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Organized by Interactive Ontario, GameON: Finance connects the games industry’s leading players to new business opportunities in the interactive entertainment industries.

While the first day offered a variety of sessions on venture capital, project-funding, value of analytics, lean start-up models, and exit strategies, there was a single and consistant message to game studios: Read the rest of this entry »

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED

The Vancouver chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH invites you to The Art of Modern Warfare 3, featuring presentations by Sledgehammer Games’ Art Director Joe Salud and CG Supervisor David Blizard, at District 319 on January 17th, with the doors opening to ticket holders at 6pm for a pre-event networking reception. Read the rest of this entry »

Part comedy competition, part performance and part informational, this Great Gamification Debate will settle, once and for all, three burning questions: What is gamification? What is it good for? And why does it matter? The Big Event will take place at The Hive, which is located at #210 – 128 West Hastings Street in Vancouver, on the evening of February 2nd. Read the rest of this entry »

GameHouse, the gaming division of RealNetworks,  has announced that the company is expanding its social game studio to a new office at 712 Yates in Victoria, where it aims to double its staff to at least 45 people by the end of 2012. GameHouse Canada takes an indie approach to game production, encouraging designers to express their creative freedom during game development. The new downtown studio opens on January 16th and will offer its staff several perks including an open and collaborative working environment, a plush gaming and entertainment lounge, creative Fridays, and more. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s creative talent will once again gather on the West Coast this spring to celebrate its world-class video game developers at the third annual Canadian Videogame Awards ceremony to take place in Vancouver on April 3, 2012 during the International Digital Media Summit in Vancouver. Details about the Digital Media Summit have yet to be released. Read the rest of this entry »

The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) have announced the Platinum Sponsorship of ProSiebenSat.1 Games, the second largest media group in Europe. As well as supporting the Awards as a sponsor, ProSiebenSat.1 Games will give IMGA winners access to their expertise in the field of integrated communications through a package of media exposure worth up to one million euros. Read the rest of this entry »

The International Game Developers’ Association annual sleep deprivation weekend is fast approaching, and applications for Site Hosts are still being accepted. I’m referring of course to the annual Global Game Jam, which will be held this coming January 27th through 29th. Some Canadian locations have already been announced, but I’m sure there will be more to come as the event gets closer. Read the rest of this entry »

The Fonds de solidarité FTQ has announced an $8 million investment in Vancouver’s 7GEntertainment which will be used to launch online video game publishing and hosting services. Roughly 100 jobs will be created over the next two years as a result of this investment. The announcement was made today by Fonds president and CEO Yvon Bolduc during a speech at the Canadian Club of Montreal. Also on hand were Anthony Brown, CEO of 7GEntertainment and Alain Denis, Senior Vice-President of New Economy at the Fonds. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you a digital media or gaming professional seeking to advance your skills or launch new gaming projects? Ryerson University’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, in partnership with Interactive Ontario, now offers courses for digital professionals seeking to advance in the fields of gaming and digital media development. From project and human resources management to entrepreneurial finance, behaviour, and strategy, the EDGE: Education for Digital Games Entrepreneurs program will deliver the expertise and training digital professionals and entrepreneurs need to advance in a dynamic and growing industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Phil Rogers, President and CEO of video game publisher Square Enix Europe and Stéphane D’Astous, General Manager of development studio Eidos-Montréal will be making a very special announcement at Club 1234 on November 21^st. Square Enix is about to up the ante in Montreal’s video game industry with an expansion to the Eidos studio. Read the rest of this entry »