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Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS) is proud to announce Dr. Ray Muzyka as the opening keynote speaker for the 10th annual MIGS conference. Dr. Muzyka joins other high quality speakers from across the world, covering the gaming industry’s hot topics. About 2,000 attendees are expected to take part in the largest event for video game professionals on the East Coast. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF)has just announced the launch of the Digital Media Co-Production Incentive, a $350K pilot program designed to stimulate digital media co-productions between Canadian producers and their international counterparts. Read the rest of this entry »

In this latest Nintendo 3DS adventure, we travel along with the famous sibling plumbers on a vacation to Pi’illo Island, which of course is not the simple pleasure trip it appears to be. There are new characters and villains (along with the long-familiar ones) to chat up and combat, and as you can expect from a Mario title, there’s a healthy helping of puzzles to solve. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team is a combination of colourful 3D levels and classic 2D side-scrolling action, and in this aspect the game really does shine. There was obviously much time spent in development perfecting this new world into a place that it seems only Nintendo can produce while making full use of the 3DS’ abilities. Read the rest of this entry »

The Province of BC recently launched iMapBC 2.0, an upgraded version of its popular online mapping toolkit that will provide improved access to thousands of geographical datasets. Information on the new iMapBC 2.0 will be available for delegates at this week’s Municipal Information Systems Association (MISA) Conference in Whistler. Version 2.0 is a significant upgrade to the free, user-friendly web-mapping application, and provides a better experience for developers and end-users who want to use to government map data online. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the Romance Writers of America more than 74 million people read romance novels each year, with women accounting for 91% of this massive audience. Silicon Sisters, a developer of video games for women, is bringing this well-loved genre to life in a tantalizing new way with Everlove: Rose, an interactive romance novel for iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook HD, and other Android and Apple devices. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management developer OpenText™ has announced that the company has been named a leader across multiple categories in Computer-Based Fax Markets, 2012-2017, a recent report published by leading fax industry analyst firm, Davidson Consulting. Recognized as the #1 provider of fax servers, the #1 FoIP supplier and the #1 production fax server supplier, OpenText continues to strengthen its position as the market leader in messaging services, while moving to the forefront of the rapidly emerging hybrid faxing market forecasted to “more than double in size by 2017.”¹ In November 2012, Davidson Consulting also listed OpenText as the #1 provider of Enterprise Fax Service.^{2 Read the rest of this entry »}

Ubisoft® has announced a fourth character will join the ranks of heroes in The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot: The Runaway. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is a hilarious free-to-play PC game that thrusts the player in an outrageous medieval fantasy world called Opulencia where wealth, status and showboating are the name of the game! Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has published its online Annual Report for the 2012-2013 fiscal year which outlines its role in shaping Canada’s creative economy and digital landscape. The Annual Report provides a complete overview of the CMF’s activities throughout 2012-2013. It contains detailed information on funding results as well as data on the success of projects funded by the CMF in terms of audience, critical acclaim and international sales. The complete financial overview section includes the Independent Auditors’ Report and Financial Statements. Read the rest of this entry »

BroadbandTV, one of the largest Multi-Channel Networks (MCN) on YouTube, signaled its continued growth today by announcing that it has reached a billion monthly impressions. The network now boasts more than 100 million subscribers from over 10,000 content partners, an increase of 2,200 content partners in just two months. In June this year, the company announced an initial $36 million investment from RTL Group, the leading European entertainment network. At the time, the deal marked the largest private placement in a Canadian Internet media company since 2007 and will support the business in its expansion plans. Read the rest of this entry »

Fifteen open, online textbooks in subject areas ranging from math and chemistry to marketing, psychology, and business have been reviewed by post-secondary faculty and are now freely available for download from BCcampus. More than 38 instructors and professors from post-secondary institutions around the province reviewed existing open textbooks for quality and relevance in British Columbia. These 15 textbooks have been found to be of high quality and appropriate for use in B.C. institutions (complete list below). Read the rest of this entry »