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Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds have partnered with the National Film Board of Canada for the Theatrical Documentary Program. Under this arrangement, the Program’s budget has been restored to $1.5 million per year, with each partner contributing $500,000. Read the rest of this entry »

A modern take on the tactical strategy genre makes its public debut during Gamescom 2012 as Montreal game publisher Meridian4 and Danish game developer Full Control announce Frontline Tactics.  A tactical strategy game for the PC, Mac, iPad and iPhone, Frontline Tactics can be played in single-player mode, or two different multiplayer modes across either of the different gaming platforms.  Players can be playing on their iPad or iPhone against others who may be playing on their Windows laptop or iMac. Read the rest of this entry »

Cambridge, UK based Frontier Developments Ltd. has announced that it is opening a new game development studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to KPMG’s 2012 Competitive Alternatives report, Halifax ranks number one for cost competitiveness in video game production out of all global mature markets surveyed, and is in the top 10 out of all global mature and developing markets. Read the rest of this entry »

Innovation leaders from throughout Waterloo Region are joining forces on the Province of Ontario pavilion, promoting the Region as a thriving tech hub and one of Canada’s best places to live, at the SIGGRAPH 2012 exhibition which gets under way today in Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s All Seeing Eye Games are pleased to announce that the studio’s new title Recording Studio will be available this September exclusively on the Xbox LIVE indie games channel of Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 80 Microsoft Points. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s Annex Pro invites you to meet the team in their temporary home at the Hitachi Data Systems booth #622 during the SIGGRAPH 2012 expo.  Here are just some of the exciting solutions that are being featured at SIGGRAPH 2012: Read the rest of this entry »

3D3 Solutions, a Vancouver-based developer of 3D scanning and visualization technologies, announces the release of KScan3D at Siggraph 2012 today. KScan3D is a Kinect-based 3D scanning software solution that provides consumers with the opportunity to capture quality 3D scans of real-world objects at an affordable price. 3D3 Solutions is demonstrating KScan3D for the first time at the Siggraph Exhibition in the Los Angeles Convention Center from August 7th through 9th, in booth 1114. Read the rest of this entry »

Emmy® Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc., a Montreal-based animation technology developer, is proud to announce the release of Toon Boom Harmony 10 at SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles, at Booth #1030. This new version delivers all the benefits that a 64-bit engine brings to your hardware, namely overall enhanced performance, a much faster user interface and interactive playback, as well as the ability to render projects and images in 2K, 4K, 8K and more. In addition, the 64-bit engine amplifies Harmony’s unique capabilities related to pencil line technology with textures, deformation tools, particles and 2D-3D integration. Read the rest of this entry »