From IndustryGamers:
Jack Friedman, the founder of video game publisher THQ and co-founder of Jakks Pacific, was 70 years old. Mr. Friedman spent 50 years in the gaming and industry, eventually investing $1 million dollars to start THQ Inc. in Calabasas, California. After working out several successful licensing deals with WWE, Disney/Pixar and Games Workshop, he [...]

From Gamasutra:
Ubisoft’s creative director Clint Hocking, who’s shipped games include Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Far Cry 2, announced that he’s leaving the company after spending nine years with its Montreal studio.
Hocking did not specify whether he already has plans to join another developer or whether he intends to continue working in the [...]

[ May 11, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] From IGDA Montreal: When: Tuesday, May 11th @ 7:00pm What: IGDA-Montreal Presentation Night Where: The SAT, 1195 St.Laurent Why: Kellee Santiago on prototyping [...]

[ May 5, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] From Gamasutra: With seven nominations, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed leads the upcoming Canadian Video Game Awards, an event set for May 5 in Vancouver. Taking place just prior to the Game Developers’ Conference Canada, also in Vancouver, the event will feature a performance from Video Games Live, and [...]

[ May 28, 2010; 10:00 am; ] From IGDA Montreal: The 2010 Canadian Games Studies Association annual conference will be held at Concordia University in Montreal this year from May 28-29, in conjunction with the Canadian Congress of the Social Sciences & Humanities. This year, the theme for the Congress is "Le savoir branché/Connected understandings". Since its inception in [...]

[ May 6, 2010 9:00 am to May 7, 2010 6:00 pm. ] From Gamasutra: Think Services’ Game Developers Conference Canada will be returning for its second year this May, offering lectures and networking opportunities focused on the burgeoning Canadian development scene. Registration is now open for the event at the official GDC Canada website. The event will [...]