The Ottawa International Game Conference, which showcases the innovations and emerging trends in the Ottawa and Canadian gaming industry, starts on Wednesday, May 29.

On Sunday, May 26, an HTML5 Gaming Workshop will be held in Vancouver.

The event, presented by Vancouver Polyglot {Un}conference, Startup Weekend Vancouver and Microsoft Canada, will show attendees how they can use HTML5 to build games and interactive experiences today. Then they will be shown how they can take those HTML5 games and migrate them to Windows 8 to take advantage of monetization opportunities with 60 million potential users.

I was simultaneously thumb wrestling one-on-one with a bearded business executive and a group of fellow attendees during a keynote at Canada 3.0.

Patrice Désilets, creator of the multi-award-winning videogame Assassin's Creed, was fired from Ubisoft this week.

New York City's Arkadium, developer of the largest library of casual games in the world, this week hired David Elton as general manager of the company's Toronto game development studio.

A report has surfaced suggesting that, following a round of organizational restructuring announced by Electronic Arts, PopCap Vancouver and Quicklime Studios will be closing.

A videogame is helping adults with amblyopia improve their vision.

East met west at the Fourth Annual Canadian Video Game Awards, which were held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on Saturday, April 20.

The future of the video game industry is in a state of flux, and for those in the trenches, some discussion of that future is essential.

The Vancouver Economic Commission, the Visual Effects Society, and the HR Screen Council Board are hosting their 2nd Annual VES Vancouver Career Fair on April 20.

Last year, the VES Vancouver Job Fair hosted 1,200 attendees and 20 exhibitors. For the 2013 edition, they have expanded the space to accommodate over 30 exhibitors and anticipate an even bigger job-seeking crowd.