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After a successful and exciting first year, Mega Bloks will soon launch their second edition of the Halo Toymation Fest, a community-driven competition in which Halo fans can create and submit their own Mega Bloks Halo toymations (stop motion animations featuring toys) for a chance to win incredible prizes. Read the rest of this entry »

From bestselling authors to the hottest Fall releases, Indigo and Chapters stores nationally host free and exclusive events through the month of September. Check the list below to see if one of your favourite authors is coming to an Indigo or Chapters store in your neighbourhood. Read the rest of this entry »

As summer comes to a close, there’s lots of things to do before the kids head back to school, and having a conversation with them about social media and cyberbullying should be on parents’ to-do lists. According to a recent survey among Canadian parents of children aged 10-17 years old, when asked which online accounts their child has, the following results were found: Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based cloud accounting specialist FreshBooks has launched a new mobile app designed to fit the lifestyle of today’s small businesses owners, giving them the freedom to run their business anytime, anywhere. Following their recent re-positioning as cloud accounting, the free mobile app further demonstrates the FreshBooks commitment to being in the corner of service-based businesses. Read the rest of this entry »

Fans looking to go hands-on with Infinite Game Publishing (IGP) games or get in front of developers behind the upcoming MechWarrior Online from Piranha Games, MechWarrior Tactics and Sins of a Dark Age have several ways to do so as IGP announces details on its PAX Prime participation this year. Hands-on demos, panels and exclusive Q&A session details for the games are below. Read the rest of this entry »

Gamercamp returns to Toronto for its fourth edition this November 3rd and 4th at the beautiful Isabel Bader Theatre, with some of the top names working in the games industry.  Festival director Jaime Woo has announced that Ken Yeung, lead programmer of the award-winning Super T.I.M.E. Force, and Pat Redding, lead game designer of the highly-anticipated Splinter Cell: Black List, as well as artists from NYU’s acclaimed No Quarter exhibition are the latest talent additions to the 2012 roster, joining already-announced Deus Ex: Human Revolution lead writer Mary DeMarle, Papo & Yo creative director Vander Caballero, and Dyad creator Shawn McGrath. Read the rest of this entry »

A new wave of productivity-focused Social Apps, including SocialBro, GoPollGo, NeedTagger, and Videolicious have been added to HootSuite’s ever-expanding App Directory. As makers of one of the market-leading social media management systems, HootSuite is known for helping users engage with audiences and analyze campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard. Read the rest of this entry »

The BCIC-New Ventures Competition is partnering with BCIC, Wavefront, VEF Momentum and Startup Drinks to deliver a tech focused startup event called Aha! Defining Moment of 20 Tech Entrepreneurs, taking place September 19th at the Vancouver Convention Centre. If you have a company to feature at this event, this is a call for pitch submissions! Get all the details below:  Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been following Investintech on Facebook, or read Village Gamer regularly, then you know that at one point the developer featured an Able2Doc giveaway. Well, if you missed out on your free copy, here’s your second chance. Investintech is having a back-to-school one-week-only special, where you can get Able2Doc  v.6.0  for free (valued at $49.95) on Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »

Wild Games Studio would like to inform you that the studio has canceled exclusive retail and online sales around the world for Dungeon Gate publishing and distribution agreement it had with Mamba Games due to a failure on Mamba Games’ part to to respect the agreement. Read the rest of this entry »