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Sad Cat Software has announced the launch of Train Titans for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. An exciting new puzzle adventure, Train Titans challenges you to create working railroad tracks that get multiple trains to and from various cities without crashing. But your job isn’t done once tracks are built! Players have to guide every train to make sure it follows the right path, makes the right turns, and avoids trouble. Read the rest of this entry »

A unique and exciting edutainment app for kids is available now on iTunes. TouchTilt Games, a young company based in Halifax, has released an educational game called Tiny Diggers for kids who love construction trucks and getting their hands dirty – without the dirt. Read the rest of this entry »

Sound Touch Interactive, an emerging new mobile software and applications developer in Vancouver, has announced the release of Music Color 1.1 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. A revolutionary learning utility geared towards young kids and designed by parents, this unique app uses a wealth of classical music to teach users every color of the spectrum with effective and entertaining touch based activities. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced that its real-time board game title Assassin’s Creed® Recollection for iPad, is now available for a very limited time on the App Store, for free. Designed and optimized to take full advantage of the large display and Multi-Touch interface of iPad, Assassin’s Creed Recollection allows players to live an entirely new experience in the world of Assassin’s Creed. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal-based regulated gaming industry developer Amaya Gaming Group Inc. is set to launch its first mobile and tablet casino games offerings, including a selection of its proven and popular slots and card game titles. Amaya’s mobile casino games will be available in the second quarter, with plans for more best of breed mobile games to be released as part of a phased roll out through 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Catch the Monkey by Mirthwerx has officially launched in the Apple App Store for $0.99 USD. This innovative game bucks the action-game trend of using violence to overcome obstacles. In Catch the Monkey, adorable and curious monkeys invade an elderly farmer’s field. Players help remove them by using a variety of humorous and non-violent tools. Game developer Mirthwerx found this radical approach so conceptually difficult, that it almost didn’t happen. Read the rest of this entry »

Hothead Games has launched a significant update for the colorful side-scrolling iOS swimming game, Sea Stars. Version 1.3 introduces two new seascapes, three new swimmers, and a new sea buddy aid. The game has also been localized for Simplified Chinese, Korean, and the popular European, Swedish store. To celebrate, the Sea Stars is now available on the App Store for free. Read the rest of this entry »

Organized by Interactive Ontario, GameON: Finance connects the games industry’s leading players to new business opportunities in the interactive entertainment industries.

While the first day offered a variety of sessions on venture capital, project-funding, value of analytics, lean start-up models, and exit strategies, there was a single and consistant message to game studios: Read the rest of this entry »

Alberta-based app developer Robots and Pencils challenges you to save the damsel in distress over and over and over again in its new physics-based puzzle game Catch the Princess HD. Play through more than 60 dungeon levels with a wide variety of challenges, cutting the chains that bind the poor princess to the ceiling. Plan your moves carefully, using bellows, pixie dust and physics to swing the princess’ cage past dangerous obstacles, as you guide her into the waiting arms of a fang-toothed admirer. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver game studio Rude Boy Games has come out of stealth mode to launch their new twist on social games. Zwonks is an addictive social collecting game that uses friend-to-friend messaging as part of its novel gameplay. The hottest in collectible virtual toys, Zwonks are quirky creatures that can be customized, accessorized, and shared with friends through Kik Messenger and email. Read the rest of this entry »