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Capcom’s Vancouver Studio has released two new DLC packs for Dead Rising 2 Off The Record today – the Firefighter Skills Pack and the Gamebreaker Pack, both available for download. These new packs include new costumes, skills and power-ups to assist you in fighting the zombie hordes. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc. has announced that Burn the Rope Worlds, the latest addition to the smash hit game Burn the Rope, with over 6 million downloads, is now available for free in the Android Market. Burn the Rope: Worlds follows in the footsteps of the original game with 100 brand-new levels, four different themed worlds including Jungle, Mechanical, Fantasy and Space; and an exciting brand new mini-game called Endless Burn.

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Ubisoft has released The Black Eyed Peas Experience for Kinect for Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. The second release in the multi-million selling “Experience” franchise, the game offers to all Black Eyed Peas fans the chance to dance and sing along the members of their favorite band by following their moves and lyrics on hit songs taken from their multi-platinum selling catalogue. Read the rest of this entry »

Web content optimization company Strangeloop has announced the infusion of $10 million in Series B funding from a private investment group. The funding comes on the heels of the introduction of the Strangeloop Mobile Site Optimizer, the first website acceleration solution designed from the ground up to meet the specific needs of mobile users. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

TransGaming Inc., a leader in the multiplatform deployment of interactive entertainment, today announced that GameTree TV™, the premier on-demand interactive entertainment platform for Smart TV, has been downloaded by 250,000 users in the six months since its commercial launch. TransGaming expects GameTree TV to reach more than 1 million users in its first year. 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 »

Join TVO as it revisits the historic and dramatic final days of the First World War, all through a unique Twitter campaign that focuses on the Ontario media headlines of the time. From November 4-11, TVO will be tweeting 10-15 times daily with the headlines of war-related newspaper stories from November 4-11, 1918.  As part of TVO’s Remembrance programming, the campaign will provide a glimpse of what Ontarians of the era experienced, including breaking news from the European war front, coverage of how the war’s final days affected the lives of people at home, plus exclusive interviews linked to WWI veterans. Read the rest of this entry »