Ontario’s Home for Video Games and Interactive Entertainment

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This Week in Ontario Video Games & XR – February 22, 2025
Tags: Balatro, Canada, Canadian Game Awards, Canadian Games, CGA, CGAs, Continue, Digital Extremes, Dragon Age, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Eh! Game Expo, event, Game Business Masterclass, Game Pill, games, Hangry, Humberly Gonzalez, indie dev, indie developers, Indie Super Boost, Interactive Ontario, ISB, Jason Della Rocca, London, Made in Ontario, Ontario, Star Wars Outlaws, TennoCon, TennoCon 2025, This Week, Ubisoft Toronto, video games, VR, Warframe, Warframe: Techrot Encore, XR
Game Pill's Hangry shows off gameplay, Interactive Ontario opens up new membership, Digital Extremes' TennoCon sells out, and Ubisoft Toronto wins at 2025 Canadian Game Awards!
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Digital Extremes and the Rise of Ontario’s Video Game Industry: A Conversation with Michael Schmalz
Tags: BioShock 2, Canada, Dark Sector, Digital Extremes, Epic, Epic Games, Epic Pinball, game developer, interview, James Schmalz, London, Michael Schmalz, OMDC, Ontario, Ontario Creates, Riverbond, Star Trek, TennoCon, The Darkness II, The Lodgge, Toronto, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Warframe, Waterloo
On the eve of TennoCon 2024, The Lodgge chats with Michael Schmalz, former president of London-based Digital Extremes, to reflect on his time in the industry, the evolution of game development in Ontario, and how his work helped move the Ontario video games and XR sector forward.
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