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on Thu, June 17, 2010 10:00 AM
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E3 is dominated by console games. But a new online gaming service named Onlive may change not only how people game, but whether they ever buy another console system.
The idea behind Onlive is simple; serve games from the cloud to the gamer, no console required. The actual execution is another...
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on Wed, June 16, 2010 5:40 AM
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Sony has had its share of troubles over the last year or so, ranging from sagging sales to being upstaged at last year’s E3 by Project Natal (now known as Kinect.) But you’d never know it at their press conference, which was a rousing two hours of whooping and cheering...
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on Tue, June 15, 2010 7:02 AM
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It’s Christmas in June for gamers, as the annual E3 Expo ramps up and announcements come pouring in about the software and hardware due to arrive over the next year. I was able to attend the Electronic Arts press conference yesterday, and while the action staples like the new, Afghanistan...
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on Thu, June 3, 2010 2:49 PM
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Wind Mobile launched their Vancouver location at the foot of the trendy Yaletown neighbourhood today at an event punctuated by a crowd of both media and consumers eager to try out Canada’s wireless challenger to the mobile Big Four.
Wind CEO Ken Campbell was on hand for the opening and praised...
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on Wed, May 12, 2010 1:51 PM
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Vancouver-based Canpages (recently acquired by the Yellow Pages Group) has just announced that the winner of their API contest is none other than Moodfood, an iPhone app designed by Windsor based startup Red Piston.
Moodfood lets users input the color they associated with their current mood, then leverages the iPhone’s location aware...
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on Thu, May 6, 2010 11:43 AM
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David Whatley, President of Critical Thought Games, implored indie developers attending his “From Zero to Time Magazine: App Success” that if they want to make a “big pile of money,” this was the session to listen to. Whatley developed the runaway hit "Geodefense" for the iPhone, and explained to developers...
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on Thu, May 6, 2010 10:13 AM
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Farmville and Mafia Wars have consumed the waking hours of many, many Facebook users, and in the process made Zynga a lot of money with 27 million people playing their games and trading virtual goods for real cash. Bill Mooney of Zynga presented “Building Social Games: Gaming at the Speed...
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on Wed, May 5, 2010 10:29 PM
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The Canadian Videogame Awards kicked off their inaugural ceremony last night in high style with the complete history of pixelated awesomeness encapsulated within ten minutes by Video Games Live, a symphonic rendition of game music from the past three decades.And the enthusiasm didn't wane as tr awards were handed out...
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on Sat, April 10, 2010 2:34 PM
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There’s nothing better than a little zombie slaughter, and if you can kill zombies in a mall setting using practically anything at hand to dispatch the vengeful undead, so much the better. Dead Rising brought fun and violence to a new level, and for the sequel Vancouver-based Blue Castle Games...
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on Sat, April 10, 2010 11:44 AM
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Mass Effect 2 is one of the most widely praised games of 2010, not just for its gameplay but also for its amazing cinematics. Armando Troisi, the lead cinematic designer for Bioware, explained to the audience at the Game Design Expo in Vancouver how.
Troisi said the agenda of any cinematic...
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