Canada’s University of Calgary in Alberta has announced that the campus will open a research-based video game library next year. To be known as Calgary’s Interactive Digital Media Collection, is claiming to be “the largest collection of video games for academic studies in the nation.” Students will be able to check out software ranging from […]
Silicon Knights, developer of the popular Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and the not-so-popular Too Human, has just received a major check from their native Canadian government. The $4 million Canadian dollars ($3.78 USD) was paid in order to help fund the developer’s new, unrevealed, project, which is set for a two to five year development […]
Thanks to generous tax incentives and a federal appreciation for keeping game developers local, the Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESCA) has claimed the Great White North as the third largest game development-dense country in the world. Many attribute this usurpation of the UK to a more moderate view of the games industry, as countries […]