-
Founders Of BioWare Announce Retirement After 20 Years In The Video Game Industry
0By: Talha Bhatti | September 26th, 2012 | Games, News, O Canada
On September 18, the video game industry heard the unexpected announcement that the two founders of the electronic entertainment firm BioWare were retiring. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk founded the company and will be leaving the video game industry after 20 years. The two friends and video game enthusiasts put their farewell letters on BioWare...
Continue Reading -
Big Fish Unlimited Launches 100 Games For Android Tablets
By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Games, News, Tablets
At the end of last month Big Fish Games launched its cloud gaming service for Android tablets. The gaming company’s latest news comes a mere month after launching the same service, called Big Fish Unlimited, for PCs with internet connections. The move to Android tabl...
Continue Reading -
TIFF Nexus Demonstrates Interactive Cinema Developed By wallFour
By: Talha Bhatti | September 19th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Games, News, O Canada
Last week TIFF Nexus brought together a group of people to create a panel that would get a glimpse of the future of cinema and gaming. The crowd was seated in a theater where they would watch Renga; an interactive cinema experience developed by the British company wallFour. Renga allow...
Continue Reading -
Ubisoft Launches Top Of The Line Motion Capture Studio In Toronto
By: Talha Bhatti | September 18th, 2012 | Business, Games, News, O Canada
Toronto is getting a new high tech resident as Ubisoft announced that it is creating a state of the art studio in the Canadian city. Ubisoft already had a presence in the country thanks to its performance capture studio established in Montreal during 2010. The latest news means that the Montreal set up will be wrapped up and the new offices i...
Continue Reading -
Canadians Show Their Love for Madden NFL 13 on Twitter
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 16th, 2012 | Games, O Canada
Fans of football and gaming are very familiar with EA Sports and their benchmark game, Madden NFL. Routinely released before the official NFL season kicks off in September, the game features the accurate roster information, game play and a bevy of innovative features that con...
Continue Reading -
3G PlayStation Vita To Be Launched in Canada By October
By: Talha Bhatti | September 15th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Games, News, O Canada
PlayStation fans in Canada will have to wait just a little bit longer for the brand new 3G PlayStation Vita. The hand held gaming platform from Sony has been released in other places around the world but is still to make its debut on Canadian shores.
Continue Reading -
RocketOwl Uses Social Gaming To Battle Deforestation
By: Talha Bhatti | September 13th, 2012 | Business, Games, Living, O Canada
Canadian game development company, RocketOwl, is not your average start-up. The Ottawa based social and mobile game creator has a strong opinion about the need to protect our environment and the company is not afraid to let others know. In fact, the firm has tried to make sure that their tree friendly thoughts are front and center in their games...
Continue Reading -
This Little Piggie Got Played. Latest Version of Angry Birds Lets You Play as the Pigs
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 7th, 2012 | Android, Games, iOS, Mobile Apps
The Angry Birds phenomenon is as likely to slow down as Tim Tebow media coverage this weekend is. The addictive series of games featuring angry birds dropping chaos on egg stealing pigs has taken a role reversal for its latest iteration. Due to release later this month,
Continue Reading -
EA Sports NHL 13 Will Feature Two Female Players Including a Canadian Legend
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 1st, 2012 | Games, News, O Canada
For the first time in the history of video gaming, a professional sports game will feature actual female players. The watershed moment comes by way of EA Sports latest NHL video game NHL 13. The news was revealed earlier this week by the Redwood City, California based company who also has a team of developers based ou...
Continue Reading -
NASA Teams with Angry Birds Again, Introduce Curiosity Rover in Latest Space Update
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 24th, 2012 | Games, Mobile Apps
We had shared with you some time ago (TQ was on it) that Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment Ltd. had teamed with NASA to create the incredibly popular Angry Birds Space game which featured micro-gravity and other space elements into gam...
Continue Reading
