Hands on, no in

Immersive headsets continue to lift off company drawing boards, in the hopes of powering a new wave of virtual reality in the consumer space — whether it’s the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift, Sony’s Project Morpheus, Microsoft’s Hololens or HTC-Valve’s Vive, to name a few...

Down Down Under

Greens Deputy Leader Scott Ludlam has won support to set Australia’s Senate on a search for our missing computer game development industry. “This inquiry will help establish what the government should be doing to support Australia’s games industry and the...

Animation ambitions

France’s Ankama and France Televisions are moving into production on Ankama’s first TV comedy property “Abraca,” as the Gallic gaming-comic-book icon, best known in TV for its “Wakfu” and “Dofus” series, ups the ante on its animation ambitions. It is also branching...

Mastering animation

From Looney Tunes to Shaun the Sheep, animation has a long history of box-office success. Nowadays, animators are at the heart of the wider film industry, able to transport us into outer space, to the bottom of the ocean or the heart of an inferno. Animation has grown...

Van film rules

Vancouver, also referred to as “Hollywood North,” has long been a magnet for filmmakers and “runaway” Hollywood TV productions seeking financial advantages, diverse locations, a sophisticated technical infrastructure, and a talented workforce. Major studios were...