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Electronic Arts Inc. has outlined the 2012 – 2013 benefits to the EA SPORTS™ Season Ticket program. The second year of the program is bigger and better with even more value accessible to EA SPORTS consumers with the addition of more than $100 of paid downloadable content (DLC) across the five participating franchises – Madden NFL, NHL®, FIFA, and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® . In addition to the $100 of paid downloadable content included, the program will continue to offer three day early access to all participating titles and 20 percent off any additional paid downloadable content purchased for the participating titles. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts Inc. has unveiled the complete music track listing for EA SPORTS™ FIFA 13, featuring a mix of genre-spanning music from 50 Gold/Platinum superstars and breakthrough artists representing 12 countries from around the globe. The soundtrack reflects the passion and intensity of FIFA gameplay while defining the sound of the upcoming season for football fans worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Frima Studio has announced the official debut of their CosmoCamp children’s brand with the launch of the first two apps from the CosmoCamp universe. Designed with input from child development specialists, the CosmoCamp apps are intended as educational entertainment for toddlers (ages 2-3) and pre-schoolers (ages 4-5). CosmoCamp: Picnic Problems interactive storybook, and CosmoCamp: Coloring Book, are available today for iPad and Android tablets, and are coming soon to Kindle Fire for $3.99 each. Read the rest of this entry »

Snowed In Studios, an Ottawa-based video game and interactive media developer, has launched its in-development PC building-block RPG Windforge, on the Steam Greenlight platform. With the launch comes the release of an anticipated gameplay trailer showing pre-Alpha footage of the game. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc., creators of Burn The Rope, have announced the global release of My Singing Monsters, available now as a free download from the iTunes app store.  My Singing Monsters is a world-building game where the player collects and breeds cute monsters. However, there’s a big difference that sets this game far apart from others of the genre; these monsters sing, play and dance.  In the world of My Singing Monsters, each species has its own voice/instrument and personality.  Monsters groove along with the beat until it’s their turn to perform and then, away they go! The player has considerable control over the ensemble; monsters can be muted for silence or multiplied for greater volume. Creating different groupings adds further variety to the performance. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s going to be the party of the year! Frima Studio is pleased to announce that Lights, Camera, Party! is now available on the PlayStation Network for PlayStation Move. Powered by the Unreal Engine, this unique, fast-paced PS Move party game will have friends and family jumping out of their seats to best each other in an array of zany mini-games. Read the rest of this entry »

Beginning August 27^th at EB Games stores in Canada, Pokémon fans can receive the newly discovered Mythical Pokemon Keldeo in their copies of Pokémon Black Version or Pokémon White Version. This colourful, incredibly powerful Fighting- and Water-type Pokémon cannot be caught during normal gameplay, and this EB Games distribution is only for a limited time. Once players receive the Original Form Keldeo in their game, it can be transferred into the new Pokémon Black Version 2 or Pokémon White Version 2 games, arriving in stores on October 7^th. In the new games, players will be able to play out a cool scenario that not only transforms Keldeo into a new form but also teaches it its signature move!
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Today Frima Studio visits NYC to kick-off the Frimarathon, a month long flurry of game releases with a little something for everybody. The culmination of more than a year of effort by Frima’s original IP team, the Frimarathon will showcase five titles across multiple platforms set to be released in the next five weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal developer Hibernum Creations has announced that its hit action-puzzle game Blockolicious is now available to play for free on Facebook! Appropriate for players of all ages, Blockolicious for Facebook is published in cooperation with KONAMI and includes new socially-connected leaderboards that really juice up the competition across every version of the game. From the massive chains of Marathon Mode to the heart-pounding rush of Sprint Mode, players everywhere can have a taste of Blockolicious’ arcade action in their favorite browser today. Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo has launched both an exciting new game and a cool new system to play it on. Canadian residents can now get their hands on two of the hottest video game products of the year: New Super Mario Bros. 2 and the new Nintendo 3DS XL portable system. Nintendo 3DS XL offers screens that are 90 per cent larger than the original Nintendo 3DS, and sells at a suggested retail price of $199.99. Read the rest of this entry »