Entertainment, Media & Sports

Vancouver in a multiplayer battle to maintain video game dominance

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) has been strengthening its 300-employee Disney Online Studios Canada division in Kelowna, which operates children's virtual reality game Club Penguin.

Great Canadian Gaming Corp and the City of Vancouver have reached an agreement for a two-year extension to the operating agreement for its Hastings Racecourse property on the Pacific National Exhibition grounds.

Japanese social gaming company Gree has announced it will soon open a 10-employee game development studio in downtown Vancouver. Gree has a worldwide network of 230 million users who play the company's free mobile games. B.C.

Organizers of the Rockin' River Music Festival told Business in Vancouver July 17 that they expect this year's festival to be the largest gathering in their four-year history and that they will make a profit for the first time.

B.C. Pavilion Corp. (PavCo) has opened up to Business in Vancouver about continuing problems with BC Place stadium’s new roof.

Vancouver to lose 35 jobs; Toronto to gain approximately 85

Mitchell Press buys Teldon Media Group's printing division

Rockstar Games, makers of videogame Max Payne 3 , will close its 35-person Vancouver office over the next six months and expand in Toronto, the company has announced.

Berkshire Hathaway, Glacier Media and other acquisitive companies seeing positive future and increased value in newspaper assets