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For Funcom’s upcoming modern-day MMO The Secret World, this has been the ‘Week of the Dragon’ – an exciting event dedicated to the Dragon secret society — where gamers have been served new screenshots, artworks, information, and a video related to the most secret of the three secret societies. Funcom is planning similar weeks for the Illuminati and the Templars. Read the rest of this entry »

Wapos Bay: Long Goodbyes, based on the Gemini award-winning TV series, will have its world premiere at the prestigious imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto at its Closing Night Gala presented by Global Toronto. Produced by Wapos Bay Productions Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, the movie was selected for the closing night of the Festival’s 12th edition and will screen on Sunday, October 23rd at 7 p.m. ET. The screening will take place at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, which is located at 350 King Street West. Read the rest of this entry »

TomTom has announced that its newest update to the TomTom App for iPhone, version 1.9, offers TomTom HD Traffic compatibility for Canadian drivers. TomTom HD Traffic enables drivers to get to their destination faster and is the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic solution available. The new app is compatible with Apple’s brand new iOS5. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto publisher G4BOX Inc. has released a Halloween update for its free-to-play military shooter Cross Fire. The free update features Halloween-themed weapons and equipment, a Halloween map, a new Search and Destroy map, a new display resolution, and more!   For current players, the Halloween update will download automatically upon launching Cross Fire. Read the rest of this entry »

Dx3 Canada has announced a partnership with Moneris Solutions which will see the introduction of the Moneris Small Business Zone at Dx3 Canada, January 25-26, 2012 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The Zone will feature a selection of solution providers for SME’s as well as a series of free to attend seminars delivered by Moneris, Rogers Communications, Yelp and bizlaunch.ca, with topics ranging from “building a successful website for small business” to “making ‘cents’ of social media”. Read the rest of this entry »

Crossover events are something TV viewers are used to seeing during ratings sweeps, but now  Namco Bandai Games America Inc. and Ubisoft Entertainment have announced that elite assassin Ezio Auditore from the Assassin’s Creed™ series will be a playable guest character in SoulCalibur^® V for the PlayStation^®3 and Xbox 360^®.  This monumental collaboration will let players control Ezio and his wide range of assassination tools including a Roman Longsword, Stiletto, Crossbow, Hidden Gun and his trademark Hidden Blade.  SoulCalibur V delivers exhilarating 3D fighting mechanics, breathtaking visuals, and new characters, as well as expanding the online and character creation modes.  SoulCalibur V is scheduled to launch on January 31, 2012 in North America. Read the rest of this entry »

Signature Entertainment announced today that it has completed the majority of its operational retooling of its parent company and its international subsidiaries.  The retooling is as detailed below:

•   Signature Beijing, located at the IBM Tower at Pacific Century Place, has been sold with operational turnover having taken place on October 14th.  With this sale, Signature has exited the Chinese language sports marketplace after eight years.  Chinese language content for fashion television will now be produced in Europe at Signature Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »

Bartsoft Inc. has launched 20 new greeting cards and frames for both versions of eCard Express for iPhone and eCard Express HD for iPad. This new update includes both nice classical and humorous cartoon style cards and frames for existing application categories like Thanksgiving, Love & Friendship, Thank You For Your Business, New Home, Encouragement Cards For Kids, Birthday. All of these new cards are free of charge for current eCard Express users. And now the total selection of available cards for each application reached number 240. Read the rest of this entry »

ESAC has released its 2011 edition of the Essential Facts report on the Canadian Entertainment Software industry, which is available now as a downloadable PDF. This booklet provides a great overview of some of the key stats and information about the Canadian video game industry. What’s the average age of a Canadian gamer? How many studios are there in Canada? How big is Canada’s video game industry? How do we stack up in the world? These questions, among others, are answered in the new report, and also includes other important bits of information such as: Read the rest of this entry »

Writer, producer and director Thomas Newman put himself through hell for almost 4 years in making his ultra low budget epic zombie film ‘Bong Of The Dead‘, and he has kept surprising everyone as his little film that could, did just that. Newman’s film has garnered glowing reviews from around the world in magazines, on television, film festivals, fan sites and more. This while Newman paid the bills by stocking shelves, building decks, scrubbing toilets and any other job he could muster. Read the rest of this entry »