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Xenoblade Chronicles™, the new, highly-anticipated role-playing adventure for the Nintendo Wii™ console, will arrive on Canadian store shelves this Thursday, April 5^th  at 2pm ET– the day before the U.S. launch. Xenoblade Chronicles has already launched in Japan and Europe, receiving unanimously positive reviews and several perfect scores. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom and EA Partners have announced that the pre-order campaign for the upcoming modern-day massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, The Secret World is now live. Everyone who pre-orders the game will be guaranteed access to all Beta Weekends beginning May 11, 2012 running most weekends up until the game’s launch on June 19, 2012 on PC.  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 »

One of the next big things coming to a theatre near you will be movies shot and projected at rates much faster than currently – a process designed to dramatically improve the overall audience experience, particularly with 3D movies. With directors such as James Cameron and Peter Jackson planning projects that will use this High Frame Rate (HFR) technology, there’s a need to develop international technical standards and to explore how moviemakers can use the new technology most effectively. Read the rest of this entry »

Singular Software, a Vancouver-based developer of workflow automation applications for video production, is pleased to introduce CloudEyes, a cloud-based media synchronization technology that lets producers and contributors share and mine footage for remote video collaborations. 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 »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced that the agency has concluded a five-month investigation, taking enforcement action against 85 companies for breaking the telemarketing rules. This investigation marks the latest step in the CRTC’s efforts, using a variety of enforcement strategies, to reduce unwanted calls made to Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s federal government should take all steps necessary to ensure the standards and values behind Canadian privacy laws are not diminished as programs to fulfill the Canada-US perimeter security action plan are developed, say Canada’s privacy guardians. Read the rest of this entry »

Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece from Longbow Games is an historical real-time strategy game that takes you back to the days of Philip and Socrates, Pericles and Brasidas. With three different campaigns to choose from, as well as a sandbox mode, you can relive the glory days of Athens, Sparta and Macedon. Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece is available for the low price of $19.99. If you already own Hegemony: Philip of Macedon on Steam, then you can upgrade to Gold for only $9.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Softchoice’s analysis of 78 corporate networking environments reveals that neglecting device management is exposing organizations to the risk of network outage, ratcheting up maintenance costs, and degrading network performance. While global spending on network security is estimated at more than $7 billion annually and growing, without effective asset management, network maintenance represents a significant and largely overlooked threat to many organizations. Read the rest of this entry »