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Ubisoft^® has announced that Tom Clancy’s™ Splinter Cell^® Blacklist™, the latest entry in the iconic Tom Clancy franchise, is now available in the UK for the PlayStation^®3, Xbox 360^®, Wii U™ and PC.  As lethal operative Sam Fisher, players are given a new mandate to hunt down the masterminds behind the Blacklist, a series of escalating terrorist attacks on U.S interests.  Developed by Ubisoft Toronto, with support from Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Shanghai. Read the rest of this entry »

In this new video from Ubisoft, gamers can watch pirate and assassin Captain Edward Kenway silently stalk his enemies across cities, rooftops and jungles as stealth is back with a renewed focus in Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag featuring new gameplay mechanics, features and weapons such as the lethal blowpipe. Read the rest of this entry »

The Year of Luigi is going strong. So far, Luigi has explored multiple haunted mansions in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon for Nintendo 3DS, partnered up with his brother in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, also for Nintendo 3DS, and taken the Wii U downloadable content world by storm in New Super Luigi U. Nintendo has announced that on August 25th, New Super Luigi U will be available as a packaged-disc version for Wii U that will be sold in retail stores. The game joins the downloadable version available in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U. Read the rest of this entry »

Broadcasters, producers and their advertising partners who invest in research and development, as well as in extensive promotion of their second screen apps, will benefit the most from this rapidly growing market. This is just one of the conclusions to be found in The Second Screen and Television — Production and Deployment, which completes a series of white papers exploring the second screen phenomenon and interactive TV apps. Read the rest of this entry »

The Edmonton Expo is back in full force at the Edmonton Expo Centre for its second year this September 28-29 and its ready to deliver triple the action with over 150,000 square feet making this the ultimate all-ages playground for the City of Champions to explore their inner geek in all facets of pop-culture including comics, gaming, anime, horror, fantasy, cartoons, and sci-fi. Read the rest of this entry »

Talent INC Canada has quickly become a hot bed for the entertainment industry by providing quality training and the unique opportunity to network with top industry professionals. The Canadian National Conference hosted by Talent INC is celebrating it’s second season of success by announcing the overall winners of full scholarships to the next showcase. Read the rest of this entry »

Veteran Concert Promoter Denis Benoit has announced the launch of a new Artist Management Company, Benoit Music Group. The company offers Artist Management services for both emerging and established recording artists across all musical genres. Read the rest of this entry »

Music for Productions has just announced that they have added new production music for film and TV. The service offers tracks and original scores for broadcasting, film and television that maintain the quality and standards that are necessary for professional audio tracks. Music for Productions works with new and popular composers to bring the best stock music quality to their clients, and releases new production music for film and TV on a regular basis, to keep productions fresh and to offer the widest variety of production music on the market. Read the rest of this entry »

The essence of weekend living will soon be available 24/7 on television with the launch of the new Cottage Life channel. Building on the over 25 year history of this iconic brand, viewers can tune-in starting Wednesday September 4^th to watch new, exclusive shows on favourite themes like DIY, food, real estate and outdoor living to bring the lifestyle home. Read the rest of this entry »

Qwyrk Media Inc. has announced the launch of a new app that lets users personalize email and social media messages with music, movie quotes and sound effects. Available throughout North America, Qwyrk is an innovative application for audio “social self-expression” that allows users to add up to 24 seconds of a song, movie clip or sound effect to an email, Facebook post or tweet. Drawing from some of the world’s top record labels, movie studios and sound effect libraries, Qwyrk provides access to millions of licensed audio tracks which can be edited to complement just about any digital message, and sent or shared to make friends laugh, cry or smile. Read the rest of this entry »