Village Gamer

Historical wrongdoings, government apologies and one Canadian’s journey into his family’s past are the focus of the new documentary A Sorry State, a TVO commission making its world broadcast premiere Wednesday January 9 at 9 pm. As a Japanese-Canadian with an Aboriginal stepmother and a stepfather with Chinese ancestry, filmmaker Mitch Miyagawa’s family is perhaps one of the most apologized-to families in the country. His family has received three government apologies for past misdeeds. Wondering how he’ll pass on his family’s legacy to his young sons, Mitch is prompted to revisit history and investigate the meaning – and impact – of formal apologies. Read the rest of this entry »

Assassin’s Creed III’s Tyranny of King Washington – a three-part DLC series from Ubisoft that explores an alternate reality in which George Washington goes mad with unlimited power and foregoes Presidency to rule as tyrannical King. In this alternate world, Connor is and remains Ratonhnhaké:ton. Having never become an Assassin, he must endure new trials, acquiring the skills he’ll need to take down a possessed Washington and win freedom for his land once and for all. Read the rest of this entry »

Waterloo-based Avvasi Inc., vendor of QoE driven video management and monetization solutions, has announced the launch of Avvasi Q-SRV^TM Video Service Gateway. This announcement signals the creation of a new market category, in which mobile network operators put their subscriber’s video Quality of Experience at the heart of the traffic management process. As video now represents more than half of mobile network traffic, operators need to manage it as a separate service. Avvasi’s Q-SRV builds on the success of its Q-VUE product, currently used by Tier 1 operators to measure video experience, by allowing them to actively manage and improve subscriber video experience for the first time. Read the rest of this entry »