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Bartsoft Inc. has launched 20 new greeting cards and frames for both versions of eCard Express for iPhone and eCard Express HD for iPad. This new update includes both nice classical and humorous cartoon style cards and frames for existing application categories like Thanksgiving, Love & Friendship, Thank You For Your Business, New Home, Encouragement Cards For Kids, Birthday. All of these new cards are free of charge for current eCard Express users. And now the total selection of available cards for each application reached number 240. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc. is excited to bring two new games to the App Store today. Both Dark Incursion and Hamster Cannon are universal apps designed to run on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad mobile devices running iOS 3.0 or later. Hamster Cannon is priced at $0.99 USD while Dark Incursion is priced at $1.99 USD. Read the rest of this entry »

TVO has launched five new educational apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet from TVOKids. Offering parents a safe, educational alternative in gaming, TVO’s apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook support a wide range of learning objectives from the Ontario school curriculum including: math, science, reading and writing. All TVOKids content is developed using TVO’s Educational Blueprint, a rigorous process which ensures a quality educational experience, and is tested in classrooms with teachers, students and TVO’s on-staff educational expert. Read the rest of this entry »

Media Awareness Network (MNet) has launched Privacy Pirates, a new interactive resource to teach children about online privacy and how to distinguish between public and private information when playing on the Internet. The game was unveiled today by MNet’s Director of Education Matthew Johnson at the Prince Edward Island Teachers’ Federation Conference in Charlottetown. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobo has announced the new Kobo Vox eReader, the world’s first social eReader.  The Kobo Vox, inspired by “Vox Populi” meaning the voice of the people, enables readers to start conversations with other readers and discover new books and authors through their social network.  With a vivid color display, Kobo takes the reading experience to a whole new level and offers even more content – rich color books, newspapers, magazines, games, music, video, games and social feeds – all on an open Android platform. Read the rest of this entry »

TransGaming Inc. and  Activision Publishing, Inc. have announced that Activision’s innovative new game, Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure™, has been brought to the Mac platform using TransGaming’s Mac enablement technology so that Spyro fans around the world can enjoy the game on their Mac computers. Read the rest of this entry »

Deus Ex: Human Revolution™ – The Missing Link downloadable content (DLC) is now available in Europe and PAL territories for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, OnLive®, and Windows PC platforms via Steam® and other participating online retailers. It will be available in these territories for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system tomorrow, October 19. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has just announced PowerUp Heroes, the ultimate superpower-infused full-body combat game exclusively on Kinect™ for Xbox 360®. Developed by Ubisoft Quebec, PowerUp Heroes lets players transform their Xbox LIVE Avatar into a custom superhero to face off in a fight against the forces of evil. The new game is available now at retailers in North America as well as at UBIShop for $49.99 (SRP) and is rated E10+ by the ESRB. The first 100,000 copies of PowerUp Heroes will include a free limited-edition comic book. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc. announced today that Burn the Rope Worlds HD has come to the big screen and is now available on the iPad.  Burn the Rope Worlds HD follows in the footsteps of the original game with 100 more levels, four different and exciting worlds, and a brand new mini-game called Endless Burn. In this new game, the player can experience the fun by travelling to new and exotic places like the Jungle, Mechanical, Fantasy, and Space worlds. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Ortsbo Inc. has launched a proprietary real time multi-language plug-in for WordPress, allowing blogs to be instantly translated, in real time, into over 50 languages. Over 300 Million people each month read over 2.5 Billion blog pages created through WordPress, the world’s leading blogging software. To date, there have been over 225 Million downloads of WordPress plug-ins globally. Read the rest of this entry »