Interactive

Caution: Nuts’ Delmer and Marta tell Canadians’ fortunes

The popular characters from APTN sketch comedy series Caution: May Contain Nuts tell fortunes on love and money via a new interactive digital website to promote the show’s third season.

GameON Finance: Canada is ‘the best country to build a game company’

In his keynote Tuesday, entrepreneur and Big Viking Games founder Albert Lai said Canada is primed to become a major gaming industry player.

TIFF’s Sprockets fest evolves into twin film and gaming events

As digital storytelling evolves, the Toronto International Film Festival is rolling out new spring festivals for kids and teen audiences at the Bell Lightbox.

iPowow Canada joins the conversation

A new Canadian service based on Australian technology, iPowow links second- and first-screen entertainment in real time.

AToMiC: Rogers and L’Oreal Canada launch beauty series

All content for the six-part Canada’s Best Beauty Talent series, created in conjunction with ZenithOptimedia, will be used across Rogers platforms.

User collab key to success: OMDC Digital Dialogues

The Disruptive Consumption panel, moderated by Arise Communications president Andrew Rosenman, agreed that focusing on the user experience is the future of digital content creation.

Smokebomb’s Totally Amp’d targets tweens on the go

A new 10-“appisode” series for kids and tweens features unlockable interactive content that lets iOS devices act as music, movie and design studios.

Moment Factory looks to dazzle Le Tricheur viewers in real time

The new TVA quiz show incorporates an interactive set designed to react to gameplay in real time. Here, studio partner Eric Fournier tells Playback how it’s done.

GameHouse set to expand Victoria studio

The studio will specialize in creating games for social platforms and aims to double its Canadian staff to at least 45 people by the end of 2012.

Talking transmedia with Anita Ondine

The producer and transmedia guru talks to Playback about the challenges of financing projects in the new media space.

Best of the Year: Sportsnet

Playback marks Rogers Media’s major expansion of the Sportsnet brand this year by taking a trip through a day in the life of a cross-platform story.

Kelso on CIAIC’s new mission

The former Interactive Ontario head talks about his new role and revitalizing the Canadian Interactive Alliance/Alliance Interactive Canadienne, a national non-profit trade association.