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Eidos-Montréal®, a part of Square Enix Europe and the award winning studio behind the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution®, has officially unveiled THIEF™ for PC, PlayStation®4, and other next generation consoles. THIEF is a reinvention of a franchise that helped define an entire genre of games, and is scheduled for a 2014 release. Read the rest of this entry »

An overwhelming response to the annual Women in Games Scholarship offered by Vancouver Film School (VFS) has led to the unprecedented announcement of four recipients. Janel Jolly of Canada, Nicha Jaijadesuk of Thailand, Jaymee Mak of Australia, and Anna Prein of Russia have all been awarded a full-tuition scholarship to the one-year Game Design program. This scholarship, the first of its kind in the world, covers the full tuition for an aspiring female game designer in VFS’s acclaimed Game Design program. Read the rest of this entry »

More than $300,000 in prizes are waiting to be scooped up by emerging companies in BC’s technology space through the annual BCIC-New Ventures Competition, which kicks off this week. Now in its 13th year, the competition has welcomed over 1,400 early?stage tech entrepreneurs since 2001, all with a dream to turn their concepts into reality. Ideas entered in the competition are then judged for their potential to become successful companies. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian indie developer Phantom Compass takes its upcoming pinball puzzle role-playing game Rollers of the Realm on several side-quests in March. Rollers brings together the drama of RPGs with the fun and skill mastery of pinball, combining physics puzzle play with a unique nudge mechanic. Each character is a pinball, and each scene in the story is a new pinball board. Players can hot-swap characters during play to combat enemies on each board and protect their vulnerable flippers. A vertical slice of gameplay will debut in San Francisco this month. Read the rest of this entry »

The Arts Innovation Fund is a partnership between BC Film + Media and the BC Arts Council. The program is intended to encourage arts and culture organizations to collaborate with digital media creators to engage audiences in new and innovative ways.  Funding is in the form of a non-recoupable advance of up to $25,000.  This year’s successful applicants are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

CDMN Canada 3.0 2013, Canada’s only national digital media conference focused on the commercialization of innovation, will feature world-class speakers, a wide-ranging program and showcase of Canadian entrepreneurship when it gets under way May 14 and 15, 2013 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The conference, organized by the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) and featuring host Amber Mac, is expected to draw more than 2,500 attendees from industry, government and academia to advance Canadian innovation. Read the rest of this entry »

Continue your journey with the Manatalopian Knights of Roaming Fortress as they discover the mythical Road of Anak and experience the monstrous power of a fierce and aggressive magic at work. Brisk Mobile and YETi CGI today announced the new Rage Campaign Expansion is now available on iTunes and soon on Google Play. Recently awarded ‘Honorable Mention’ in the GDC Play 2013 ‘Best in Play’ Showcase, the iPhone and Android Phone versions of Roaming Fortress are coming at the end of March. Read the rest of this entry »

comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the 2013 Canada Digital Future in Focus report. This annual report examines how the prevailing trends in web usage, online video, digital advertising, mobile, social media and e-commerce are defining the current Canadian marketplace and what these trends mean for the year ahead. Read the rest of this entry »

Award winning New Brunswick photographer and educator Noel Chenier has launched a series of completely unique Photography Assignment Generator Apps for iPhone/iPod and iPad. Whether you are taking on a 365 day photo challenge or just looking for inspiration or ideas to expand your photography, these apps will be just perfect for you. While most apps on the app store let you do things to the photographs you taken, like add text, borders, filters, or special effects, these apps are about ideas for taking photographs.There are two main versions of Photography Assignment Generator: one for SLR/Point and Shoot Photographers, and one for iPhoneographers. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s a substantial shot in the arm and vote of confidence for these young startups. BDC Venture Capital has provided four companies that recently completed the program of Vancouver-based startup accelerator GrowLab with $150,000 each in seed funding, for a total commitment of $600,000. ePACT, KarmaHire, Procurify and Spacelist were all judged to be “venture-ready” by a joint BDC Venture Capital and GrowLab selection committee. This means they each developed a solid product that showed significant early traction and, most importantly, they are each led by a team of entrepreneurs who proved they were determined, capable and eager to take on the world. The companies were free to turn down the investment, but all four took up BDC Venture Capital’s offer. Read the rest of this entry »