IO Members thrive thanks to Ontario's gaming advantage GamesCom 2011 -- Despite various global economic challenges, the digital media and video game industries continue to thrive. People like to play games -- especially in tough times. Over the past two years, Canada's gaming industry has expanded 11 per cent annually and is forecasted to grow 17 per cent in each of the next two years. Executives from the Ontario Technology Corridor are at GamesCom to demonstrate the province's "winning combination" of talent and tax credits. Canada is one of the world's top three game producing nations.

Shaftesbury Films is going to Australia ABC Children's TV today announced Resistance, its biggest budget children's live action series, will be the first production to use the South Australia Film Corporation's new facilities in Adelaide.

Resistance is a 26 x 30min series costing $14 million. It is a co-production between Australia's Persistence Productions and Canada's Shaftesbury Films. It will screen on ABC3 in late 2012 and in YTV Canada.

'Biophilia' co-creator Scott Snibbe to deliver keynote at X-Summit We are delighted to welcome Scott Snibbe as a keynote speaker at X-Summit, occurring Oct. 25-26 in Toronto! Scott Snibbe is a media artist, filmmaker and researcher in interactivity. Most recently, he collaborated with singer Bjork to create Biophilia, the world's first-ever app album, as a means of monetizing art without compromising creativity.

Smiley Guy Studios' Interactive Animated Comedy "View U" Takes the Prize My Damn Channel, a leading entertainment studio and distributor of premium videos by top talent, today announced Smiley Guy Studios' animated comedy series "View U" has won a development deal after a pitch competition at the recent Just For Laughs Comedy Conference. The Conference is a 3-day event held during the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Canada, which is now the world's largest and most prestigious comedy event welcoming close to 2 million people each summer.

Machinima.com CEO to speak at X-Summit We have just announced another wave of featured speakers who will be presenting at X-Summit on October 25 & 26 in Toronto - including Machinima.com CEO Allen DeBevoise!

PadWorx Digital Media Celebrates Anniversary with Dracula & Scrooge PadWorx Digital Media, Inc., a leading developer of interactive, immersive book/apps for tablet devices just is celebrating it's one year anniversary by making both of its App of the Week titles, 'Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition' and 'A Christmas Carol for iPad' available for one week for just .99 cents.

Canadian Game Development Talent Awards Open for Nominations Montreal, August 1st, 2011 - Alliance numerique (AN), in collaboration with the Canadian Interactive Alliance (CIAIC) is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination process for the Canadian Game Development Talent Awards. The Canadian Game Development Talent Awards has seven distinct categories that recognize the amazing creativity and expertise that exists within the Canadian game development community.

The Big Table of Film and Video Incentives in Canada From PricewaterhouseCoopers

Canadian film and television productions now account for about $5 billion in annual revenue and employ more than 117,000 people (CAVCO, 2010).1 The Canadian industry continues to grow with the support of federal, provincial and territorial governments, which encourage investment by domestic and foreign producers through incentives that help offset the cost of productions in Canadian locations. The big table is your guide to these incentives.

Motives in Movement Make a Move to Toronto From Village Gamer

Motives in Movement, the dramatic-content consultancy and providers of the next generation of convergent solutions for animation software developers, has completed its first Proof of Concept with cutting edge French animation company, Dynamixyz. The POC coincides with Motives in Movement founder and Heavy Rain actor Pascal Langlois relocating to Toronto, and he will be attending SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver. Dynamixyz will be in Booth 351.

IO Members nominated for Gemini Awards Today The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced the nominations for the 26th Annual Gemini Awards. Here is a list of IO members who have received nominations. Congratulations to everyone involved!

Canadian Pavilion @ Futurecom 2011 As in previous years, the Consulate General in São Paulo will be participating at Futurecom2011 Congress and Business Trade Show (www.futurecom.com.br), having reserved a space in a privileged position, neighboured by Nokia Systems, Juniper, Tellfree and Telefonica/VIVO. This year, Futurecom has expanded its' scope from "pure communications" to include the IT Arena, Internet Arena and a VAS Pavilion, increasing the exposure to communications related areas, not covered by other events in Brazil.

Apica to Participate in Webinar on Game Development in the Cloud Apica, a leading load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, today announced its participation in a free, interactive gaming webinar along with Amazon Web Services, Couchbase, RightScale and TransGaming Digital Home.

X-Summit Welcomes Gamification Guru Gabe Zichermann to Speaker Lineup We are excited to announce another featured speaker who will be presenting at X-Summit on October 25 & 26 in Toronto - Gabe Zichermann, CEO of Gamification.co and Founder of The Gamification Summit!

DHX Media signs worldwide music publishing administration deal DHX Media, a leading international producer and distributor of mainly children's television programming and interactive content, is pleased to announce that it has concluded a worldwide administration deal for more than 40 titles from DHX Media's extensive library of television and film content with ole, one of the world's largest independent music publishers.

Relive Your Greatest Victories with Cross Fire G4BOX Inc., a North American publisher and distributor of interactive online entertainment media, announced today an update to its free-to-play military shooter, Cross Fire. The free update, which will download automatically when players launch the game, features the new "Chinatown" Team Deathmatch map, two new weapons, and the addition of rewind and fast forward to Cross Fire's popular replay system. To download and play Cross Fire for free, visit http://crossfire.z8games.com.

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