Village Gamer

After compiling more than 3,400 votes, TVO is proud to announce that the winner of its first-ever Doc Studio Contest is Coty Forth’s Emmaline (Lighthouse), which is the story about Emmaline Madigan, the last lighthouse keeper of Point Au Baril in Ontario. At 17, Emmaline married the lighthouse keeper, and moved into the lighthouse, where they would raise their six kids. After her husband’s death, she took over his duties and became the new keeper. Evicted in 1993, as new technology made her job obsolete, her desire to maintain her life in the lighthouse remained and so did her fighting spirit. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto is one of 390 communities in 35 countries hosting the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, which features a collection of the most inspiring action, environmental, and adventure films from the festival. The 2011/2012 World Tour brings audiences up-close and personal with the adrenaline-packed action sports, exotic landscapes and remote cultures of the mountain world. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a recent survey commissioned by DeVry Institute of Technology, seven in 10 Calgarians perceive a gender gap in the science, technology and engineering employment sectors. The same gap is also perceived in the post-secondary programs providing training for these careers. Read the rest of this entry »

Congratulations to the three word-worthy winners of Merging Media’s Access 360 Village Gamer Contest! We asked participants to define “Gamify” in 10 words or less, and here are the top three:

1. Triggering positive responses by means of rewards and positive feedback – Jeremy Butler
2. Adding exciting elements that motivate participation and interaction – Monica Hamburg
3. Creating an interactive, merging media universe where ‘more is more’ – Dave Driedger

Each of the winners will receive a pass to the Merging Media Access 360 Workshops on March 23rd. Tickets for this seminar are still available – our readers are invited to use the promo code PROMO10 for a 10% discount on ticket prices.

Innovative motion technology developer D-BOX Technologies Inc. has announced another agreement with Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment Company to equip three new screens with D-BOX MFX Seats. This purchase and licensing agreement will generate licensing fees payable to D-BOX in accordance with the systems’ use and increases D-BOX’s footprint in Asia and now brings its total number of theatres to seven in Japan and Hong Kong. Read the rest of this entry »

In May, a new Scotia iTRADE® mobile trading app will give customers who manage their own investments the ability to make equity and option trades on the go from their mobile and smart phones. The Scotia iTRADE mobile applications run on a secure platform. Customer transactions and information linked to the Scotia iTRADE mobile applications are as secure as accessing the same account information from a desk or laptop. Read the rest of this entry »

EA SPORTS™ has invited sports fans from around the world to free their game with FIFA Street, available in retail stores today in North America, and this week throughout Europe for the PlayStation®3 and Xbox 360®. The community buzz and appetite for an authentic street soccer game has pushed the FIFA Street demo to near-record levels of global excitement. More than 2.1 million people have downloaded the demo in the past two weeks, making FIFA Street the second most downloaded demo—behind only FIFA Soccer 12—released by EA SPORTS over the past year, according to internal data provided by SONY and Microsoft. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText has announced a new solution for managing the fast and secure exchange of large files inside and outside enterprises. Easy-to-use and deploy, OpenText Managed File Transfer (MFT) integrates with Microsoft Outlook, helps reduce file attachment size concerns and provides a powerful platform for the secure and auditable exchange of rich digital content including sensitive intellectual property among employees, partners and customers. Read the rest of this entry »

DealTicker.com is the first daily deal site in Canada to officially fully-integrate with Pinterest. Users are now able to “Pin” their favorite deal’s images to their pinboards and share the vast array of product offerings (and exceptional savings) amongst their friends, family, and social networks as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft has announced four new DLC songs for Just Dance 3, including Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen’s “Professor Pumplestickle,” a whimsical number for any duo ready to bust out fun theatrical dance moves; The Reverend Horatio Duncan & Amos Sweets’ “Down by the Riverside,” an upbeat gospel-inspired song that will have you up and dancing in no time; Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America,” a rad British pop song featuring awesome 80’s pop dance moves; and Gorillaz’s “Dare,” an alternative hip hop rock song with a cool funky dance number. The tracks can be downloaded through the in-game Just Dance store for the Nintendo Wii for 250 Wii Points, or on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 240 Microsoft Points. Read the rest of this entry »