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Organizers have officially opened submissions for the 2013 Independent Games Festival, to be held at GDC 2013 in San Francisco next March. The longest-running and highest-profile independent video game festival, summit and showcase is now accepting entries to the 15th annual Festival, with deadlines in the Main and Student Showcase categories by October 17th and October 31st respectively, and finalists to be announced on January 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

MasterCard Canada has made its first public release of insights from SpendingPulse, a product of MasterCard Advisors, which highlights total retail sales – across all payment forms including cash and cheque – as well as sales in four key retail categories: e-Commerce, Grocery, Department Stores and Gasoline. Read the rest of this entry »

Scotiabank and SHOP.CA have announced a new exclusive rewards opportunity for the increasing number of Canadians who do their shopping online. From now until December 31, 2012, Scotiabank customers will earn extra SHOP.CA Rewards when making purchases at SHOP.CA using their Scotiabank credit or debit card. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. has licensed the fourth season of its popular series Martha Speaks to British Columbia’s Knowledge Network, with the broadcaster also acquiring the headline preschool show Rastamouse for its Canadian channel, BBC Kids. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s macProVideo.com has announced the purchase of Toronto-based online software training website, AskVideo.com. The deal includes AskVideo.com‘s full catalogue, brand, and other operational assets. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian group buying site WagJag has announced the asset acquisition of Yellow Media Inc.’s Deal of the Day business. This transaction will increase WagJag’s subscriber list and provide additional reach for its merchants. This acquisition adds to WagJag’s appeal among local and national businesses and allows it to position itself favourably to develop new services for merchants and bring more offers to its growing membership base. Read the rest of this entry »

TELETOON Canada Inc. is pleased to offer Canadians coast-to-coast free access to TELETOON during the TELETOON Free Preview event from Wednesday, August 15, 2012 to Sunday, September 30, 2012. Throughout this period, subscribers of participating television service providers can tune into TELETOON’s English- or French-language linear, Video On Demand and broadband services (where available) to sample an unbeatable lineup of comedy, action and blockbuster movie programming for kids, families and young adults. Read the rest of this entry »

Blue Ant Media CEO Michael MacMillan has announced management changes following the merging of the company’s recently acquired High Fidelity HDTV and GlassBOX Television under Blue Ant Media. Robb Chase continues as COO, Blue Ant Media where he is responsible for corporate development and will work closely with the Television & Digital management team in support of their efforts. Read the rest of this entry »

Launching day and date with the Xbox 360 and PS3 releases next week, Sleeping Dogs for Windows PCs is set to ship with a stunning set of PC-specific features to bring Hong Kong island to life. With an array of advanced graphical features on-board, the Windows PC release gives gamers with the hardware bandwidth a host of graphical enhancements, hardware optimizations and support for the latest AMD and Nvidia features. Read the rest of this entry »