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St. John’s-based indie developer Celsius Game Studios has opened a Kickstarter campaign to help move the production of its latest title towards completion. Drifter – A Space Trading Game is an open-world sandbox space trading game that takes place in a galaxy with thousands of stars and endless possibilities. Live the simple life of a merchant, become a bounty hunter, take on work for hire, become a fearsome pirate, or simply explore the galaxy around you, the choice is yours. Read the rest of this entry »

The First Annual Ottawa Game Conference (OGC), to be held at the Ottawa Convention Centre on May 29, 2012, has announced its speaker lineup, including keynotes from Gabe Zichermann, author and gamification expert, and Jason Della Rocca, founder of Perimeter Partners and former Executive Director of the International Game Developers Association. Read the rest of this entry »

Scotland’s Dimensional Imaging (DI) has announced the delivery of the latest version of its DI3D™ software to Electronic Arts. EA has been using DI3D™ software to capture highly accurate 3D facial likenesses of athletes and performers for inclusion in its videogames since 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Videogame Awards were handed out in Vancouver Saturday evening, with indie developed game Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP from Capybara Games in Toronto and Eidos-Montreal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution each taking home five awards. FIFA Soccer 12 from Electronic Arts was the public’s choice for Game of the Year, and NHL 12 from Electronic Arts was named the top selling videogame in Canada. Other individual winners included Margaritaville Online from Exploding Barrel Games, and Assassin’s Creed Revelations and Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012, both from Ubisoft Montreal.  All the awards were for work developed in Canada and released in 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

GREE has announced that the corporation has made a minority investment in Vancouver-based game developer IUGO Mobile Entertainment Inc. IUGO specializes in the design, development and deployment of premium quality mobile games. The new partnership follows GREE’s recent investment in Tokyo-based HTML5 powerhouse Wizcorp. Read the rest of this entry »

A consortium of Ottawa-based game developers led by bitHeads/PlayBrains, Fuel Industries, Magmic and Snowed In Studios today announced the First Annual Ottawa Game Conference, to be held at the Ottawa Convention Center on May 29, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Our first Video Pick of the Day is for the student-developed game Tank’d, which you can try for yourself on the VFS Projects site. We had a chance to view the student pitch for this game, as well as give it a trial play, a few months ago at Vancouver Film School. The game was developed by David Felipe Franco Morales, Andres Molina, Dylan Loney and Alberto A Braga. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced its diverse lineup for PAX East, including Assassin’s Creed® III, Far Cry® 3, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier™ and a number of acclaimed digital and iOS titles. Attendees can check out Ubisoft’s lineup at booths 824 and 836 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on April 6–8, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

ConceptShare has released its Game Studios, Outsourcing and Creative Review IQ white paper (PDF), presented at the recent 2012 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The white paper documents Creative Review Best Practices observed across multiple game teams that rely on outsourcing for asset production.  The best practices provide game studios a way to measure how effectively they are managing their outsourcing workflow. Read the rest of this entry »

PromaxBDA, the association dedicated to the success of marketing, promotion and design professionals in entertainment and the interactive community, has announced the finalists for the Game Marketing Awards, the first and only annual awards competition established to honor the finest work created by the marketing professionals in the game marketing community. Read the rest of this entry »