Village Gamer

Hut hut! After 200 million games played across the chart-topping Big Win Sports franchise, the long awaited American Football game from Hothead is now available for free for iOS and Android gamers. Kick off the American Football season by creating your own dream team and then sit back and watch them crush your online competition. Use Big Impact cards to throw bombs, make game-changing interceptions, power through impenetrable defenses and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has announced a new integration with Webtrends Analytics, widening the scope of measurement tools available to HootSuite Enterprise clients. The HootSuite-Webtrends integration provides the performance data organizations need to properly evaluate the return of investment of their social activities. The auto-generated reports can be customized to show connections between social media messages and website conversion statistics, providing the level of measurement consistent with SEM and display ad markets for accurate comparison across channels. The integrated HootSuite-Webtrends capabilities are now available free to HootSuite Enterprise and Webtrends Analytics On-Demand clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Gamercamp is thrilled to announce that Dean Hall, creator of survival horror simulation DayZ, has been added to its stellar lineup as the festival’s International Keynote. Hall is the latest to join Gamercamp’s speaker lineup, which includes game industry heavyweights from across North America, including Pat Redding from Ubisoft Toronto (Splinter Cell Blacklist), Chris Harvey from DrinkBox Studios (Guacamelee), Vander Caballero from Minority Media (Papo & Yo), Mary De Marle from Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex: Human Revolution), among many others. Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo Canada announced the launch of two new software titles yesterday that will have people broadening their artistic horizons and deepening their love of creative wordplay. Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! and Crosswords Plus are now available for the portable Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL systems, giving consumers a variety of fun ways to learn about how to draw and paint or challenge their puzzle-solving skills anytime, anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal digital publisher Strategy First Inc and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) are teaming up to fight back against Cancer.During the entire month of October fifty percent from every purchase from the publisher’s site will be donated to help find a cure for Breast Cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal-based Behaviour Interactive is celebrating its 20^th anniversary. Through the years, the studio has developed over 140 titles across all major platforms, from games based on leading brands for the whole family, like Tetris and Brave, to original IPs like Assault Heroes™, WET™ and Naughty Bear™ (one of my personal favourites) for a core gaming audience.  With today’s anniversary, the company emphasizes its focus on leading the independent gaming scene in Montreal through the development of games on mobile, online and on social networks, while continuing to offer exciting experiences on game consoles. Read the rest of this entry »

prairieFyre Software, a Microsoft Gold Communications and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Competency Partner developing unified communications and contact center solutions, is proud to announce the general availability of their Contact Center for Microsoft Lync Version 5.10.1. Read the rest of this entry »

Toon Boom Animation Inc. and California-based Bento Box Entertainment (“BBE”) have combined their expertise to develop an exclusive and state-of-the-art digital animation production pipeline uniquely designed for Bento Box’s production on prime-time animated television series, among them Bob’s Burgers, Allen Gregory, and the upcoming new series Brickleberry, Out There, and The Awesomes, as well as multiple Network prime-time animation pilots. The all-digital global workflow methodology set up under the arrangement is on the industry’s cutting edge, and Toon Boom and BBE will be promoting the innovative pipeline and processes to other studios around the world that could potentially benefit from this customized methodology. Read the rest of this entry »

AOL Canada has announced the launch of Project Devil 2, the next phase of AOL’s continued focus on innovation in premium branded display. Project Devil, launched in the U.S. in September 2010 at Advertising Week, and in Canada in April 2011, was AOL’s foray into revolutionizing premium display on the Web. After two years of advertiser input across categories including Entertainment, Retail, CPG, Finance, and Travel, AOL has added to its portfolio of premium ad units. The new 300×1050 has two applications within the unit, allowing the brand marketer to utilize a larger high-definition brand asset in the top module to drive a more enhanced experience for consumers. A smaller 300×600 unit features one large application. AOL has also added support for additional IAB Rising Stars display ad units such as the Filmstrip and Billboard to its diverse portfolio. The announcement was made at Advertising Week 2012 taking place in New York City, October 1-5, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Game Publisher 505 Games has announced that Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise, the new action-adventure game from Behaviour Interactive starring everyone’s favourite sociopathic Teddy Bear, will make its debut this October 10th on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® and PlayStation®Network. You are invited to join our favourite anti-hero on Paradise Island as he tracks down his hit list of bears across 11 all-new, expanded locations and making full use of his brand new combat system, special attacks and ultra-kills galore. Read the rest of this entry »