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Boingo Wireless, a Los Angeles-based DAS and Wi-Fi provider that serves consumers, carriers and advertisers worldwide, today announced the expansion of the company’s Wi-Fi advertising network in Canada, via new agreements with retail Wi-Fi solutions provider BOLDstreet Wireless. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are the basic facts and features for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins from WB Games Montréal (multiplayer by Splash Damage). According to the game’s release date, I have two months to finish Batman: Arkham Asylum (about 50% complete) and Batman: Arkham City, which I haven’t even opened yet. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent game development studio Red Barrels announced today that its highly anticipated – and widely feared – survival horror game Outlast is now available for pre-order on Steam. Starting today through the PC launch on September 4, 2013, gamers who pre-order Outlast will receive a 20 percent discount off of the $19.99 price. Read the rest of this entry »

LevelUp, The Vancouver Island game industry association, will be welcoming dozens of video game developers from across North America this fall for the fourth edition of OrcaJam as part of the inaugural Thinklandia Festival. So what’s an OrcaJam? Simply put, it’s an event where a group of like-minded people get together and work on what they love; making games for 48 hours straight. Programmers, artists, audio engineers, board game designers… anyone interested in game development is welcome. Kicking off Friday, September 6th (6pm), and running through Sunday September 8th (6pm), OrcaJam lasts the entire weekend and includes a series of panel discussions, keynote speakers, a game showcase and judging panel and prizes at the end! Read the rest of this entry »

Producing revenues of $1.4 billion with 16,000 highly skilled workers, the globally renowned software clusters of Ottawa, Waterloo Region and London are collaborating with the gaming and entertainment hotbed of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to create a broad digital ecosystem across Ontario, Canada’s largest province by population. Economic development executives representing these regions as the Ontario Technology Corridor, together with provincial representatives federal government support, are attending gamescom 2013. The purpose of this investment mission is to promote the Ontario Technology Corridor and invite foreign companies to join over 1,000 interactive digital media firms currently thriving in the province. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment have unveiled a new trailer for Batman™: Arkham Origins at gamescom in Cologne. Titled Nowhere to Run, the trailer showcases the indomitable super villains hell-bent on taking down the Bat and gives a first look at Firefly, one of the eight assassins featured in Batman: Arkham Origins, capable of raining fire from above. Read the rest of this entry »

The countdown has begun to Whistler’s 13th annual cinematic celebration. The Whistler Film Festival returns December 4 to 8, 2013 and with 16 weeks to go, the Festival is proud to offer a sneak peek of confirmed films and highlights from its Summit industry program. Set in North America’s premiere destination mountain resort, the Whistler Film Festival combines an international film competition with a screen-based industry Summit organized to address the ever-evolving landscape crossing borders and platforms in the digital age. The Festival hosts filmmaking luminaries for an intimate five-day program featuring up to 90 original films from Canada and around the world, filmmaker tributes, special events, and industry initiatives. Recognized by filmmakers and film lovers alike as one of Canada’s most important showcases for film, WFF is a place where artists are celebrated, audiences are inspired, new ideas are discussed, and business opportunities are solidified. Read the rest of this entry »

Today at the Sony Computer Entertainment press conference at Gamescom, Ubisoft® announced that its film and television division, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, is collaborating with Sony Pictures Entertainment and New Regency on development of a feature film based on Watch Dogs™, Ubisoft’s highly anticipated open-world action-adventure video game. Ubisoft and Sony also showed a first look at the exclusive Watch Dogs gameplay that will be available for PlayStation®4 later this year. In the trailer, discover DedSec, the most famous hacker group in the universe of Watch_Dogs and hear their message of truth: “The ctOS system is flawed, it is time to wake up!” Read the rest of this entry »

Today at gamescom EA Sports™ unveiled the first ever pre-alpha gameplay footage for the highly anticipated EA Sports UFC, currently in development at the EA Canada campus in Burnaby. Powered by EA Sports Ignite, players will “Feel the Fight”  as the action, emotion, and intensity inside the Octagon™ are brought to life in ways that were never before possible in a video game. The next generation of fighting begins in the Spring of 2014 when  EA Sports UFC is released for the Xbox One^® and the PlayStation^®4. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts Inc. has announced that EA Sports™ is bringing legendary players such as Pelé, Patrick Vieira, and Ruud Gullit, to FIFA 14 Ultimate Team to the Xbox 360® and Xbox One®. Fans will be able to craft their FIFA 14 Ultimate Team with a mix of legendary players playing alongside today’s stars. Each Legend will have unique attributes that will showcase the skills and flair that made them legendary at the height of their careers, and will be randomly included in Gold Packs in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team beginning with the launch of the Xbox One. The star-studded lineup of football legends revealed today features: Read the rest of this entry »