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Former NHL player Georges Laraque is pleased to announce his involvement with 321 Fame, a newly established website promoting talented individuals from all over the world in the context of an anti-bullying forum. As a father and someone who was bullied as a youth, Laraque sees the value of a showcase for talent that is free from bullying. Read the rest of this entry »

CTV has announced that it will present the world broadcast premiere and first-ever network run of the hit conspiracy thriller Orphan Black later this summer. The Space original series from Temple Street Productions, produced in partnership with BBC America, will be introduced to new viewers on Friday, Aug. 16 when it begins its first-ever run on a conventional network, leading to a Season 1 finale on CTV in the heat of the fall season in mid-October. The 10-episode, one-hour series will air in primetime Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times and on the CTV Mobile channel on Bell Mobile TV. Season 2 of Orphan Black was ordered by Space and BBC America in May, with production on 10 new episodes set to begin this September in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

US-based blurbIQ Inc., whose patent-pending interactive video advertising platform allows advertisers and publishers to use dynamic overlay to drive consumers to interact with their video messaging, today announced that SourceKnowledge, a Montreal-based online video company that reaches more than 26.2 million monthly users and serves over 100 million video streams a month in the USA and Canada, has begun to offer its advertising clients blurbIQ’s interactive video ad units.  Read the rest of this entry »

With its latest stamp release in the Canadian recording artists series, Canada Post is paying tribute to music’s living legends, and making history in the process. For the first time, bands – rather than individual performers – are being featured on its stamps, including RUSH, The Tragically Hip, The Guess Who and Beau Dommage. Collectively, the featured bands have sold tens of millions of records worldwide and achieved critical success that has earned them an array of awards. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced “Assassin’s Creed: Brahman”, a new graphic novel set to launch this fall in North America that whisks fans away to 19th century India – a land of mysterious golden palaces and cursed treasure chambers held in the iron grip of British colonial rule. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has revealed Copperhead as one of the eight assassins featured in Batman: Arkham Origins. The character was unveiled at Comic-Con International in San Diego at a panel for the game, which included WB Games Montréal Creative Director Eric Holmes, Armature Studios Game Director Mark Pacini, DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, and actors Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker, the voices of Batman and The Joker, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

Designed for the entrepreneurial owners of established businesses, the PROFIT Growth Summit taking place in Vancouver on September 10th will connect you with the people and ideas that can take your enterprise to the next level. The first 200 registrants will receive free copies of the books Ownership Thinking and Relevant Selling. The early-bird rate of $249 is available until August 1st. Registration after August 1st will cost $329. The Summit will be held at the Fairmont Pacific Rim from 7:30am until 5:00pm. Read the rest of this entry »

At long last, Super NES classic EarthBound is now available as a Virtual Console game in the Nintendo eShop for Wii U for $9.99. Nintendo announced its availability during today’s Nintendo Direct Mini video. Nintendo also revealed that Nintendo Zone locations will be getting StreetPass enhancements to let players connect with one another, and reminded people about this weekend’s Pikmin 3 demo program at select EB Games stores. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced the Limited Edition Pack contents of the open world action-adventure game, Watch Dogs™. The Limited Edition Pack will be available on November 19 across retailers in North America for $129.99 for PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and Xbox One®, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, at their respective system launches, along with its release on PlayStation®3, Xbox 360® and Windows® PC. Fans can stay connected to the world of Watch Dogs with the following contents available in the Limited Edition Pack: Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced that 17 interactive digital media projects received a total of $12.1M in funding as part of the first round of production support from the Experimental Stream.  The Experimental Stream encourages the creation of innovative, interactive digital media content and software applications. Read the rest of this entry »