regarding the changes to the CMF Guidelines for 2012-2013, the 2011-2012 funding results and the application process. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadians who have waiting 20 years to fight evil across the wicked world of Sanctuary can once again battle with the release of Diablo III at Future Shop. In celebration of the release of one of the world’s most successful Role Playing Game (RPG) series ever made, all Future Shop stores are opening early to satisfy gamer fixes for the third installment in the Diablo franchise by Blizzard Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite, makers of the market-leading social media management system, releases HootSuite Teams, tools aimed at serious business collaboration. With corporate social media exploding, businesses have been stuck using tools intended for the dorm room, not the boardroom. Until now. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday at the Hot Docs International Film Festival, TSN unveiled the slate of films in its ambitious original documentary series, Engraved on a Nation: Stories Of The Grey Cup, The CFL And Canada.  Commissioned by Bell Media, Engraved on a Nation celebrates the 100^th Grey Cup with eight original documentaries demonstrating how the Grey Cup has become such an intrinsic part of Canadian heritage. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a cross post with Canadian Online Gamers. Article written byMRBIGCAT

Recently, Canadian Online Gamers was invited to Ubisoft Montreal Studios to check out a single player hands off demo of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3, which is slated to arrive September 4th of this year.  At the end of the demo, I was impressed as Far Cry 3’s “branding of insanity” left a lasting impression.  Not to mention, the game even in pre-alpha stage looked pretty darn good, the characters appeared crazy as hell and the gameplay on the surface looks like it will be a blast.  Read the rest of this entry »

St. John’s-based indie developer Celsius Game Studios has opened a Kickstarter campaign to help move the production of its latest title towards completion. Drifter – A Space Trading Game is an open-world sandbox space trading game that takes place in a galaxy with thousands of stars and endless possibilities. Live the simple life of a merchant, become a bounty hunter, take on work for hire, become a fearsome pirate, or simply explore the galaxy around you, the choice is yours. Read the rest of this entry »

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is releasing immigration heritage online kits today at the TD National Reading Summit III: A Reading Canada-Building a Plan, in Vancouver. At the event, Fabien Lengellé, Director General of the Services Branch at LAC, presented the content of the kits and how they relate to the TD National Reading Summit themes of literacy and citizenship. Read the rest of this entry »