File this one under “really??” http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090402/media_nm/us_disney_kaboose Yahoo reports that the Walt Disney Company – you know, that Walt Disney Company … the one with the mouse ears and such – just bought Kaboose for 18.4 million dollars. You know – that Kaboose … the one with uh … … the one with … i dunno? [...] Keep Reading

i’m just getting back from IN09, the re-branded interactive ontario new media conference formerly known as ICE, and to be known in the future simply as I (short “I” sound, like the one you make when you’re cleaning out your fridge for the first time in six months, and some of what used to be [...] Keep Reading

Jean-Francois Levesque, a fellow IGDA (Interspatial Glockenspiel Defamation Alliance) LinkedIn member, recently started a new job board for Game Industry Grunts. These are entry level people, who are frustrated that the game industry is notoriously tough to break into because every position requires a few years’ experience, or credits on a published title. If only. [...] Keep Reading

i tore myself away from long development hours on codename: Fingerprints to attend a pre-Game Developers’ Conference social mixer last night. It was thrown by the OMDC (Ontario Muskrat Defense Consortium), who dole out the government cash for approved media projects. The event was for companies headed to the conference in San Francisco at the [...] Keep Reading

The OMDC (Ontario Media Disco Cavaliers) have just announced this year’s two Interactive Digital Media Fund funding rounds. New this year is a broadened provision for fee-for-service projects between digital and traditional media (ie a website based on a movie, or a cell phone game based on a magazine … ugh), and a new level [...] Keep Reading