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14th October 2013

Emerald Winding Up A Very Successful Kickstarter Campaign

krangGAMESEmerald, an atmospheric, story-driven action-adventure game Emerald, currently in development at Vancouver’s KrangGames, is heading into its final 48 hours on Kickstarter, where the campaign has raised $ 7 395.00, surpassing its goal of $ 5 800.00 and heading towards meeting the developer’s sixth stretch goal. Krang’s founder, Nick Yonge (who incidentally celebrated his birthday this past weekend), is very excited by the promotion that Emerald has received over the course of its run on Kickstarter. Read the rest of this entry »

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14th October 2013

David Hayter Joins The Cast Of The Long Dark

hinterlandWith less than 48 hours to go in the Kickstarter campaign for The Long DarkHinterland Games is pleased to announce that one of the most celebrated voice actors in games today has joined the very talented cast for the game. David Hayter is best known for his over 15-year role as the English voice of the iconic video game hero Solid Snake, from Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid series. Read the rest of this entry »

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14th October 2013

X Prize, Virgin Unite And PlayLab Launch Rocket-Building Workshops For Children

playlabWorking in partnership with California’s X Prize Foundation and Galactic Unite (the not-for-profit initiative of Virgin Galactic, its Future Astronaut customers and Virgin Unite), PlayLab has announced a series of rocket-building workshops for children grade 4-7, designed to inspire the next generation of space enthusiasts and innovators. Focusing on a collaborative effort to design, build and test rockets of varying designs, the workshop program helps build innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity skills and exposes children to science, engineering and aerospace technology. The workshop series will start on October 27th 2013, and run for four consecutive Sundays at Northstar Montessori Private School in Mississauga. Read the rest of this entry »

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14th October 2013

New App Makes Print Textbook Pages Come To Life On A Mobile Device

pearsonPrint textbook pages come to life with today’s launch of Pearson BouncePages. Now available on any mobile app store, this free app allows parents, teachers, and students to instantly launch interactive instructional content directly from a textbook page. The app was developed in collaboration with Layar, an international developer of mobile augmented reality and interactive print media with an office in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

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14th October 2013

Evolving Networks Strikes Distribution Deal with Multapplied Networks

multiappliedPeterborough UK carrier and technology resilient bonded internet connections supplier Evolving Networks has announced a partnership with Vancouver-based Multapplied Networks to add to their established product set of bonded connectivity solutions. Bonded connectivity is designed to improve both network performance and resilience by combining multiple internet connections to form a single line, allowing users to benefit from the network resilience and aggregated throughput capacities of different technologies all through a single IP address. The popularity of bonded access has been, and continues to become, increasingly popular across the world. Read the rest of this entry »

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14th October 2013

Connect MailChimp To Excel With Analytics Edge Add-in

mini-orbyOttawa software developer Analytics Edge has released a new connector for its Microsoft Excel add-in that provides direct access to MailChimp campaign and mailing list data. Reinforcing the company’s mantra that computers should do the work for you, the connector lets you automate the transfer of data between MailChimp’s servers and Excel workbooks on your computer. Read the rest of this entry »

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14th October 2013

Brotherhood Of Violence 2 – Blood Impact Now on iTunes

realtech-vrMontreal’s Realtech VR has just released a long awaited updated of it latest iOS game: Brotherhood of Violence 2 – Blood Impact, which is not just a video game, but a whole new gaming experience. Game app features exceptional 3D graphics, thanks to a very high end 3D engine. The game, which is now available on iTunes, also benefits from artificial intelligence (AI), so it is always evolving, learning the users moves, and becoming even more challenging. With stunning cinematic effects, advanced lighting, and detail that is unparalleled, users will feel like they are actually in the game. Read the rest of this entry »

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