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Fire up the grill and become everyone’s favorite meat man with the BBQ CHEF skill pack for Dead Rising 2 Off The Record from the Capcom Vancouver Game Studio. Get beefier attacks with the knife and cleaver, gain more health from delicious meats, cause bigger explosions to charbroil any zombies in range and make fatal use of the condiment bar! Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most stylish, haunting and affecting titles of the year, The War of the Worlds from Other Ocean Interactive, now has awesome Avatar items for Xbox LIVE users. Show off to your friends with these stylish items that let them know you’re ready to take on the alien invasion. The War of the Worlds is available now on Xbox Live for 800 MS Points and is rated E10 by the ESRB. Read the rest of this entry »

The release of Motionsports Adrenaline, the world’s most extreme sports game available on Kinect™ for Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3 with PlayStation®Move compatibility is complete. Developed by Ubisoft Vancouver, Motionsports Adrenaline allows players to release their inner daredevil, taking part in events they would never dream of attempting in real life. Read the rest of this entry »

Other Ocean Interactive, an acclaimed independent developer with a mastery of creating modern games with a retro feel like Dark Void Zero and the XBLA conversion of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, has announced that its highly anticipated side-scrolling platformer, The War of the Worlds, has launched on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® for $10.00 (800 Microsoft Points). The War of the Worlds offers an awe-inspiring take one of the most well-known science fiction stories of all time. Read the rest of this entry »

With Halloween season kicking off this week, Pocket Cocktails has updated its signature iPhone (99 cents) and iPad ($2.99) apps with a spooky collection of new drinks. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and Pocket Cocktails has got boatloads of them, in fact every cocktail in this app has an accompanying photo. So when preparing a Bloody Brain or Eyeball Martini there’s a handy pic to help illustrate how the drink should look as its prepared. The Random Mode turns the phone into a shaker complete with sound effects, a great conversation starter. Read the rest of this entry »

AudienceView Ticketing, an innovative and influential Primary Ticketing solutions provider has announced the introduction of AudienceView Tiki, a new distribution channel for online ticketing, through Facebook. The AudienceView Tiki service is the first fully integrated Facebook ticketing service in the market that exploits the tremendous potential of social commerce. Facebook users never leave the Facebook network, completing transactions and sharing that information immediately with friends. Read the rest of this entry »

Meanwhile in Vancouver, residential energy management product developer Rainforest Automation unveiled its new SWIFT™ Smart Energy Wireless Information Terminal product along with Bit Stew’s Grid Director 2.0 Device Management Platform.  The SWIFT™ is a Home Area Network (HAN) device that displays home energy use on an 8-inch color touch screen.  It comes bundled with Rainforest’s popular RAVEn™ USB adapter that communicates directly with smart meters that have been equipped with ZigBee® Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 1.x wireless capability.  The SWIFT™ also has a built-in Wi-Fi radio with gateway software based on the preliminary version of SEP 2.0 recently approved by the ZigBee® Alliance. Read the rest of this entry »

I am slowly catching up with all of the news that came out while we were without internet for 30+ hours thanks to some idiot copper thieves who can’t tell the difference between Telus’ copper phone wires and Shaw’s fibre optic cables. One of the new releases I was unable to tell you about is the new Halloween version of Toppling Towers, a newly-released universal iOS game developed by Vancouver’s Harmony Arcade and published by Big Fish Games. Read the rest of this entry »

MediaSpark CEO Mathew Georghiou made a series of announcements late last week about the company’s GoVenture Any Business educational simulation, which has already received a Gold Omni Award with a perfect 10.0 judging score.  Unlike other business simulations, Any Business allows teachers and corporate trainers to create highly-customized, online, head-to-head, multiplayer business simulations for any product in any industry and in any market.  Simulations can be designed to model current events, historical successes and failures, or to target specific challenges and learning outcomes. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto publisher G4BOX Inc. has released a Halloween update for its free-to-play military shooter Cross Fire. The free update features Halloween-themed weapons and equipment, a Halloween map, a new Search and Destroy map, a new display resolution, and more!   For current players, the Halloween update will download automatically upon launching Cross Fire. Read the rest of this entry »