Great Canadian Appathon Squared Winners Take Home Game-Changing $50,000 in Cash and Prizes
Toronto, Canada, November 06, 2011 –(PR.com)– Over the weekend of September 30th, more than 400 college and university students competed in the Great Canadian Appathon Squared to create a mobile game in under 48 hours. At the Grand Finale sponsored by KPMG on November 2nd the top three teams showed off the games they developed to a panel of judges. Montreal’s team “Drop Table,” who created the game “Trace Racer” took home the top prize of $25,000 and four Unity Pro 3.x licenses.
Presented by XMG Studio and the National Post the Great Canadian Appathon Squared also awarded $10,000 to the second place team “Resistor 5” for their game “Ludicrous Archery.” Another 10 winners were each awarded $1,000 for a variety of category prizes including “Best Windows Phone 7 Game” sponsored by Microsoft, “Best Technical Game Play” sponsored by Telus and “Best Power & Performance Game” sponsored by NOS Energy Drinks. Read More
Play N Trade to Host Midnight Release for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Biggest Game Release of the Year
San Clemente, CA, November 05, 2011 –(PR.com)– Play N Trade franchise stores are hosting midnight releases all over the nation and Canada. There will be a special sneak preview of the game at 10PM before the release time at 12:01AM
On November 8th, Activision is releasing the highly anticipated Modern Warfare 3 which is shaping up to surpass the record set by Activision’s Black Ops (released last year). Black Ops currently holds the record for the biggest entertainment launch of all time selling 5.6 million copies on its first day of release. Read More
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