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As the name would suggest, midcore games fall somewhere in the middle of the casual to hardcore spectrum. The remaining criteria for what makes a game midcore aren't widely agreed upon. "I think we'll go from casual to midcore to core to hardcore to ultra-hardcore. " "Midcore has been driven by the emergence of tablet," Hursthouse told Polygon. Shannon Drake's Blog - PR Pro Tips: Tradeshows And Conventions. Top Girl, The Game Where Makeovers Are Mandatory and Being Hot Is Everything. When I was ten years old, a company called Purple Moon (in keeping with the rule that any company with a female target audience needs to work in a reference to the moon at some point) had just developed a series of computer games for preteen girls.
They were simple story games set in middle schools and summer camps, where self-discovery and the perils of attempting to be popular were major plot points. When I saw their ads in Nickelodeon Magazine, despite my devotion to King’s Quest and Oregon Trail, I knew I wanted to play. Theirs sounded different than the girl-oriented games I had played before: my cousin’s Barbie Makeover game was made for girls, sure, but putting eyeshadow on a Barbie model was about exciting as paint-by-number.
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Over the past two years, Canada's gaming industry has expanded 11 per cent annually and is forecasted to grow 17 per cent in each of the next two years. Executives from the Ontario Technology Corridor are at GamesCom in Germany to demonstrate the province's "winning combination" of talent and tax credits. Canada is one of the world's top three game producing nations. "Ontario continues to offer the talent and the financial incentitves that make this region such a strong part of the digital entertainment industry," says Larry MacKinnon, Director of Business Development for Technology in London Ontario and member of the Ontario Technology Corridor.
On July 19, 2011, Arkadium Inc. opened a Toronto, Ontario, office to focus on mobile gaming titles. Gameloft Inc. has started hiring 205 people for a new Toronto office that will be a state-of-the-art gaming studio.