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Peterborough UK carrier and technology resilient bonded internet connections supplier Evolving Networks has announced a partnership with Vancouver-based Multapplied Networks to add to their established product set of bonded connectivity solutions. Bonded connectivity is designed to improve both network performance and resilience by combining multiple internet connections to form a single line, allowing users to benefit from the network resilience and aggregated throughput capacities of different technologies all through a single IP address. The popularity of bonded access has been, and continues to become, increasingly popular across the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa software developer Analytics Edge has released a new connector for its Microsoft Excel add-in that provides direct access to MailChimp campaign and mailing list data. Reinforcing the company’s mantra that computers should do the work for you, the connector lets you automate the transfer of data between MailChimp’s servers and Excel workbooks on your computer. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal’s Realtech VR has just released a long awaited updated of it latest iOS game: Brotherhood of Violence 2 – Blood Impact, which is not just a video game, but a whole new gaming experience. Game app features exceptional 3D graphics, thanks to a very high end 3D engine. The game, which is now available on iTunes, also benefits from artificial intelligence (AI), so it is always evolving, learning the users moves, and becoming even more challenging. With stunning cinematic effects, advanced lighting, and detail that is unparalleled, users will feel like they are actually in the game. Read the rest of this entry »

Our congratulations to the team at Hinterland Games, who was beyond thrilled to announce earlier today that first-person post-disaster survival sim title The Long Dark reached its $200,000 fundraising goal on Kickstarter – with three days remaining in the campaign. We were actually out for lunch with our Valley Indie Meetup Group and were watching on our phones as the numbers ticked up, closer and closer to the goal. Below is a message from founder and creative director Raphael van Lierop that was sent to The Long Dark’s Kickstarter backers: Read the rest of this entry »

Gamercamp 2013, which is coming up in less than a month, is all set to take over Hotel Ocho in downtown Toronto (yes, the entire hotel) and fill it with gaming goodness from November 1st through 3rd. The organizers have a range of exciting activity planned for everyone from the game enthusiast to the professional developer. Gamercamp is celebrating its 5th anniversary. In the show’s five years, the organizers have brought some of the brightest, most innovative voices in the industry from across North America and Europe to Toronto, with attendance swelling from 100 attendees in the first year to an expected 2,000 this November. Read the rest of this entry »

Activision Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Entertainment, LLC have revealed The Amazing Spider-Man 2™ video game is planned to launch next spring, alongside the Sony Pictures Entertainment feature film of the same name. Developed by Quebec’s Beenox, the same game studio behind 2012’s original hit The Amazing Spider-Man™, this all-new third-person action-adventure video game builds on the story of the previous game with an alternative take on the events of the upcoming movie, while also giving players an enhanced, free-roaming web-slinging experience through a greatly expanded New York City. Read the rest of this entry »

TigerDirect.ca has a feast in store for Canadians. To mark the opening of their first retail store in Markham, TigerDirect.ca will be throwing a 10^th Anniversary Event in Canada from October 18-24, 2013. This will be the perfect opportunity for Canadians to update their gear, or get Black Friday-sized deals for holiday gifts early from TigerDirect.ca. The celebration will be honored in the brick-and-mortar locations, as well as on the retailer’s website. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment hasy released its AdvenChewers App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. In this new, original mobile game, players must conquer robot armies and evade “goo” by soaring across the sky. Developed by Quebec’s Sarbakan, AdvenChewers features six distinctive worlds with 48 levels and 50 missions to complete. The AdvenChewers App is available for $0.99 from the iTunes App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Read the rest of this entry »

The world of The Long Dark is one of harsh beauty. The same elements that may kill you with indifference, haunt you with their majesty. The wind howls, the snow falls, and the aurora hangs above you, a breathtaking reminder of what humanity has just lost. The developers have talked a lot thus far about rugged bearded men, the rough “coffee and cigarettes” men like bush pilot Will Mackenzie, who have the stern stuff needed to survive in this post-digital, post-disaster world – but every bit equal to them are the strong women who face the new frontier, and today Hinterland Games announced that my absolute favourite female voice actor, Jennifer Hale, has officially joined the cast of The Long Dark. In a project funding update – at press time, the Kickstarter campaign stood at $ 161, 514.00 with 5.5 days remaining to reach the studio’s goal of $ 200, 000.00. Read the rest of this entry »

The Nintendo 3DS family is about to get a fun new addition. Launching on October 12 at a suggested retail price of $129.99, the Nintendo 2DS system is designed specifically as an accessible entry point into the exciting world of Nintendo hand-held video games. The Nintendo 2DS system maintains many of the same hardware features as Nintendo 3DS, like touch-screen controls, StreetPass, online multiplayer functionality and the ability to download games. Read the rest of this entry »