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This year’s Fan Expo Canada™ brings a special preview of the much-anticipated Halo 4, giving fans the exclusive chance to play the next installment of the Halo franchise before its release to the public on November 6, 2012. Expected to be the biggest video game release in history, the preview will surely be a summer highlight for gaming fans at Fan Expo Canada™. Read the rest of this entry »

Richmond Hill preschoolers and their families are invited to share the magic of reading with TVOKids host Gisèle, star of TVO’s early-learning program block Gisèle’s Big Backyard. The Read with Gisèle Tour will visit the Richmond Hill Central Public Library on Saturday August 25 at 2 pm. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Innovation Exchange is proud to announce that Sandy Bird, CTO for the IBM Security Systems Division, will be giving a keynote address at this year’s event. Bird’s keynote is the first announcement of the 2012 CIX program, and is sure to precede many more exciting developments leading up to the November 27th event. Read the rest of this entry »

Organizers have officially opened submissions for the 2013 Independent Games Festival, to be held at GDC 2013 in San Francisco next March. The longest-running and highest-profile independent video game festival, summit and showcase is now accepting entries to the 15th annual Festival, with deadlines in the Main and Student Showcase categories by October 17th and October 31st respectively, and finalists to be announced on January 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s that time of year again! You’ve put it off year after year, but this time, you know you’re sitting on the next big thing – this is your calling. Enter the Digi Awards today, and get the industry recognition your company deserves. On December 4, 2012, Canada’s digital scene will descend on The Carlu in Toronto for a night devoted to celebrating the best in the business. Read the rest of this entry »

With the 2012 Expo just around the corner, Fan Expo Canada^™ announces a Top 12 List (because 10 is simply not enough) of must-see attractions and activities for this year’s convention.  Combining the best of gaming, horror, comics, science fiction and anime, Fan Expo Canada is the largest event of its kind in Canada, and one of the largest in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Export Development Canada (EDC) has joined the Startup Canada National Tour, bringing a global trade perspective to the coast-to-coast effort to support and expand Canada’s entrepreneur sector. EDC personnel will participate in a number of tour events to meet with export-minded entrepreneurs. Read the rest of this entry »

The XBLIG/XNA community is rising yet again after last year’s blazing hot Summer Uprising with the Indie Games Uprising III. Running from September 10th – 20th, nine Xbox Live Indie Games will be released, one on each day of the work week (Monday – Friday). This year’s line-up consists of a wide variety of developers and an even greater variety of unique and innovative games, including Pixel from Toronto’s Ratchet Game Studios. Read the rest of this entry »

TeamUp, a newly formed Montreal company built on the guiding principle that 3D should be accessible to everyone, everywhere—today announced its Multi-Optics™ renderer and real-time 3D collaboration. The TeamUp platform is completely Cloud-powered, so customers have access to the fastest machines available and do not have to download, install, license or setup anything before working with 3D content. Read the rest of this entry »

John Helliker, director of Sheridan’s Screen Industries Research and Training Centre, (SIRT) will join Avatar producer Jon Landau and a panel of international award-winning cinema leaders for a discussion on the future of high frame rate (HFR) cinema at the SIGGRAPH 2012 conference in Los Angeles on August 8^th, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »