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Vancouver Animation School, a Canadian educational institution offering entry level and advanced programs for the animation, visual effects and video game industries, announced yesterday that the school has received its official accreditation from the accrediting body of British Columbia. Read the rest of this entry »

The BC provincial government is opening the lines of communication so British Columbians can speak up about the future of digital services and the tools that deliver them, including the BC Services Card. This fall, government will undertake a provincewide citizen consultation process to gain a better understanding of British Columbians’ priorities, expectations and vision for the future delivery of government services digitally, with a specific focus on how the BC Services Card may be used as a key tool to enable this vision. Read the rest of this entry »

Now available in public beta on Facebook is Chat Fu social game, the first major release from Toronto’s Blot Interactive. With Chat Fu, you can transform the world’s most popular social network into a word game of wits, wiles and Wushu. Mixing Kung Fu, wordplay and chat, it’s like no social game you’ve ever experienced. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile security and risk management solutions provider Fixmo and BlackBerry® have announced plans to bring the Fixmo Sentinel device integrity verification and tamper detection solution to the BlackBerry® 10 platform. Fixmo Sentinel is used today throughout the U.S. Federal Government to meet the Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIGs) for mobile device deployments. Today’s announcement expands on a collaborative effort between Fixmo and BlackBerry that began in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

The sense of discovery from exploring a beautiful alien planet. The exhilaration of battling an imaginative array of strange creatures. The heartache of losing some of your devoted Pikmin to a hostile world. The satisfaction of leading an army of loyal Pikmin to victory. These are some of the feelings experienced when playing Pikmin 3, launching in stores and in the Nintendo eShop on August 4, exclusively for the Wii U console. From the mind of Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of iconic series like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong, Pikmin is back… and the intergalactic adventure of a lifetime is about to begin. Watch for Village Gamer’s review of Pikmin 3 coming very soon to this site. Read the rest of this entry »

Hot on the heels of the epic first season of Big Brother Canada, the country’s biggest specialty reality series of the year, Shaw Media and Insight Productions announced today that the national casting call for season two is now open. Canadians 19 years and older are invited to apply online and/or this fall in person at open casting calls in select cities across Canada. The submission deadline is October 25, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Sprylogics International Corp., an Ontario-based international provider of innovative mobile search and messaging monetization services, has announced that further to the press release of July 17, 2013, the Company has completed the acquisition of Alberta-based mobile local search service provider Poynt Inc. Read the rest of this entry »

Liverpool Football Club has announced a new three-year partnership with Electronic Arts Inc. that will make EA Sports^TM the Club’s Official Football Video Gaming Partner commencing from the start of the 2013/14 Barclays Premier League season. Through the partnership, EA Sports will give Liverpool FC fans the opportunity to play FIFA 14 at Anfield for selected fixtures throughout the season. EA SPORTS Goal of the Month will also offer fans the chance to upload their best FIFA 14 goals for a chance to win great prizes all season long. Read the rest of this entry »

Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts and developers of the acclaimed CanIt-PRO, CanIt-Domain-PRO, CanIt Archiver and Hosted CanIt anti-spam and email archiving solutions, are pleased to announce that they will be a Gold Level Sponsor of the upcoming 2013 N-Able Partner Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition to sponsoring the event, David Skoll, President and CTO of Roaring Penguin will speak to the gathered N-Able MSPs on e-mail security. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) developer OpenText™, announced yesterday that it has acquired its long-time BPM technology partner, ICCM Solutions – a leading provider of process applications based on the OpenText Business Process Management (BPM) platform. Based in Malmesbury, United Kingdom, ICCM Solutions has approximately 200 customers worldwide using its solutions, including two of the five largest service desks in the world. Read the rest of this entry »