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Harmony Arcade has released its first iPad title, Toppling Towers, to the iTunes store. Published by Big Fish Games, Toppling Towers is a game that will test your castle smashing skills to the maximum. Players join main characters Knight and Horse on their hilarious quest to repair their bruised egos and defeat the Princess who so wounded their pride. Toppling Towers features a unique blend of arcade and puzzle style game play. Find each castle’s weak spot and use the right combination of weapons to assure victory, or just take the brute force approach and smash everything.

Toppling Towers is free to download and try, with the full version being unlockable from within the game itself for $2.99 (at press time, Big Fish had the game on sale for 50% off). Features of the game include a highly amusing story mode, a wide variety of challenging castles to defeat in a several different environments and powerful runes to upgrade your shot damage.

Toppling Towers is rated 9+ for Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence and is compatible with iPads running iOS 4.2 or later. A Hallowe’en version of Toppling Towers has also been announced, and if you are a purveyor of games on Facebook, you can play Castle Smash beta against your friends.

Ontario’s Extreme Ease Software, a developer of enterprise help authoring, PDF publishing, content management and knowledgebase management, has announced the availability of its latest release, HelpConsole 2010 Service Pack 5.  In this release, HelpConsole includes a newly redesigned PDF publishing engine, improved language translation, improved support for mobile devices including iPhone and Android phones, and provides full development support for all modern browsers including IE, Firefox Safari, Chrome and Opera. Read the rest of this entry »

Vistek’s Production Video Solutions Group (PVSG) is adding a second date to its fully-booked day-long (and free) Acquisition to Archive event. Wednesday, October 19th has been added to the original October 18th showcase of the latest technologies and processes to simplify and streamline video file-based production workflow. The Acquisition to Archive events will take place at Vistek’s flagship store at 496 Queen Street East in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile game developer XMG Studio and the National Post tested Canada’s students at the Great Canadian Appathon2 (GCA2)  mobile video game coding marathon, on their design creativity and development prowess. Over the weekend of September 30th, more than 125 competing teams gathered in 21 hubs for a sleep-deprived, energy drink-induced and pizza-fueled weekend of creating the next hit sports game app. Read the rest of this entry »