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Gaming
Bell Fund invests in 15 projects in latest round
Tween series The Next Step, sci-fi series Primeval: New World and Quebec DJ doc Histoire de Deejays are among the selected projects.
Cookie Jar partners with Fuhu on kid-friendly tablet
The animation producer will provide library content for an Android tablet.
CFC to launch Music Lab in the fall
The new initiative, which will include a music residency for composers and songwriters, will create business opportunities to increase the use of Canadian musical talent onscreen.
We’re looking for the New Establishment
We’re asking Playback‘s readers and industry insiders to help us identify the best and brightest of their peers for the inaugural award.
Digital media industry needs early stage financing to grow: report
The report, New Directions for the Financing of Interactive Digital Media in Canada also called for new business models in the country’s convergent media programs.
Banff 2012: Canada Media Fund unveils Canadaonscreen.ca website
The online initiative aims to showcase and celebrate Canadian TV programming and digital content consumed widely at home and abroad.
Cineflix launches Instant Cash tie-in app
The prodco says broadcasters increasingly want new media components like apps to deliver added value to content.
Toronto Cronenberg exhibit gets social media game
The fall 2013 show will be packed into a tour after its Toronto run at TIFF Bell Lightbox, to rollout in summer 2014.
Almost Naked Animals gets into gaming
Toronto-based game developer Game Pill will create an online video game, with mobile apps planned for 2012, based on 9 Story Entertainment’s animated series.
Project Overboard to power up at this year’s T.O. Jam
Ryan Henson Creighton of Toronto-based game development studio Untold Entertainment talks to Playback about his project for this weekend’s three-day game-making event.
Audience numbers key in showing digital ROI success, developers say
The so-called freemium model, which provide free trials of content with online properties, is showing great promise as a marketing and sales tool.
Gamerizon, Sardine Productions get transmedia Chop Chop Ninja deal
The Montreal-based companies will develop mobile, web and TV-based content with Teletoon Canada.
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