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| “Wii For Women” event Sept. 21 |
| 2008-09-20 13:53:03 |
I got the following report off Canada Newswire:
Best Buy Canada and Nintendo of Canada Ltd. are joining forces this fall to spread the word across Canada about female-friendly gaming. It’s no longer just teenagers playing video games - its everybody, including young girls, moms and even seniors.
Best Buy’s “Wii(TM) for Women” events will feature gaming experts [...]
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| N+ for DS and PSP |
| 2008-09-04 21:38:16 |
Last summer I completed a contract for Silverbirch Studios. I helped design levels for a game called N+. N+ is the successor to the popular flash game called N, originally developed by Metanet Software.
N+ just came out last week on the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable (PSP). It sells for around $20 and can be found at most [...]
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| Toronto Gaming Expo 2008 |
| 2008-08-16 12:01:59 |
The Toronto Gaming Expo will be held from August 22 to 24. It is part of the annual Toronto Fan Expo which features comic book, anime, science fiction, and horror themed exhibits, guests, and vendors.
Billed as the largest gaming event in Canada, the Gaming Expo will be having cash prize tournaments for console games such [...]
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| New directory listing: Acronym Games, Anomalik, Everywhere Games |
| 2008-07-31 19:03:26 |
A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Games out of Vancouver is an independent games develoment studio. Their latest release is Rocketmen: Axis of Evil, available on both Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network.
Anomalik is a casual games developer for both the Mac and PC. They are located in Montreal and their latest release is Age of Tesla, a rhythm based game.
Everywhere [...]
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| Tips for getting into the games industry |
| 2008-07-20 12:35:51 |
The other day someone emailed me to basically explain the Catch 22 of the games industry (or any industry for that matter): to get a job you need experience, but to gain that experience, you first need to get a job.
There are some games companies that will still hire people with no games industry experience. But the industry has matured to [...]
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| 2012: Death of the Internet? |
| 2008-07-12 11:37:14 |
The year 2012 has long been prophesied as a time of major world changes. The ancient Mayan calendar marks 2012 as the end of time. This can be interpreted in many ways including Armageddon; or it can mean the dawn of a new age of enlightenment. However, it seems that 2012 may be the year that [...]
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| jPod re-airing tonight |
| 2008-06-19 17:32:38 |
A reminder for fans of jPod that the re-airing of 13 episode season one starts tonight at 8PM on the CBC. If the numbers are better this time around, then perhaps the CBC may give the show a second season.
A recap of the premise:
“jPod is a one hour comedic television show that is broadcast on the [...]
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| AMP national gaming tour |
| 2008-06-16 12:10:43 |
AMP Your Game is a gaming tour that is making its way across Canada. Touted as the largest event of its kind, entry is free at most locations. Attendees can expect to play the latest games on over 80 gaming stations, compete in tournaments for prizes, and even get the chance to be recruited for [...]
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| jPod is back! Sort of… |
| 2008-06-04 23:03:20 |
Thanks to Chad and K for passing on this info…
jPod is back! Well, sort of. For those that are unfamiliar with jPod, here is my description of it from one of my previous posts:
“jPod is a one hour comedic television show that is broadcast on the CBC. It’s based on best-selling author Douglas Coupland’s book [...]
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| Canadian Electronic Sports World Cup Final 2008 |
| 2008-05-31 18:32:04 |
The following press release was recently announced. More can be read at Vancouver’s VanLan.
The Canadian Electronic Sports World Cup National Final for 2008 to be held August 4th through 6th.
OFFICIAL ESWC CANADA PRESS RELEASE
ESWC CANADA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP DATES ANNOUNCED
Vancouver, Canada - The countdown has begun to find the best video gaming talent in Canada and to win [...]
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| Finding Zoe game |
| 2008-05-29 22:32:29 |
Finding Zoe is a free online flash game that promotes the creation of positive relationships between girls and boys. The game is geared towards kids aged 8-14 years old, and explores root causes of violence against women and girls. Among its helpful lessons, it also challenges gender stereotypes and helps kids learn the warning signs of violence.
Finding Zoe was developed by California-based Take Action Games for [...]
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| New directory listing: Pitch Mobile |
| 2008-05-22 22:25:05 |
Pitch Mobile is an independent game developer located on the east coast in Moncton, New Brunswick. They are relatively new, having been founded in 2006. Pitch has already developed a few flash games and has several other games in development, including music games for the Nintendo DS.
You can try out some of their flash games for free on their site. [...]
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| Email address harvesting |
| 2008-05-15 21:25:15 |
I’ve recently made a change in the way company email addresses are displayed on CanDevs. Where listed, the @ character of a company’s email address has been removed and replaced with an image of the character instead. This is to help prevent email address harvesting. Email address harvesting is basically the process of obtaining lists of [...]
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| New directory listing: Gnosis Games |
| 2008-05-13 22:24:15 |
Gnosis Games is the casual games division of Threewave Software, an FPS content developer. Gnosis Games is located in Vancouver, and has released several titles including Paprazzi, Private Eye, and Candace Kane’s Candy Factory. In addition, Gnosis has started to move into online social networks making their games available on sites such as Facebook.
Gnosis’ games [...]
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| Vancouver Game Summit May 21-22 2008 |
| 2008-05-06 10:37:05 |
The Vancouver International Game Summit is being held this month. It’s a conference/exhibition geared towards the video games development community. The event is focused on presenting global perspectives on developing games for next generation consoles. The target audience is studio executives, programmers, artists, publishers, game designers, producers, educators, students, and human resources professionals. There will also be educational, networking and business [...]
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| Max Payne movie being filmed in Toronto |
| 2008-04-29 22:44:22 |
Remember Max Payne? It’s the 3rd person shooter that originally came out on PC in 2001 then later on Xbox and PS2. It also spawned a sequel that came out in 2003. Well, it’s being made into a full length movie (there are unofficial fan films already out there by the way). Anyway, the new movie is being [...]
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| Toronto Independent Game Development Jam 2008 |
| 2008-04-25 22:42:38 |
The Toronto Independent Game Development Jam (or TOJam for short) is an annual gathering for the pupose of making video games. The event is open to the public so anyone of any skill level can attend. Be it hobbyists, students, or professionals - the event looks for coders, artists, musicians, designers, or anyone else that can lend a hand [...]
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| New directory listing: Ingenuity Works |
| 2008-04-23 20:27:29 |
Ingenuity Works is a company that develops and distributes educational software and Internet programs aimed at students from Kindergarten to grade 12. Used in more than 40,000 schools, their award-winning titles cover subjects ranging from math, social studies, language arts, computer technology, science, and keyboarding. Ingenuity Works has been developing products for more than 20 years and is located in [...]
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| Gamecamp Toronto 2 May 3, 2008 |
| 2008-04-20 12:50:09 |
Gamecamp Toronto 2 will be held on May 3, 2008 from 10AM-3PM, at the Bahen Center of Information Technology in Toronto. Registration to attend is free.
GameCamp’s tagline:
“GameCamp Toronto 2 is an event which aims to increase awareness of the game development industry in Toronto. We hope to grow the community of our city into a [...]
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| Toronto’s Pseudo Interactive to close |
| 2008-04-13 11:43:10 |
I just found out that Toronto based games developer Pseudo Interactive is closing its doors. Pseudo is the studio behind the Full Auto games. They have been around since 1995 and employed about 50 people. This is unfortunate for everyone employed at Pseudo; and a blow to Canadian based companies.
The decision to close shop was based on publisher Eidos’ [...]
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| Free subscription to Game Developer magazine |
| 2008-04-12 16:46:40 |
Game Developer magazine is dedicated to covering the video games industry. It is mostly meant for developers, the “insiders”, as opposed to it being geared towards gamers. Its stories deal with trends in the industry, new technologies, dissection of game projects after their completion, and other such tidbits. Game Developer is also sort of the [...]
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| Get some cheap games |
| 2008-04-06 10:10:21 |
If you live in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), or want to come down and visit, there’s a store in Mississauga that sells cheap PC and console games. It’s called Entertainment Liquidators and is located at Eglinton Ave. and Dixie Rd. Entertainment Liquidators is one of those discount warehouse type places that has very sparse [...]
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| Neotronic Arts |
| 2008-04-05 10:04:09 |
Neotronic Arts located in Burnaby BC is now hiring! Click the links on the main page to apply for current openings.
One of NA’s current projects is a new type of skateboarding game called BoardX. BoardX is an original intellectual property that’s set to introduce a new experience to the skateboarding genre. It’s set for a late 2008 [...]
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| XOP Black |
| 2008-03-31 19:27:21 |
XOP Black is a cool little shmup (shoot ‘em up). It’s actually a sequel to 2002’s XOP. Christopher (based in Toronto), one the talents behind the game sent me a message to check it out. Even if you’re not a fan of these types of games, I suggest you give this one a try. It’s [...]
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| New Directory Listing: Other Ocean Interactive & Sculpin QA |
| 2008-03-26 22:06:02 |
Other Ocean Interactive was originally known as Backbone Charlottetown, part of the the Backbone Entertainment group of studios under Foundation 9 Entertainment. The studio became independent in May of 2007; and is located on Prince Edward Island. Games worked on by Other Ocean include Tron/Discs of Tron (XBLA), Ultimate Mortal Kombat (DS), and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (XBLA).
Normally I would write one [...]
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| Defendoid |
| 2008-03-21 09:48:07 |
Defendoid is an old-school 80s style side scroller that can be played online. You control a space ship while waves and waves of alien craft try to destroy you. It’s a simple game, but gets harder the further you progress. Your ship can be upgraded with double-fire and you get 1ups. At the end of [...]
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| New Directory Listing: Xtreme Prototypes |
| 2008-03-17 22:37:23 |
Xtreme Prototypes is a game studio based in Montreal. They specialize in creating very high quality 3D add-on models for the Microsoft Flight Simulator game series.
Their current offerings are several versions of the X-15, a high-altitude experimental rocket plane from the 1950s and 60s. The X-15 model is very highly detailed, both from inside the cockpit to its sleek [...]
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| Canadian Gaming Record Day! |
| 2008-03-09 09:50:17 |
I’m passing on the following for Shannon of MDG Associates:
Guinness World Records is releasing the first annual Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008!
The Guinness World Records: Gamers’ Edition 2008 is not just a collection of scores - this job has been left to the experts in scores and times - Twin Galaxies. While TG supplied [...]
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| Bring back jPod! |
| 2008-03-08 15:44:15 |
jPod is a one hour comedic television show that is broadcast on the CBC. It’s based on best-selling author Douglas Coupland’s book of the same name. jPod is a funny, quirky, intelligent show that chronicles the lives of Ethan Jarlewski and his co-workers at the fictional Vancouver-based video games company Neotronic Arts. Episodic themes include [...]
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| 3 Day LAN Party! |
| 2008-03-06 22:31:57 |
There’s a 3 day LAN party being held in Montréal from March 14-16. It will be at the École de Technologie Supérieure, and will host official tournaments for games like Call of Duty 4, Counter-Strike, NHL 2008, DDR, Guitar Hero, and many more.
Registration is limited to 600 people at a cost of $45 per person, [...]
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| Greg Bick RIP |
| 2008-03-03 14:58:49 |
Greg Bick of Rockstar Toronto, a former co-worker of mine, passed away on March 1st. He was 44 and suffered an unexpected fatal heart attack. He leaves behind a wife and two small children.
Greg’s game development credits included Quarantine, Dark Colony, Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, and most recently The Warriors where he was Creative Director.
Even [...]
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| New Directory Listing: Snappy Games |
| 2008-03-02 11:35:34 |
Here’s yet another Vancouver based video games company; Snappy Games. What’s in the Vancouver water? There seem to be a lot of creative talent over there. I don’t know but it’s great for the industry.
Anyhow, Dean, Lead Artist from Snappy gave me the scoop: Snappy Games is an agile game boutique dedicated to creating a [...]
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| New Directory Listing: Audiokinetic |
| 2008-03-02 10:40:37 |
Audiokinetic is a Montreal-based middleware company, focused on audio tools for PC, XBox360, PS3 and Wii. They’ve got a few high-profile clients (including well known companies like Pandemic, Bioware, and Silicon Knights) and some very interesting titles coming up using their technology.
I haven’t researched it enough to be certain, but it seems that [...]
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| New Directory Listing: 31337 Recruiters |
| 2008-03-02 10:23:20 |
Jared from 31337 Recruiters sent me an email about his company. 31337 Recruiters is a Vancouver, BC based recruitment agency that specializes only in video game jobs.
I think this is a great idea. Although there are existing webs sites that deal exclusively with listing video game industry jobs, 31337 has a much more local [...]
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| Site unavailable |
| 2008-03-01 17:13:41 |
Today I noticed that candevs.ca has been unavailable on and off throughout the day. At times I haven’t been able to access it neither through a web browser, nor through FTP. I have contacted the hosting company, and hopefully this problem will be fixed.
I’m sure it’s just a minor glitch and not a DOS attack [...]
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| Email forwarding problems |
| 2008-03-01 12:23:55 |
I’ve just noticed that I’ve been having problems with email being sent to info@candevs.ca lately. The problem is that email hasn’t been forwarding to one of my personal email accounts; the one in question is a Rogers account. I think the email has been tagged as spam and is being deleted somewhere along the line. So [...]
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| The Playdium Store |
| 2008-02-25 21:16:01 |
Driving home from work on the 401 I drive past a new store called The Playdium Store. The Playdium name has been attached to a couple of big video game arcades in and around Toronto (even Sega was attached to the Playdium name at one point).
With varying levels of success, it seems that Playdium has [...]
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| Family Day and private MMO servers |
| 2008-02-18 13:24:40 |
Today for the first time ever it is Family Day in Ontario - and most people get the day off. I know that for some, this extra holiday means more gaming time.
Over the last week or so I’ve been researching private MMORPG servers. These are servers essentially run by fans, that host commercial MMO games such [...]
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| 2007 ELAN Awards February 15, 2008 |
| 2008-02-13 13:29:40 |
The 2nd annual Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA) will be held at the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts this Friday February 15.
The ‘Elans’ recognize video game development & publishing, and animation made publicly available from July 1, 2006 to December 31, 2007. Originally the awards were going to be held [...]
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| The Silicon Knights suing Epic story |
| 2008-02-06 09:02:20 |
Okay, call me ignorant but I had no idea that St.Catherines, Ontario based Silicon Knights was suing Epic over the Unreal 3 engine. The original news story can be found here.
Anyway, this first started in July of 2007, and it’s basically SK (who licensed the Unreal 3 engine from Epic) saying that Epic delivered a [...]
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