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Canadians can pull the trigger to obtain one of 2011’s hottest gaming titles Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at midnight on Monday, November 7 at Future Shop stores across Canada. Stores in Quebec and Sudbury, ON will offer the game on Tuesday, November 8 at 8:00 a.m. local time. The first 75 customers purchasing the game at each store location will receive a free Modern Warfare Collection SteelBook case, exclusive to Future Shop. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros has released this photo in celebration of the official inauguration of its brand new WB Games Montreal Studio.  In the photo are: Reid Schneider, Vice President and Executive Producer; Martin Carrier, Vice President and Studio Head; Martin Tremblay, President of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment; Alain Paquet, Minister for Finance; Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of Montreal; and Jacques Daoust, President and CEO, Investissement Quebec.

On October 24th, music publisher ole launched its Stop Corporate Music Piracy campaign with a full-page ad in the Ottawa Hill Times. At the same time a companion website ProtectCreativity.ca was unveiled and the message was delivered via posters to all 308 Canadian Members of Parliament. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based SelectCore Ltd., a prepaid telecom and financial services provider and transaction processor for the under-banked consumer market, has announced that it has executed a binding Letter of Intent to acquire the assets of an arms-length Canadian payment processor. The assets to be acquired will consist of all merchant contracts, all processing agreements, all hardware and software, all accounts receivables, goodwill and all other assets used in the business of the vendor. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2011 Ontario Museum Association (OMA) Annual Conference takes place in Kitchener-Waterloo November 2-4. On Thursday, November 3rd the OMA will recognize excellence in museum work in Ontario as it presents the 2011 Awards of Excellence at the Waterloo Region Museum. Read the rest of this entry »

Sun News has announced that Cogeco Cable will begin offering Sun News as part of its popular Ontario Digital Select package starting on November 1, 2011. For the past six months, Cogeco customers have been able to watch Sun News via the old Sun TV signal that will no longer be in operation effective midnight on October 31, 2011. Sun News Network will be available on channels 195 (SD) and 705 (HD) for all Cogeco Cable customers in Ontario. Read the rest of this entry »

Wild Games Studio Inc. has announced the development of an open-ended RPG/Adventure game. Dungeon Gate will be a game for PC and Mac. Wild Games will be showing the game’s first trailer and Alpha demo at the Montreal International Game Summit 2011 on November 1st and 2nd. Read the rest of this entry »

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, currently in development at Slant Six Games for Capcom, will deliver a true third-person team-based shooter experience set within the dark and sinister Resident Evil universe. Not only does this setting provide a rich backdrop to the action but it also delivers a unique and brutal triple-threat battle. Zombies and Bio-Organic Weapons (B.O.W.s) add to the mix as players compete against their team’s opposing squad and tackle this third, unpredictable element that could only exist in the twisted Resident Evil universe. The result is a brand new style of gameplay that breaks the conventions of traditional third person shooters. Read the rest of this entry »

Cineplex Entertainment has announced it will donate $400,000 to the Starlight Children’s Foundation after hosting its first-ever National Community Day. On October 22nd, guests began lining up early at Cineplex theatres across Canada for a fun-filled morning of free movies, discounted snacks and other events with 100% of the proceeds going to Starlight. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media and Dx3 Canada have announced a partnership to launch the “Intertainment Media Incubation Zone” (IMIZ) at the Dx3 Canada event on January 25^th & 26^th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The “IMIZ” will showcase some of Canada’s formalized Incubation Programs, with Ryerson’s DMZ, OCADU, the Impact Entrepreneurship Group and MEIC already confirmed as participants. The Zone will showcase the respective incubators and their members, culminating in a panel “pitch-off” for the chance to win a $20,000 prize of cash and professional services plus the opportunity to work with Intertainment Media for one year. Read the rest of this entry »