• Village Gamer

  • New Canada Media Fund Accelerator Partnership Pilot Program

15th October 2013

New Canada Media Fund Accelerator Partnership Pilot Program

Canada Media FundThe Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced today a new pilot program designed to offer existing Experimental Stream funded projects with increased access to mentorship, markets, and capital. The Accelerator Partnership Pilot Program (A3P), with a budget of $360K, will support digital media projects that have previously received Experimental Stream funding for development or production by enabling their producers to enroll in acceleration programs. The A3P guidelines can be reviewed in an online PDF document. Read the rest of this entry »

Currenty 2 Comments - Share Your Thoughts

posted in Careers, Government, National News By: | Print This Post Print This Post

15th October 2013

Whistler Film Festival’s Coveted Borsos Competition Celebrates 10th Anniversary

whistler film festivalThe Whistler Film Festival is pleased to announce the six films that will compete in the 10th annual Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature Film for a cash prize of $15,000, the second largest cash prize for a Canadian film in the country. Launched in 2004 in honor of legendary Canadian filmmaker Phillip Borsos, the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature Film, celebrates independent vision, original directorial style and the diversity of talent found in Canadian film. Read the rest of this entry »

Currenty 3 Comments - Share Your Thoughts

posted in Awards, Events, National News By: | Print This Post Print This Post

15th October 2013

Aegis Mobility Creates The Industry’s First Safe Driving Enforcement Solution for Apple iOS

aegis mobilityAegis Mobility, a Burnaby-based developer of solutions to prevent distracted driving, announced today that it has created the industry’s first safe driving solution for Apple’s iOS operating system that provides policy enforcement. Apple’s iOS operating system presents unique characteristics for enterprise applications. It is well understood and accepted that such characteristics have, up until now, presented challenges for safe driving policy enforcement. Read the rest of this entry »

Currenty 3 Comments - Share Your Thoughts

posted in Digital Products, National News, New Releases By: | Print This Post Print This Post

15th October 2013

CiRBA And GigaOM Research To Present Webcast On Internal Cloud Management

cirbaAutomated Capacity Control Software provider CiRBA Inc. has announced that it will participate in a live Webcast on October 24, 2013 at 1 p.m. ET entitled “Internal Cloud Management: Bringing Order from Chaos.” This one-hour roundtable will be moderated by Barb Goldworm, president and chief analyst, FOCUS, LLC and will include Jo Maitland, research director at GigaOM Research and 15-year veteran of the IT industry, and Andrew Hillier, CiRBA’s co-founder and CTO, who has nearly 20 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for global organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

Currently 1 Comment - Share Your Thoughts

posted in Business News, Events, National News By: | Print This Post Print This Post

15th October 2013

Ubisoft Delays Watch_Dogs Until Spring 2014

ubisoft canadaIn a statement released just over an hour ago, Ubisoft has announced that the much-awaited game Watch Dogs will be delayed until the Spring of 2014. This news is disappointing to the Village Gamer house as this is one of the few games we’ve put on pre-order for the Wii U – we were looking forward to seeing how this action title would play with the extra screen. Following is a statement directly from the Watch_Dogs development teams: Read the rest of this entry »

Currently 1 Comment - Share Your Thoughts

posted in Action Adventure, Mature, National News, Upcoming Releases By: | Print This Post Print This Post

  • Archives

  • Subscribe to our Newsletter


  • Select a list:

  • GWEN Radio
  • Gamers Giving Back