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Wiggles3D has announced the release of Smile Tiles, a new type of matching puzzle game. Smile Tiles is not about matching colours like other matching puzzle games. You make smiles by moving and rotating monsters to match up eyes with mouths in a variety of different patterns. The game features ten different monsters, each with a unique personality. Boomy was never built quite right, Dizzy is totally out of control, and Wheezy has never been able to get over his cough. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced $1.9 million in funding to ten projects that applied to the Convergent Stream’s Diverse Languages Program. Projects include television productions with digital media components, six in Mandarin, two in Spanish, and one each in Italian and Persian. Of the ten projects, five are documentaries, three are dramas, one is Children’s & Youth, and one is Variety and Performing Arts. Seven projects originated from Ontario, two are from British Columbia and one is from Québec. Read the rest of this entry »

Univa Data Centre Automation Company and home of Grid Engine has announced the release of License Orchestrator to provide license management through Univa Grid Engine, the most widely deployed, distributed resource management software platform today. Reducing the operating costs of IT departments, Univa’s latest solution adds essential planning tools, such as reports on license usage, to maximize a company’s budget spent on software licenses. Built by the creators of Grid Engine, with License Orchestrator you can expect the same robust, enterprise-grade and scalable product as all Univa solutions. Read the rest of this entry »

The Creative BC Project Development Fund provides “market triggered” development financing to British Columbia owned and controlled production companies for individual projects. Applications are evaluated on a first come-first served basis, and funding is available until the budget for the program is expended. A non-recoupable advance, matching up to 50% of the eligible triggering agent commitment is available. Please note that international treaty or inter-provincial co-productions are eligible under this program. Read the rest of this entry »

LULU Software, the publisher of Soda® PDF, a portable document format (PDF) editing and creation application, has announced the acquisition of DOC2PDF Limited, a leader in online document conversion. DOC2PDF has enabled visitors to convert various document formats to PDF and vice-versa for more than 8 years. The UK based company has developed and maintained its dominance as a top source for free online conversion tools. Last year, DOC2PDF converted over 100 million documents for over 10 million users around the world. DOC2PDF will continue to offer free online conversion tools to its users; additionally the company will now have the ability to offer a wider range of services and conversions options. Read the rest of this entry »

Kelsey Ramsden, President of Belvedere Place Developments and Founder of Spark Play, will be in Kelowna on Thursday June 2oth and Friday, June 21st, 2013 to share her insights and random thoughts at two very different events hosted by TEDx and BDC.  Named the #1  Female Business Woman of 2012 by Profit and Chatelaine’s W100 list, Kelsey is coming to Kelowna, a community she loves and who she helped build over the last decade, to encourage Business Owners and Business leaders to play again. Read the rest of this entry »

Eleventh Level Interactive will be launching the latest version of their new game onto the mobile gaming scene on June 19th. SnowSlide Lite is the fourth game from the developer, adding to an already strong foundation. SnowSlide provides easy playability and family friendly fun. The concept of the game is very simple: players use their finger to drag and release the cute animals, who then slide along the ice to their homes based on momentum.  The art style caters to a wide audience, bringing fun loving characters along with strong audio and voice over talent to entertain all ages.  Read the rest of this entry »

Allison Crowe has returned to Canada from the World Premiere screening of “Man of Steel” in New York City, where she experienced the thrills of walking the red carpet at NYC’s Lincoln Center, the musician is proud and humbled to have a cameo in the artistic and commercial hit cinematic reframing of the Superman myth. Read the rest of this entry »

BC’s Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Coralee Oake announced earlier this week that the B.C. government is investing $300,000 over two years in artsVest, a non-profit program helping small and mid-sized arts organizations help themselves through effective private sector fundraising. Read the rest of this entry »

The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) came to a close today, culminating in four days of cutting-edge sessions, V.I.P. interviews, star-studded award ceremonies and a thriving business market, together with many of the world’s leaders from the evolving media landscape. The Festival took place in beautiful Banff from June 9-12th, and we have lots of pictures and video to share with you once we get back in the office to edit them. Read the rest of this entry »