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Independent game development studio Red Barrels, founded by veterans from some of gaming’s biggest franchises, today announced that the highly anticipated survival horror game Outlast is now available on Steam. Frightening previewers since this year’s PAX East, where some attendees were so startled that they jumped through the booth, Outlast follows investigative journalist Miles Upshur as he explores Mount Massive Asylum with his trusty night-vision camera, hoping to break the story of his life. But his story – and his life – is quickly put in danger as he discovers a mystery that walks a terrifying line between science and religion, nature and something else entirely… Read the rest of this entry »

Social relationship management platform HootSuite, announces a new partnership with Nexgate, a leader in enterprise social media security, to protect brands and address the increasing compliance and policy management requirements facing social media practitioners. This new partnership provides HootSuite Enterprise customers with a comprehensive compliance solution that protects their brand and secures their organization’s social media network environments from employee misuse, hackers, spam, hate, and malware. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has announced that four new apps have been added to its App Directory, including two of the most popular user requested apps for Gmail and ViralTag for Pinterest to its . The social relationship platform now boasts 65 social networks and tools used by today’s social business. ViralTag brings Pinterest functionality into the HootSuite dashboard, while the Gmail app makes monitoring email alongside real-time social streams easy. The latest release also includes apps video success platform Vidcaster, and selling tool Shopseen. Social media practitioners no longer have to leave the HootSuite dashboard to access their popular social tools, increasing productivity and efficiency. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite, makers of the most widely adopted social relationship platform, has expanded its App Directory with the addition of SugarCRM, the company that makes every user a customer expert. SugarCRM, the customer relationship management tool who recently received $40 million in private equity funding from Goldman Sachs, helps organizations by increasing efficiency and control of the sales and customer service pipeline. SugarCRM joins HootSuite’s existing enterprise-focused apps such as Salesforce and Yammer, to help companies manage social marketing, social customer service, and social selling and is available immediately to HootSuite’s seven million users; and is free for all HootSuite Enterprise clients. Read the rest of this entry »

From Unite 2013 in Vancouver: American 3D character animation pioneer Mixamo has announced the launch of Face Plus, a technology that brings facial animations to 3D characters with just a simple webcam and the Unity editor. Independent developers can now enrich their games with emotional experiences without the high cost and complexity of existing facial animation solutions.  With Face Plus, developers are now able to capture their own facial expressions via standard webcams and transfer them in real time onto a 3D character. A Unity plugin, Face Plus leverages the upcoming Unity 4.3 blendshape technology. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver creative startup Neon Astronauts has released its first title on iTunes. Pick A Hand is designed for both iPhone and iPad and comes in two versions: Lite and Full. The full version is priced at $ 0.99 USD. The concept behind the game is simple: guess which hand is holding the object and get as many in a row correct as you can. Guess wrong, and you go back to zero. Read the rest of this entry »

Medical professionals have always advocated that patients suffering from chronic pain due to conditions such as fibromyalgia, migraines, arthritis, or back pain, should track their pain through a diary. A pain diary app can be a foundational part of a self-management program; however, the challenge is how to get insights from the hundreds of potential logs. Read the rest of this entry »

Zevrix Solutions has released BatchOutput Server 4.9.1, a maintenance update to its powerful output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Developed originally for a major magazine publisher in the United States to free up their operator computers from outputting InDesign files, the software automates InDesign workflow by processing files from hot folders. The software offloads printing and exporting to PDF and PostScript to a central system leaving operator workstations free from the output process. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft^® has announced that Tom Clancy’s™ Splinter Cell^® Blacklist™, the latest entry in the iconic Tom Clancy franchise, is now available in the UK for the PlayStation^®3, Xbox 360^®, Wii U™ and PC.  As lethal operative Sam Fisher, players are given a new mandate to hunt down the masterminds behind the Blacklist, a series of escalating terrorist attacks on U.S interests.  Developed by Ubisoft Toronto, with support from Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Shanghai. Read the rest of this entry »

Music for Productions has just announced that they have added new production music for film and TV. The service offers tracks and original scores for broadcasting, film and television that maintain the quality and standards that are necessary for professional audio tracks. Music for Productions works with new and popular composers to bring the best stock music quality to their clients, and releases new production music for film and TV on a regular basis, to keep productions fresh and to offer the widest variety of production music on the market. Read the rest of this entry »