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As a warm-up to his US and Canadian winter tour (he’s in Ontario this week), comedian Jeff Dunham has created his first-ever, free mobile and online game featuring fan favorite, Achmed. Achmed’s Bombsweeper challenges players to compete against the clock to solve five levels of the game, before Achmed creates the RoboAchmed terror weapon destroying the world. The game is full of comedic twists from Jeff Dunham and his cast of characters, as Achmed taunts the player with insults at every step of the game.   Read the rest of this entry »

Merging Media 2013 has announced the 12 finalists who will be pitching at MM2013 on November 7 to vie for the $10,000 Pitch 360 Award. This year there are five Canadian finalists alongside seven European projects with Canadian co-production potential. Read the rest of this entry »

In this preview of Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, learn everything there is to know about the largest and most immersive Assassin’s game ever created.  See how Edward Kenway takes on the Golden Age of Pirates, and meet the outlaw characters that defined this unforgettable era.   Experience the breadth of this open-world, including enhanced naval gameplay, expansive new environments, exotic animals and the vibrant underwater world.  And learn more about new combat features and weapons, including dual-sword attacks, multi-gun abilities and the free-aim system. Read the rest of this entry »

“Two worlds, one reality” – so goes the tagline for ‘IRL’, a new feature film by director Erik Leijonborg which features Funcom‘s modern-day massively multiplayer game The Secret World as a central part of the story. Valter Skarsgård (son of Hollywood heavyweight Stellan Skarsgård known from films such as ‘Good Will Hunting’, ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Thor’) plays Elias, the film’s main character. Bullied at school, Elias escapes to the virtual universe of Funcom Montreal’s The Secret World, where he meets a girl – Scarlet – and they eventually decide to meet up in real life. Read the rest of this entry »

The Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC) has just launched its 2013 Essential Facts Booklet (PDF), which contains 19 pages of research points and information about the Canadian video game industry. Also released today is an in-depth report (PDF) from Nordicity, with 60 pages of industry research of import to the Canadian creative industries sector. In these reports you’ll see that Canada’s video game industry continues to be at the vanguard of Canada’s digital economy, employing 16,500 men and women in 329 creative and innovative companies that collectively contribute $2.3 billion to Canada’s economy. Watch the video shown below for a quick view of some of the facts contained in this year’s report. Read the rest of this entry »