Village Gamer

Saturday night Scott and I wandered down to the Vancouver port area to check out the Launch event for Gears of War 3 – which will also have a special Midnight Release event at the Best Buy on Cambie Street. The launch event actually began a number of weeks ago, when gamers were asked to partake in some training demos. In those demos were codes to be deciphered, which resulted in a phone number to be texted and a name to be followed and interacted with on Twitter, which led to more deciphering, which somehow ended up with participants receiving a very unappetizing packet of “Locust Meat” from Save On Meats on East Hastings and a VIP ticket with a QR code. The QR Code led to a web site which revealed the location of The Barge, where the Launch Camp was located. Vancouver was chosen as a Launch Event location due to the strong gamer market in the Lower Mainland. Read the rest of this entry »

EA Sports™ NHL® 12 for the PlayStation®3 and Xbox 360® is now available in retail stores throughout North America. Developed by EA Canada, NHL 12 is rated E10+ by the ESRB. EA Sports NHL 12 is the second title to participate in the EA Sports™ Season Ticket program. Season Ticket subscribers were provided full digital access to EA Sports NHL 12 three days before retail launch.

“As a winner of twenty-two sports game of the year awards, the NHL franchise has a history of producing high quality and innovative entertainment experiences and this year we have taken it to new heights. With over 300 gameplay improvements and the ability to play with some of the NHL’s greatest legends, such as Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, NHL 12 is our most exciting offering yet,” says Dean Richards, General Manager Team & Action Sports, EA Sports.
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An international panel of technology experts has recognized a B.C First Nations multimedia team for their development of WaterKeeper, an interactive 3 dimensional (3D) training tool designed to support operators of small community water systems to provide clean and safe drinking water for First Nations communities. The award was given as part of the International Serious Play awards, a program “distinguishing superior examples of corporate, military, healthcare and school/at home” learning tools at the 2011 Serious Games Conference held on August 23 – 25, 2011 in Redmond. Read the rest of this entry »

As a proud sponsor of the Volunteer Program during the Toronto International Film Festival, Cineplex Entertainment hired Endeavour to create a memorable cinema trailer that would celebrate the over 2,000 volunteers that dedicate their time to making TIFF run seamlessly.

The cinema trailer, which runs before every film playing during TIFF, is a creative and very humorous exploration of what TIFF would like if there were no volunteers to maintain order. Shot on location at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Endeavour cast hundreds of real TIFF volunteers to play film festival goers in a series of vignettes to demonstrate the potential chaos of a festival without volunteers.

Legendary Canadian directors Atom Egoyan and Deepa Mehta make comedic cameos in the trailer as they get caught up in the mayhem of not having volunteers to look after them. The trailer runs September 8^th-18^th and was directed by Derek Horn for FRANK Films and produced by Barry Avrich.

Young women in the Moncton area will have the opportunity to learn about careers and educational possibilities in the trades and technology sector thanks to support from the Government of Canada. Mr. Robert Goguen, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Member of Parliament for Moncton–Riverview–Dieppe, made the announcement today on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development. Read the rest of this entry »

The official selections for the 5^th annual Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) were announced today at a press conference held on the southbound platform of the Dundas subway station and attended by TTC Chair Karen Stintz.

Sixty-three silent, one-minute films made the cut from over 370 works submitted from Canada and around the world. TUFF runs September 9 – 18, 2011 on the Onestop network of digital platform screens located across the Toronto subway system. Unique in North America, TUFF screens a variety of genres at 10 minute intervals throughout the day. Also announced at the press conference were two new initiatives: Urban Screens: Creating for an Urban Public panel discussion, and The Screening Room – both located at The Drake Hotel. Read the rest of this entry »

Business Guru, a company whose mantra is “great events for great entrepreneurs” has chosen to kick off a cross-Canada tour in Hamilton Ontario with a free networking, breakfast and social media seminar: From Conversation to Conversion: Using Social Media to Drive Sales. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s Stark Mobile Media is pleased to release GuySpy 2.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, with video, integrated blog, Cruise, and Spanish language support.

In addition to video, this latest release of GuySpy features Buzz, which integrates GuySpy’s popular gay blog. Another new feature, Cruise, takes users through the latest uploaded photos in GuySpy. But the key differentiator, according to Jeff Prete, General Manager of Stark Mobile Media, is video. “By adding video to our app, we believe that we now have the most robust, full-featured gay dating app on the market. In-chat video messaging is something that our customers have been asking for, and we are pleased to be able to deliver it,” said Prete. Read the rest of this entry »

First there were radio stars, then TV stars, now…. there are app stars! Australia’s Treasure Bound Books, creator of the interactive book app, “Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island,” is launching a treasure hunt of its own for three children aged 4-12 to feature as cartoons in the Treasure Kai app. The “Treasure Kai” book app was recently named a “Best of the Best, Top 25 Essential Children’s Book App” by Digital Storytime.

As part of the “Be an App Star” contest, award-winning illustrator of Treasure Kai, Vic Guiza, will draw the winners onto Main Street next to Kai’s treasure shop. To “audition” for the cameo roles, children from around the world are encouraged to illustrate their most creative treasure maps and place Kai somewhere on the map. Parents can submit their child’s creations to Treasure Bound Books via email or the web site. Submissions will be accepted throughout the month of September. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise resource planning  provider Dynamic Manufacturing Solutions (DMS), one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, has partnered with Backup Manager Corporation (BMC) to provide customers with a safe, cost-efficient way of storing and recovering critical data. The partnership between the two Edmonton companies is effective immediately.

BMC delivers powerful cloud backup capabilities, sometimes referred to as on-line data backup, that allow companies to modernize their data storage processes for greater efficiency, control, and availability. Users can easily perform cloud data backups and restoration utilizing the simple and flexible processes in BMC’s business-class cloud backup and recovery solution. Read the rest of this entry »