U.S. game maker follows lead of Ubisoft and EA — 400 jobs expected

Funders of interactive content are feeling the squeeze, making sponsorship deals an increasingly attractive option for producers

Toronto shop puts former CBC exec in charge of creative for its interactive division

Canwest exec insists it can be done, but Barb Williams says only because her side of the business buys good shows

TV and new media execs to co-mingle at next conference. OMDC teases intellectual property fund

Channel lineup for online video push takes shape

Facebook has become a part of so many people’s lives that you couldn’t imagine a movie or a TV series not having a presence on it. And Canadians are among the world’s biggest users of the social media site, a point reinforced a couple of years ago when Toronto became the first city to register its one-millionth Facebook member. (Presumably my fellow citizens just can’t get enough of the blow-by-blow daily goings-on of the school chums they had successfully avoided for the previous 20 years.)

The CRTC has put the brakes on Internet throttling, laying down new guidelines for Internet service providers that allow the controversial practice only as ‘a last resort.’ The federal regulator is also calling for greater transparency from ISPs, requiring them to provide more information about their services to consumers.

Teletoon is allowing viewers to comment on, and vote for, 10 original pilots for potential development into series. The pilots, targeted at males 18 to 34, were commissioned as part of an effort to find new programming for the cable channel’s evening and nighttime lineup. They will run simultaneously on sympatico.ca and thedetour.ca for 10 weeks. The eleventh week will feature the pilot of a series already in development. The episodes will also be available through iTunes.

Tribal Nova transfers game production division for equity stake in ODD1