The Family Guy Free-to-play Online game is being developed by Roadhouse Interactive in Vancouver. Gamezebo has posted an interview with the company co-founder, Ian Verchere. He talks about his experiences with the game industry and how Family Guy’s “MMLOL” gameplay will work.

…Family Guy Online is the first “MMLOL,” and I think, in order to deliver major laugh out loud experiences, the action format definitely made the most sense. And it gives us the opportunity to deliver the notion that this is going to be a funny game. You have the characters in the show standing around and telling you to go and do silly stuff.

If you’ve got a game that sends you to get a wolf’s skin that you can trade for a fire rune or whatever, that’s fun. But if you have a game like Family Guy Online that sends you on a quest to find something…naughty so you can do something naughtier with it, that’s kind of fun, too. It helps the game feel like the show.

Source: Gamezebo

IUGO Mobile Entertainment, the Vancouver studio behind Daisy Mae’s Alien Buffet and Lil’ Pirates, has just announced a partnership with Gree, a mobile game conglomerate based in Tokyo. According to the Press release, Gree is particularly interested in IUGO’s proprietary technologies, the IUGO Games Library, IRender 3D Engine, and IUGO Mesh Social Game Engine. Gree is a massive company, with subsidiaries in London, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, and Beijing. Whether Gree will buy IUGO outright remains to be seen.

Source: IT Business.ca.

It was a full house at the Canadian Video Game Awards last Saturday where the very best examples of Canadian video game production were honoured. Deus Ex: The Human Revolution and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP biggest hardware haul of the show, with five awards each. It was a stroke of genius to promote the CVA’s along with FanExpo Vancouver, bringing an unprecedented amount of publicity. As time goes on, we’ll be able to showcase the unique talent that Canada brings to the video game industry. The Canadian Video game Awards will be televised on Citytv on April 28, 2012 at 8:00 pm and G4 Canada on April 28 & 29, 2012.

Winners of the 2012 Canadian Videogame Awards

Game of the year
FIFA Soccer 12 (EA Canada for EA Sports)

Console game
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal for Square Enix)

Game on the go
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capybara Games)

Downloadable game
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capybara Games)

Social/casual game
Margaritaville Online (Exploding Barrel Games for THQ)

Indie game
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capybara Games)

Audio
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal for Square Enix)

Original music
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capybara Games)

Game design
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal for Square Enix)

Technology
Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 (Ubisoft Montreal)

Visual arts
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft Montreal)

Writing
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal for Square Enix)

New character
Adam Jensen from Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal for Square Enix)

Innovation
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capybara Games)

Future Shop Gamer’s Choice Award
NHL 12 (EA Canada for EA Sports)

Source: The Straight.com

Video Games Live has finally acknowledged that Canadians love their symphony as much as their video games, and so they are adding a host of new Canadian Tour dates! The Concert comes to the Orpheum in Vancouver on November 6, 2012. Tickets are set to go on sale April 25. Check out the Video Games Live Website for more tour dates.

Source:Joystiq