by Unifor | Jul 25, 2014 | News |
Google has signed a deal to buy game-livestreaming firm Twitch for $1 billion, confirmed sources familiar with the matter. We don’t know everything about this deal, such as when it will be announced and the exact purchase price. We do know that Twitch investors who...
by Unifor | Jul 24, 2014 | News |
Local companies are aiming to capitalize when Vancouver hosts what could be the biggest convention in the city’s history next month. The Siggraph – the curious acronym stands for Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Technologies – digital arts and...
by Unifor | Jul 24, 2014 | News |
People who say that video games will rot your brain are full of themselves. Video games have come a long way from a dot bouncing between two lines. While being good at games like Chess has long been the symbol of intelligence, there are new games that deserve just as...
by Unifor | Jul 22, 2014 | News |
The gaming industry has come a long way. It used to be made up of a couple of passionate programmers sat in their basements coding furiously, hoping to catch the attention of the few companies forward-thinking (or reckless) enough to invest in this newfangled...
by Unifor | Jul 22, 2014 | News |
In the last decade or so, computer generated characters have taken a quantum leap forward in blockbuster cinema. You can probably mark the transition around the time that Yoda went from being a Jim Henson creation to a digitally rendered sprite in Star Wars: Episode...
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