Video Games Featuring a Recognizable British Columbia

Comics Gaming Magazine explored the video game landscape for games set in Canadian locations. They wanted to find the best video games that feature Canada, so you can explore our homeland with video games that have adapted or reimagined the…
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Fans in Northern B.C. Make Northern FanCon 2023 a Success

Northern FanCon is a celebration of film, books, animation, entertainment and more. It's an opportunity for fans interested in pop culture to gather and celebrate fandom together. Norm Coyne, Executive Director of Northern FanCon speaks about…
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Update: 2023 Canadian Game Awards Nominees and Winners

The Canadian Game Awards (CGA) and Canadian Indie Game Awards (CIGA) returned in 2023 celebrating the many games created in B.C. and beyond. The awards highlight the contributions of the growing Canadian Gaming industry celebrating Canada’s…
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2023 Creative Industries Week Wrap-Up + World Creativity and Innovation Day

The United Nations designated 21 April as World Creativity and Innovation Day to raise the awareness of the role of creativity and innovation in all aspects of human development.  The creative economy builds on the interplay between human…

Creative Industries Week 2023: Celebrating Creative Technology

Thursday April 20, 2023 Day four of Creative Industries Week at the legislature celebrates creative technology, interactive and digital media, bringing industry associations, businesses, studios, artists, key stakeholders, and creators…

B.C.’s Animal Logic and SkyBox Labs make Maclean’s Power List 2023

The Mclean's Power List 2023 recognizes the top 100 Canadians who are shaping the country. It's a cohort of changemakers whose ideas and inventions are forging new industries and reinventing old ones. In 2023 Mclean's includes two of B.C.'s…
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Whipped Cream “The Dark” VR Experience World Premiere at SXSW

"The Dark" featuring Monstercat artists Whipped Cream, Jasiah & Crimson Child, presents a new VR experience that blends electronic and opera music in an emotion-oriented story about a toxic relationship. Captured volumetrically at The Departure…

Trickfilm Real-Time Animation Festival

Trickfilm Entertainment Inc. is thrilled to announce the launch of the World’s first real-time animation festival, a celebration of animated films created and broadcast using EPIC Games' Unreal Engine. Submissions for the festival open on…
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So You’ve Completed an Animated Short, Now What?

Now in its third run, the ACE (Animation Career EXCELerator) Program aims to boost women into higher level positions within the animation industry throughout Canada. ACE offers, through the leadership of Rose-Ann Tisserand and Tracey Mack, financial…

Vancouver’s Blackbird Interactive makes The New Yorker’s Best Video Games List of the Year for Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent studio – behind such games as Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and the upcoming Homeworld 3 and…