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Kinect for Xbox 360: on display in Toronto and soon Montreal

If you’ve been hearing about Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360, but haven’t yet had a chance to see it in person, you can get an early hands on right now, as long as you’re in Toronto.  To help promote the launch of the full body interface, Microsoft has leased a storefront and filled 2 storeys with Kinectified Xbox 360s, to give the public a chance to go hands on, as it were. Covering 2 floors, there’s a variety of playable demos, including Kinect Sports from Rare, Your Shape: Fitness…

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Public Mobile on the air in Toronto

It’s been a couple of years after the Canadian wireless spectrum auction, and the floodgates have really started to open up, at least in Canada’s most populous city.  Public Mobile is the latest new entrant in the wireless carrier race to go live with their service.  Unlike other newcomers like Wind Mobile and Mobilicity, there’s no data plans to be seen, but if all you want is talk and text, they offer some compelling plans. Public Mobile started with a $40 unlimited talk and text plan, which allowed you to…

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Warner Interactive coming to Montréal

According to a report from Game Focus, it looks like Montreal can add a new game studio to its roster.  Warner Brothers Interactive announced that they will be opening  a new studio that will focus on making games based on DC Comics licenses. It’s not surprising, given the initiatives that various provinces and the Canadian federal government have been using to lure studios over the past few years. The new studio, to be christened WB Games Montreal, and plans on a staff of over 300, headed up by current Warner…

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