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Michel Roy, Telefilm Canada‘s Chair of the Board, is proud to announce the names of the five business leaders who will drive the pan-Canadian honorary committee for its new Talent Fund. The role of honorary committee members will be to raise the visibility of the private donation fund among potential donors, as well as to find inventive ways to inspire corporations to invest in Canada’s audiovisual industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s The Comedy Network has filled in the blanks with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) for the rights to the English-language revival of the classic game show Match Game. Set to shoot in Montreal this summer, 60 episodes of the half-hour series have been commissioned, to be produced in association with Montreal’s Zone3 and to premiere exclusively on Comedy this fall.  Read the rest of this entry »

Route1, a Toronto-based security and identity management company whose customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, and the Canadian Government, today announced the launch of its eStore. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom is thrilled to announce that the Early Access pre-launch period for The Secret World – the modern-day MMO of myths, legends and conspiracies – begins today. In the next few days leading up to launch on July 3^rd everyone who has pre-ordered the game will get to explore a groundbreaking online world that MMORPG.com predicted “… is going to take the world by storm and set new standards for excellence in gameplay….” and which Videogamer.com heralded as “one of the most distinctive MMO’s of the last 10 years.” Read the rest of this entry »

Point Grey, one of the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturers of industrial digital cameras for machine vision, bioscience, traffic, and GIS applications, has released an innovative new model to its popular line of Flea3 USB 3.0 cameras. This new model leverages the bandwidth capabilities of USB 3.0 by delivering 4096 x 2160 color images at 21 FPS (185 MByte/s) in an ice-cube sized, low-cost package. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority, the organization that manages the .CA Internet domain, is embarking on a new initiative to help create a more robust and economical domestic Internet for all Canadians by facilitating the development of more Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) across the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. announced earlier today that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement dated June 27, 2012 pursuant to which Rainmaker Studios Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xing Xing Digital Corporation, has agreed to acquire certain assets comprising substantially all of Rainmaker’s animation studio assets. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has closed its investigation into Rogers Communications’ Internet traffic management practices. The CRTC is satisfied that Rogers has addressed its concerns regarding the company’s practice of slowing down certain types of Internet traffic. Read the rest of this entry »

The Local Justice Pack, the first downloadable content pack for Max Payne 3, will be available on July 3rd for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with the PC version launching on July 17th. This pack includes three new maps for Max Payne 3 Multiplayer featuring areas from the game’s intense final chapters, plus a new weapon, a new item, a new multiplayer faction and associated new Achievements, Trophies or Social Club accomplishments.
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Via the Trade Commissioners’ Office: Game Nation is headed to Casual Connect 2012 in Seattle, ground zero for the casual gaming industry.  The conference, which will take place at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall this July 24th to 26th, attracts over 2,500 industry professionals with a cutting edge lecture series and highly popular nightly networking events. Read the rest of this entry »