As per the PlayStation Blog, and mentioned by Peter Dillie earlier: PSN will see “adjustments” to Canadian pricing starting this Thursday, May 1, in order to bring them into parity with the strong dollar. I’m drinking a fifth of Canadian Club in celebration as we speak. Of course, I was drinking it before I read [...]
According to GamesIndustry.biz, the Xbox Live Video Marketplace is finally available in Canada (and some European countries) on December 11th. XBLVM launched a year ago in the U.S. On the one hand, I really like the idea of downloading individual videos over the web. iTunes still hasn’t gotten their shit together up here so Microsoft [...]
Because, at $70 CAD to import one from Play-Asia, I’m thinking that rumble can wait. We’ve got games out now, and others with patches coming, that already support the rumble feature on PS3. The only reason I can think of for the delay in North America (delays! anger!) is that Sony wants to clear out [...]
Like a great slavering, ravenous beast comprised of syrup and softwood, Canada continues to consume gigantic amounts of pixelated entertainment at an ever-increasing pace. And this in the middle of the driest time of the year… here are the July NPD figures from NeoGaf: Canadian VG industry sales continue their blistering sales pace. Sales for [...]
Actually they want French-everything, but that’s hardly news: The Quebec government is close to finalizing a deal with the Entertainment Software Association of Canada to have all games sold in Quebec translated into French, The Canadian Press has learned. “The deal will be announced very shortly,” said Nathalie Gelinas, a spokeswoman for Culture and Communications [...]
