Village Gamer

Over the course of the last several weeks, students from 120 high schools (78 from Ontario, 32 from Quebec, 2 from Alberta, 1 from Nova Scotia, 5 from the United States and 2 from Mexico) took part in the FIRST Robotics Competition – the largest high school robotics competition in Canada. Eighteen of these teams earned spots at the 2012 World Championship event, currently underway at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri. Read the rest of this entry »

Hannah Chapplain, a singer from Alton, Ontario, stepped into the spotlight as a new class of entrepreneur ready to make her mark bringing digital media content to market. Chapplain was among 50 startup entrepreneurs who pitched in the Road to Banff® competition at the CDMN Canada 3.0 2012 digital media forum yesterday, aspiring to be one of three top finalist prizes to the Road to Banff forum later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Game of Thrones, the Cyanide-developed role-playing game for PlayStation® 3, Xbox 360® and PC, based on the best-seller novels by George R.R. Martin and the popular HBO® TV series, revealed more of its epic battles that players will soon be able to take part in. Many opponents are eager to battle them as they explore the continent of Westeros to complete their Quest. Read the rest of this entry »

Today from its annual member summit in Vancouver, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) launched its Bluetooth Developer Portal. This new resource helps developers and engineers quickly learn the basics of Bluetooth device and application design, allowing them to tap into a huge new market for software applications that integrate with hardware running Bluetooth low energy technology. Read the rest of this entry »

Get ready to brave the icy cold glacial games in Ice Age: Continental Drift — Arctic Games, from Activision Publishing Inc. in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products.  Developed by Behavior Interactive, Ice Age: Continental Drift — Arctic Games is the video game extension of the upcoming fourth installment of the Ice Age franchise, Ice Age: Continental Drift. Read the rest of this entry »

Sandvine,  a Waterloo-based provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today released its Internet traffic trends report, entitled “Global Internet Phenomena Report 1H2012“, based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 200-plus customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Read the rest of this entry »

At the recent Demo Spring 2012 event in California, Vancouver’s CrowdFanatic released a new addition to Facebook, the CrowdFanatic App. This ‘Groups-Connectivity Layer’ is a revolutionary application which directly connects groups and
pages on Facebook with each other. For example, by using the app, The Hunger Games fans can challenge Twilight fans, Apple aficionados can engage hard core Androiders and Romney supporters can try to convert Obama’s voters to win the election. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver Film School is pleased to present this year’s Women in Games Scholarship to Kristina Soltvedt Wiik of Norway. The first of its kind in the world, this scholarship provides full tuition for an aspiring female game designer to VFS’s acclaimed one-year Game Design program. Read the rest of this entry »

Speaking at the Canada 3.0 Digital Media Forum, the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, challenged Canadian industry to take risks, invest, think creatively and act boldly to ensure Canada’s success in the global digital economy. Read the rest of this entry »

Legendary Canadian rock band Rush has made their highly anticipated album “Clockwork Angels” available for pre-order starting today April 24th on the iTunes Store. All pre-orders include an instant download of their new single “Headlong Flight” with the remainder of the album delivered on the June 12th release date. Read the rest of this entry »