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Tired of games? Create your own

Tired of games? Create your own

If the number of Java programmers making and marketing small format online strategy games is any indication, there’s a lot of talent out there that remains virtually untapped by the games industry.
Editorial

Editorial

It used to be easy to make ice, you just set out some water and waited for the temperature to get below 32 F. Of course, it’s not that simple anymore; now it has to get below 0 C.
Kirby Brown: A Down East heart in the Coast Mountains

Kirby Brown: A Down East heart in the Coast Mountains

"I grew up deeply embedded in tourism," says Kirby Brown, Whistler-Blackcomb’s Human Resources boss. Indeed. When you live in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and your dad manages the historic Bluenose II schooner, your life is tourism.
Scott Carrell

Scott Carrell

Don’t get caught up marketing Walkmans when everybody is buying iPods.
Ownership has its rewards

Ownership has its rewards

Perhaps the most important point of the $2.8 billion deal that will see Fortress Investment Group acquire Whistler-Blackcomb’s parent is that Intrawest will become a private company.
Canada's game industry awards itself

Canada's game industry awards itself

With a growing number of high-end studios springing up in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada’s video game and animation industry has officially come into its own.
New investors, bears and berries, Creekside bubbles

New investors, bears and berries, Creekside bubbles

Invest in your community To the new investors and stakeholders of this wonderful mountain town: I thank you for your investment and support of our resort lifestyle.
Passing the torch

Passing the torch

It was an incredible performance. For 11 years, Doug Perry acted as ringmaster for one of the boldest experiments in mountain resort entertainment.
Defining moments

Defining moments

Decima Research announced this week that Bryan Adams’s 1984 hit song Summer of ’69 is Canada’s top driving song, as determined by a poll of Canadians interested in driving songs.
World is flat again

World is flat again

Having recently purchased a WHA home, my wife and I are in the process of buying furniture to fill it – right now we have next to nothing. That shopping list includes some necessary home electronics.