Canadian Interactive Alliance | l'Alliance Interactive Canadienne
NPD: Kids’ mobile device usage up and so is their gaming time (GamesIndustry.biz)
On developing for Android: is the fragmentation worth the hassle? (Gamasutra)
How Capybara Games became the “envy of the game development world” (Polygon)
China Mobile could finally bring the iPhone to its 667 million subscribers (GamesIndustry.biz)
Game Pill in development on Almost Naked Animals game (KidScreen)
Starting today, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) will embark on a cross-country Outreach tour to answer questions regarding the changes to the CMF Guidelines for 2012-2013, the 2011-2012 funding results and the application process.
The meetings will be moderated by Nathalie Clermont, CMF director of program management. She will be joined by representatives of the CMF program administrator Telefilm Canada Roxane Girard and Francesca Accinelli for the English market, and Roxane Girard and Dominique Lapierre for the French market. See below for the current tour schedule. [Read more...]
The first annual Ottawa Game Conference (OGC), to be held at the Ottawa Convention Centre on May 29, 2012, announced its speaker lineup yesterday, including keynotes from Gabe Zichermann, author and gamification expert, and Jason Della Rocca, founder of Perimeter Partners and former executive director of the International Game Developers Association.
Combining speakers from Ottawa firms and developers around the world, the conferences’ business and content tracks will explore a variety of topics in gaming trends, including social game design, location-based gaming, vehicle-embedded gaming, multi-screen experience design, web, console, PC, mobile and more. [Read more...]
(TORONTO and OTTAWA, May 3, 2012) The Canadian Interactive Alliance / l’Alliance Interactive Canadienne (CIAIC) is pleased to announce that Statistics Canada has created two new industry codes — Video Game Publishing and Video Game Design and Development Services — which will provide the Government of Canada to have a better facility to create programs and policies.
Up until now, most video game developers were classified as custom software designers and website developers. The CIAIC and the Department of Canadian Heritage have been making proposals for the creation of industry codes for interactive digital media since 2005. [Read more...]
Playing action video games can improve visual attention skills: University of Toronto study (The Toronto Star)
WBIE Montreal announces its first game, Cartoon Universe (BusinessWire)
Ubisoft Toronto: Ontario’s “anchor tenant” of the video games industry? (Financial Post Magazine)
