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Vancouver studio Renown EntertainmentRenown Entertainment has announced that Kindle Fire/HD/HDX owners now have a version of Ball-Hop Bowling to call their own, with platform exclusive features including razor-sharp HD graphics, GameCircle achievements, GameCircle leaderboards and Whispersync support to backup game data to Amazon’s cloud servers protecting player progress. Best of all, users can enjoy unlimited skee ball style game play without needing to pay for games, wait for timers, or refill gas-tanks. Read the rest of this entry »

SkyWave Mobile Communications, an Ottawa-based provider of satellite based communications for the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market, has announced the availability of the SkyWave Garmin FMI (Fleet Management Interface) Solution.  Designed to provide a trustworthy connection between driver and dispatch, the solution enables integrated vehicle tracking, navigation, driver communication and dispatch capabilities regardless of cellular service availability. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft^®  has announced that the first DLC for Assassin’s Creed^® IV Black Flag™ multiplayer, Blackbeard’s Wrath, is available from Wednesday for download on PlayStation Network for the PlayStation^® 4, PlayStation^® 3,  and from Tuesday on Xbox LIVE for Xbox One, Xbox^® 360 and PC. Three new characters join the hunt, Blackbeard, the Jaguar and The Orchid, each character bringing their unique skill set to battle for the title of best assassin. Read the rest of this entry »

Square Enix® and Eidos-Montréal™, the award winning studio behind the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution®, has announced that an official THIEF™ companion app is heading to Android and iOS devices. The companion app will enable fans to gain additional insight into the THIEF universe and offer a second-screen experience to fully engage with the game upon release. Read the rest of this entry »

Bell Media has announced that applications are now being accepted for the inaugural Bell Media Producer Accelerator Lab. Announced earlier this year, the two-part program is designed to assist the career advancement of mid-level Canadian producers. Submissions will be accepted until Friday, January 10 2014 at 5 p.m. ET, with the program scheduled to begin in March 2014. The Bell Media Producer Accelerator Lab is part of Bell Media’s TV Skills Development Initiative, which invests $1.8 million annually in a suite of national training programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Frima Studio is bringing the undead feast over to PC players today with Zombie Tycoon 2: Brainhov’s Revenge for $9.99 after a successful Steam Greenlight campaign. In the eight-chapter campaign, players will lead a horde of zombie troops as the evil mastermind, Orville Tycoon, as he seeks to eradicate the remaining survivors of Finkleville and challenge his former mentor, Professor Brainhov, to see whose zombie race is superior. Zombie Tycoon 2 is a lighthearted RTS that brings zombies together in battle with only one goal in mind: a delicious open buffet of brains! Read the rest of this entry »

Parents no longer have to don awful-smelling, red suits or over-indulge in cookies and milk on Christmas Eve to have their kids believe in the magic of Santa, thanks to a cool new app from creative agency Zulu Alpha Kilo and their children’s charitable partner. Parents can share their kids’ awe of the season when they prove Santa’s existence and show them incredibly believable video footage of Kris Kringle making personal visits to their actual living rooms, using a free app called Kringl. The easy-to-use app merges pre-formatted video scenes of Santa drinking milk, checking his list, searching for your child’s gifts or realizing he is being recorded with video footage of your living room, and together recreates the magical story of Santa. Read the rest of this entry »

North Vancouver City Library, in partnership with Maryland’s RBdigital from Recorded Books, is pleased to announce the launch of IndieFlix for Libraries, a premier online streaming service provider of award-winning independent films, shorts and documentaries from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Klipfolio Inc, an Ottawa-based business dashboard vendor, has released a new category of examples to provide social media marketers with guidance as to which KPIs, metrics, and dashboards can demonstrate social media ROI. Based on extensive research and customer feedback, this new example category speaks to the close relationship between social media and website marketing. Read the rest of this entry »

SoMedia Networks, a Vancouver-based developer of globally scalable cloud-based video production and marketing solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of the SoMedia Enterprise Video Suite, the only integrated suite of corporate video services that enables large and medium sized businesses to produce, market, analyze, and optimize video content at unlimited scale. Read the rest of this entry »