From Gamasutra:
French publisher Ubisoft has partnered with the Toys for Tots charity to release Giving Rabbids, a Facebook application enabling users to create and send Rabbids-themed digital greeting cards, as well as donate to Toys for Tots.
With the free app, users send an e-card to their Facebook friends with artwork from Ubisoft’s humorous [...]

From Whrrl:
Here’s a cool photo gallery of a MEGA BLOKS factory in action (I think it’s the one in Montreal).
 

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From 1UP (via Connected Consoles and N4G):

In an interview with Japan’s Famitsu magazine this week, Ubisoft executive director Alain Corre dropped some hints that his company is interested in tapping into the Japanese game market more seriously in 2010 and beyond — even floating the idea of creating a Japan-style console RPG sometime in [...]

Companies to Work on Releasing Space Empires and Jagged Alliance for Social Networks
Strategy First, an international digital publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, and Nvinium Games announced a strategic relationship whereby Nvinium will develop and market new versions of Strategy First’s best selling franchises Space Empires and Jagged Alliance for social network platforms. The [...]

From Gamasutra:
THQ has put some long-awaited certainty in its license portfolio as it finally signs a new eight-year, $13.2 million deal deal with wrestling brand WWE.
"This agreement ensures that WWE games will continue to be an important cornerstone of THQ’s annual release schedule for the long term," says THQ president and CEO Brian [...]

From PRNewsWire:
Game Developer Research has compiled the results of its third annual Game Developer Census, tallying game development and publishing companies working in North America, revealing that the United States videogame industry employee count is essentially flat year-over-year, rising slightly from 44,400 to 44,806. More freely available information is available Game Developer Research website: [...]

A few language related articles from CBC.
From CBC, Quebec sees growth in English-speaking population:
The number of English-speaking Quebecers is on the increase for the first time in 30 years due to immigration, along with a slowdown in the outflow of Quebec anglophones.
The number has grown by about 5.5 per cent between the censuses [...]

From Loto-Quebec:
The Government of Québec has authorized Loto-Québec’s Société des loteries vidéo du Québec (SLVQ) subsidiary to acquire video lottery (VLT) terminals and a centralized operation system in order to replace current equipment. The cost of replacing the 12,000 units and operating system is in the order of $265 million. A call for tenders [...]