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Simon Ashby, VP products and co-founder of Audiokinetic, has been awarded “Audio Professional of the Year” at the first Canadian game development talent awards which was held as the closing event of the Montreal International Game Summit. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (CFHU) today announced that film producer Jake Eberts, OC, will be the recipient of the Key of Knowledge Award, to be presented on November 28 at the Montreal Science Centre’s IMAX^®Theatre. Mr. Eberts will be introduced by multiple award-winning Québec director Denys Arcand. Read the rest of this entry »

Employee global rewards and Social Recognition company Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards) has announced that its CEO and founder, Razor Suleman, has been named the Ontario Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®. Read the rest of this entry »

Applications for the third annual Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award are now being accepted online. Canadian photojournalists who have been in the business less than five years – from students to freelancers to photographers working at regional publications – are encouraged to submit their portfolios for consideration. The deadline for submissions is January 8, 2012.  Read the rest of this entry »

Over the weekend of September 30th, more than 400 college and university students competed in the Great Canadian Appathon2, creating  a mobile game in under 48 hours. At the KPMG- sponsored Grand Finale on November 2nd, the top three teams showed off their games before a panel of judges. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian game devs received their well-deserved turn in the spotlight earlier this week, as the industry’s best were celebrated at the first annual Canadian Game Development Talent Awards in Montreal.

Supported by Alliance Numerique and the Canadian Interactive Alliance, the awards capped off the 8th annual Montreal International Game Summit.

Eidos Montreal received the most nominations — six for Deus Ex: Human Revolution — but were shut out of the awards. It was Capybara Games’ Kris Piotrowski and Craig d. Adams of Superbrothers, two of the minds behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, who swept their noms, taking home the honours for Designer of the Year and Visual Artist of the Year, respectively.

The night kicked off with Richard Flanagan snagging the Emerging Talent trophy for his first-person puzzler Fract. Other winners’ work spanned the triple-A sector, with Casey Hudson winning Producer of the Year for BioWare’s Mass Effect 2, to the indies with Aaron Bouthillier picking up Animator of the Year for Klei Entertainment’s Shank.

Other winners included Frédérick Blais for Programmer of the Year, (Michael Jackson The Experience and Wwise’s Simon Ashby for Audio Professional of the Year.

The evening capped with Behaviour Interactive’s Remi Racine and Denis Dyack of Silicon Knights being the first inductees into the Canadian Gaming Hall of Fame.

For more information on the awards, head over to http://www.talentawards.ca/site/en

nextMEDIA has released the nominee list for the 2011 Digi Awards, which will be presented at a gala event on December 6th at the Carlu in Toronto. Hosted by Jeremy Hotz, the awards show, which runs in conjunction with nextMEDIA 2011, will highlight the always impressive work coming from Canada’s creative studios. The full list is laid out below, but you can also head over to the Digi Awards Nominee Showcase to have a look at the nominated works. Tickets are still available for both nextMEDIA 2011 and the Digi Awards. Good luck to all of the nominees! Read the rest of this entry »

The first edition of MTL DGTL, held in Montreal from October 31 to November 2 has come and gone. The new festival, which was  organized by Alliance numérique  and sponsored by the Canada Media Fund, drew in nearly 2,100 digital industry professionals from Quebec as well as from other parts of Canada and from around the world. Quebec’s dynamic digital community seized the opportunity to discuss digital content and showcase their work while promoting their services and networking at this three-day festival which included four separate events on mobile technology, the Web, video games, and the development and research of partnerships for projects in media technologies. Read the rest of this entry »

Toon Boom Animation Inc. has announced that Garfield’s Comic Boom has been granted the prestigious Honours Award by the National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA), in the software category. This NAPPA Award is a remarkable addition to Garfield’s Comic Boom impressive award-winning track record since its launch in August 2011. It has already received the 2011 Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval and the 2011 Preferred Choice Award granted by Creative Child Magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

Totem, part of Transcontinental Media’s Content Solutions Group, has been recognized for creative web excellence by the W³ Awards for a second consecutive year, capturing silver awards in three categories. The W³ Awards – sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts – honours creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, marketing programs, and video work created for the web. Read the rest of this entry »