CANADIAN GAMING NEWS
NetEase Games has announced the opening of a new game studio in Canada, named Bad Brain Games, to work on an "ambitious new franchise," which will be a story-driven open-world action-adventure game.
Autumn with the Shiba Inu, the next project from Toronto-based visual novel powerhouse Quill Studios, is coming to Kickstarter this week.
Canadian indie game studio Red Meat Games have released their episodic, narrative-driven audio game Project Dark on Steam and Nintendo Switch.
Achimostawinan Games have released their Indigenous cybernoir detective narrative adventure game Hill Agency: PURITYdecay for Steam and itch.io.
With offices in Vancouver, BC, CD Projekt Red has become one of, if not the first, AAA game studios operating in Canada to offer their employees paid menstrual leave.
PODCAST
We speak to Québécois game dev Dragon Slumber, creator of Tech Support, Aethernaut and other games.
We reveal the winners of our ‘23 Community Awards poll and discuss Drinkbox’s latest teaser for their next project- and more!
This week thousands more game developers join Stephan in the "terminated by evil, stupid people" camp as layoffs hit tons of studios all over Canada and the world. We discuss Sonic as well. Sonic supports Unionizing your Workplace!
Stephan got terminated but that’s okay he just has more time to cover Canadian games now.
FEATURES
Our community spent weeks nominating and the results are in! We have our nominees for Best Ongoing Canadian Game, Most Anticipated Canadian Game and Canadian Game of the Year 2023!
Here are the winners of our 2022 Community Awards Poll, comprised of nominees from our community.
JOBS
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The new studio founded by ex-BioWare devs Humanoid Origin is looking to fill multiple roles.
EVENTS
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Canada’s premier business-to-business video game conference. Over two days, connect with global industry professionals to explore crucial industry trends, develop new and innovative business-building opportunities, and help shape the future of gaming.
Toronto Games Week is a celebration of playable arts and culture! Toronto Games Week 2024 will be on June 13-19 and is a collective coordination of events organized independently by dozens of organizations, creators, curators, and companies.
The Game Discovery Exhibition (GDX) is the largest independent celebration of game dev and games culture in Canada; it showcases talent from Alberta and beyond.
Bloom Digital Media have released a demo for their upcoming visual novel game Long Story 2, which is a sequel to the 2017 game.