Village Gamer

Electronic Arts Inc. has announced that EA SPORTS™ FIFA 14 is available in retail stores now throughout North America, and as a digital download on Origin™. The game releases worldwide later this week. More than 5 million* fans worldwide—the most ever for an EA SPORTS game—have played the FIFA 14 demo and the game has received 32 review scores of 9 out of 10 or higher, including five perfect scores. Read the rest of this entry »

PEER 1 Hosting announced today that it is launching its recently released enterprise-class VMware public cloud solution, Mission Critical Cloud, in New York City, Seattle, Chicago and Salt Lake City. These new locations add to existing Mission Critical Cloud availability in Canada, the UK and Germany. PEER 1 is also introducing Magento-Optimized Build Blueprints for Mission Critical Cloud eCommerce customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom‘s The Secret World is offering its players a new chain of events called The Whispering Tide. In these events the whole community joins together to fight the Filth invasion in the hollow earth – Agartha. The first event in this chain starts today, Friday the 20^th of September, and lasts until the players have overcome the new challenge by beating back the Filth’s attack. As the players work together they unlock more new content and rewards. Read the rest of this entry »

BroadbandTV, YouTube’s fourth largest Multi-Channel Network, has just officially launched VISO Catalyst, its powerful web-platform that enables channel partners to optimize their video content and save time and money by more effectively managing their digital assets. Benchmarking analysis across 1062 videos uncovered that on average, users of VISO Catalyst benefit from an approximate 34% increase in viewership of their content in just 30 days. Read the rest of this entry »

MaRS Discovery District officially launched its new impact investing platform, SVX (Social Venture Connexion), in an announcement this morning at the Toronto Stock Exchange. It is the first local impact investment platform of its kind in North America. To celebrate the launch, Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District, joined Tom Kloet, CEO, TMX Group, the Hon. Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Employment, and Adam Spence, Associate Director, MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, to open trading this morning at 9:30 a.m. Read the rest of this entry »

US-based MailChimp has announced a new and enhanced integration with social relationship platform HootSuite, making it even easier for marketing teams who use HootSuite and MailChimp to manage their social and email campaigns all from one dashboard. Read the rest of this entry »

Roxio has introduced Roxio Creator® NXT 2, featuring accelerated performance, enhanced support for the latest devices and new audio and music options. Roxio Creator NXT 2 is the complete and easy-to-use multimedia suite that enables you to make movies faster, easily enhance photos and share your digital media to more devices. Enjoy a more responsive movie-making experience with video rendering that’s up to 10x faster. Edit and retouch photos with ease. Rip, mix, burn and share your favorite music. Powerful tools let you burn, back up, copy and preserve files to CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Share almost anywhere with support for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iPad, Facebook, YouTube and more. Built-in tutorials and a printable instructions guide help you get started fast. Read the rest of this entry »

theScore, Inc. has released a fully optimized iOS 7 experience for its iPhone and iPad app to deliver even faster news, scores and stats along with a stylish new design. theScore users with devices running iOS 7 will benefit from an attractive new user interface, adopting the eye-catching layers, animations and translucency of Apple’s most powerful mobile operating system ever. theScore also utilizes iOS 7’s powerful multitasking capabilities to deliver sports content faster than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver studio Piranha Games and Montreal publisher Infinite Game Publishing have announced the official launch of free to play title MechWarrior Online. Sporting a base of more than 1.3 million registered pilots, the free-to-play MechWarrior Online allows pilots to take control of the most powerful mechanical battle units the universe has ever seen. Set in the year 3050 during the early stages of a massive interstellar war, MechWarrior Online puts you in command of the most powerful war machine to ever walk the field of battle, the mighty BattleMech. Pilot your ‘Mech and customize it to suit your preferred battlefield role; upgrade systems, weapons, and armor with endless options giving you creative control over your battle strategy as you face your next opponent.  MechWarrior Online delivers a rich online experience, rewarding everything a player does with experience points, C-Bills, unlocks, and recognition. Read the rest of this entry »

Today the Canada Media Fund (CMF), in collaboration with Konrad Group, launched InnovaTV, a new online resource that takes an in-depth look at emerging technologies that enable producers to create TV content in new and innovative ways. With 12 presentations already being offered, this new resource provides developers, technologists and creators with a platform to share useful information on innovation and convergence in the television industry. The presentations already available include  interviews on such topics as t-commerce (transactional interfaces related to digital TV content) and the influence of social networks on television consumption. Read the rest of this entry »