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Gaming

ACTRA Montreal announces 2013 award winners

Stunt performer and coordinator Dave Rigby (pictured) received the Award of Excellence at this year’s awards, presented July 6 in Montreal.

July 9, 2013

Former Club Penguin execs intro Hyper Hippo games

The B.C.-based digital game studio, led by former Disney Club Penguin execs Lance Priebe and Pascale Audette, has teamed with Oktobor Animation to launch the multiplatform game Mech Mice.

June 26, 2013

Ubisoft Quebec makes Francois Pelland development topper

Pelland (pictured), whose Ubisoft credits include Assassin’s Creed III and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, was promoted as the company hires “several dozen” to support new projects.

June 6, 2013

How fan boys drive Machinima into original series

The global video entertainment brand is leveraging millions of interactions on its YouTube channel as it invests in premium original programming.

June 3, 2013

ideaBOOST unveils spring cohort

Projects including Wondereur (pictured), Motion Panels+ and Lightning Platform will participate in the spring session of the CFC Media Lab’s business accelerator program.

May 16, 2013

Minority Media’s Papo & Yo wins big at NUMIX Awards

The Quebec multimedia kudosfest also gave Apartment 11 Productions the best convergent production prize for its kids-based Cross Country Fun Hunt product (Papo & Yo pictured).

May 14, 2013

Far Cry 3 wins at Canadian Videogame Awards

Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3 (pictured) took home six awards, including game of the year, while BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 won three prizes at the ceremony held Saturday.

April 22, 2013

Teletoon Retro launches second-screen trivia game

The online cartoon trivia games, Toon Feud in English and Les P’tits Genies in French, are accessible via tablets, smartphones or computers.

April 18, 2013

Showcase promotes with partners and aliens

The Shaw Media channel has launched a multi-platform campaign, which includes a partnership with EB Games around Defiance and Continuum.

April 16, 2013

Japanese game co Namco Bandai opening Vancouver studio

The game developer and publisher behind classics like Pac-Man is setting up a Vancouver subsidiary at The Centre for Digital Media (pictured) that will develop online social games.

April 12, 2013

Wilby.tv enters pact to make 3D games

The licensing agreement gives the kids’ social media site (pictured) the ability to use Urbanimmersive Technologies’ software to make 3D environments.

March 26, 2013

Canadian Videogame Awards unveils finalists

Klei Entertainment’s Mark of the Ninja (pictured) leads the charge with 11 nominations, while Minority Media’s Papa and Yo and Queasy Games’ Sound Shapes are also up for awards.

March 22, 2013