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Ubisoft has announced the Assassin’s Creed III Season Pass offer, granting access to all five forthcoming DLC packs to players owning the original game on PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Microsoft’s Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, and Windows PCs.  Assassin’s Creed III downloadable content will feature “The Tyranny of King Washington”, an all-new single-player campaign available as a continual episodic story through three DLCs that will let players experience an alternate history of the American Revolution. Read the rest of this entry »

Coming this fall, the Hostage Negotiation Map Pack DLC for Max Payne 3 from Rockstar will bring four new multiplayer maps into the fold – all specially designed for online action – along with a range of new Items and weapons plus the Filhos De Ogum avatar faction. The new Filhos De Ogum faction battles it out against the U.F.E. in the all-new Favela Heights map from the Hostage Negotiation DLC Pack for Max Payne 3 Multiplayer. Read the rest of this entry »

Hut hut! After 200 million games played across the chart-topping Big Win Sports franchise, the long awaited American Football game from Hothead is now available for free for iOS and Android gamers. Kick off the American Football season by creating your own dream team and then sit back and watch them crush your online competition. Use Big Impact cards to throw bombs, make game-changing interceptions, power through impenetrable defenses and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has announced a new integration with Webtrends Analytics, widening the scope of measurement tools available to HootSuite Enterprise clients. The HootSuite-Webtrends integration provides the performance data organizations need to properly evaluate the return of investment of their social activities. The auto-generated reports can be customized to show connections between social media messages and website conversion statistics, providing the level of measurement consistent with SEM and display ad markets for accurate comparison across channels. The integrated HootSuite-Webtrends capabilities are now available free to HootSuite Enterprise and Webtrends Analytics On-Demand clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Gamercamp is thrilled to announce that Dean Hall, creator of survival horror simulation DayZ, has been added to its stellar lineup as the festival’s International Keynote. Hall is the latest to join Gamercamp’s speaker lineup, which includes game industry heavyweights from across North America, including Pat Redding from Ubisoft Toronto (Splinter Cell Blacklist), Chris Harvey from DrinkBox Studios (Guacamelee), Vander Caballero from Minority Media (Papo & Yo), Mary De Marle from Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex: Human Revolution), among many others. Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo Canada announced the launch of two new software titles yesterday that will have people broadening their artistic horizons and deepening their love of creative wordplay. Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! and Crosswords Plus are now available for the portable Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL systems, giving consumers a variety of fun ways to learn about how to draw and paint or challenge their puzzle-solving skills anytime, anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal digital publisher Strategy First Inc and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) are teaming up to fight back against Cancer.During the entire month of October fifty percent from every purchase from the publisher’s site will be donated to help find a cure for Breast Cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal-based Behaviour Interactive is celebrating its 20^th anniversary. Through the years, the studio has developed over 140 titles across all major platforms, from games based on leading brands for the whole family, like Tetris and Brave, to original IPs like Assault Heroes™, WET™ and Naughty Bear™ (one of my personal favourites) for a core gaming audience.  With today’s anniversary, the company emphasizes its focus on leading the independent gaming scene in Montreal through the development of games on mobile, online and on social networks, while continuing to offer exciting experiences on game consoles. Read the rest of this entry »

prairieFyre Software, a Microsoft Gold Communications and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Competency Partner developing unified communications and contact center solutions, is proud to announce the general availability of their Contact Center for Microsoft Lync Version 5.10.1. Read the rest of this entry »

Toon Boom Animation Inc. and California-based Bento Box Entertainment (“BBE”) have combined their expertise to develop an exclusive and state-of-the-art digital animation production pipeline uniquely designed for Bento Box’s production on prime-time animated television series, among them Bob’s Burgers, Allen Gregory, and the upcoming new series Brickleberry, Out There, and The Awesomes, as well as multiple Network prime-time animation pilots. The all-digital global workflow methodology set up under the arrangement is on the industry’s cutting edge, and Toon Boom and BBE will be promoting the innovative pipeline and processes to other studios around the world that could potentially benefit from this customized methodology. Read the rest of this entry »