Festival Arcadia Nov. 7-9 2008 Montreal

Information from the Festival Arcadia web site:

Festival Arcadia is for all video game enthusiasts. It is a one-of-a-kind event – a fantasy filled universe. The event is an interactive experience with multimedia projections that stimulates the senses and emotions. The Arcadia Festival brings together under one roof the most important video game editors and developers. It is designed for players of all ages and has multiple game areas. It is a unique environment with an infinite amount of possibilities. Not only can you play and experience the latest video games, the Arcadia Festival also stages an exceptional cultural program that includes top musical bands, DJs and VJs, who are renowned internationally as well as within the video game industry.

The festival is for everybody, man, woman, teenagers, experienced as well as beginner gamers. The festival is designed for the general public and for industry professionals who are interested in discovering, the latest and ground-breaking gaming technologies.

The Montreal Arcadia Festival is the first and one-of-a-kind public event that is dedicated to the video gaming industry in Canada.

For full details please visit the Festival Arcadia web site.

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Toronto Gaming Expo 2008

The Toronto Gaming Expo will be held from August 22 to 24. It is part of the annual Toronto Fan Expo which features comic book, anime, science fiction, and horror themed exhibits, guests, and vendors.

Billed as the largest gaming event in Canada, the Gaming Expo will be having cash prize tournaments for console games such as Gears of War, Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, and Halo 3. This is all part of Major League Gaming’s Pro Circuit.

In addition to video games, the Gaming Expo includes tabletop, role-playing, and collectible card game exhibits and tournaments.

For full details visit the Gaming Expo 2008 site.

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Canadian Gaming Record Day!

 

I’m passing on the following for Shannon of MDG Associates:

Guinness World Records is releasing the first annual Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2008!

The Guinness World Records: Gamers’ Edition 2008 is not just a collection of scores – this job has been left to the experts in scores and times – Twin Galaxies. While TG supplied the scores, Guinness World Records amassed a team of video game experts to focus on all the other record-breaking aspects of gaming, such as:

• Longest prison sentence for playing a video game – In September 2002, the UK’s Faiz Chopdat was jailed for four months for playing Tetris on his mobile phone on a plane. Nobody has been jailed longer for playing a video game

• Largest virtual beer festival – Once a year the warring factions of the Horde and the Alliance put down their arms and celebrate “Brewfest”; the world’s largest virtual beer festival.

On March 11, 2008, Guinness World Records is calling on all Canadian gamers to visit the new Gamer’s Edition website to register their record attempts for Canadian Gaming Record Day! Maybe your name will be included in next year’s edition!

Visit http://gamers.guinnessworldrecords.com on March 11, 2008 to register your record attempts. Guinness World Records HQ will be on hand that day to monitor the number of entries! Let’s set a record, Canada!

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