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Quick but great news of the day: Venturebeat reports Playerize has closed its series A, getting $1m from Real Ventures, Rho Ventures, as well as invidual investors such as Mike Edwards of Initio Group, David Chamandy of Machkor, Martin-Luc Archambault of Bolidea, Dan Robichaud, and Jason Bailey. It’s a diverse group of investors, with investors [...]

First AR RTS game

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Last friday, 30 to 40 people gathered at engineering school ETS with the goal of producing a game in just one weekend. It was nice to see the organizing team Conjure inviting designers, writers and artists for the weekend, plus also attendees from outside Montréal. That’s how you get pioneering ideas! The event is part [...]

A group of motivated students from ETS (École de Technologie Supérieure) is organizing this weekend the Global Game Jam, challenging teams to create a full video game in just 3 days. The format, deadline, pressure, as well as the focus on new ideas and innovation remind me a lot of Blitzweekend and ulteriour startup weekend [...]

Louis Cleroux (@itradelive), an entrepreneur who’s been developing iPhone and iPad application for the past year, has a new video games project for the iPad. Here’s a proof of concept: What’s stunning about this new project is that he’s done a working iPad game in less than 2 weeks, and it also uses the Unreal [...]

For Montreal video games indies, there are 3 interesting events this month for designers and developers alike: Ludum Dare is a marathon to produce a game in just under one weekend. It running now, since Friday evening. This announcement is of course a bit late to participate, but you still have time to check out [...]

Yesterday, coworking space Station-C featured ARMTL’s second meetup, with 15 or so developers, designers and entrepreneurs discussing augmented reality’s potential. The talks covered available hardware on the market, mainly mobile devices, and also discussed available image recognition and 3D software on the market. There were lots of interaction, with a few fun moments where we [...]

The CBC reports that Montréal-based Cirque du Soleil and acclaimed canadian director James Cameron are partnering for theatrical projects, with a first movie underway, directed by Shrek’s director. James Cameron, who instigated the 3D development behind Avatar, will be bringing his technology expertise as an executive producer. As most of you knows, the Cirque du [...]