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Canada Day fireworks in Vancouver...

Canada Day celebrations ended with a bang as fireworks lit up the Metro Vancouver skyline Monday.

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Canada Day in Vancouver

Canada Day celebrations drew crowds on Monday as people braved the heat in order to take part in the various street parties. Take a look.

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Next Xbox a better listener, harmonizes living room gadgets (with video)

After promising for more than a decade that its game console would revolutionize home entertainment, Microsoft Corp. may have finally delivered.

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Video: New Xbox One entertainment console unveiled

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Google Glass at the forefront of wearable-technology trend (with video)

At first glance Phil Wu is just another guy wearing glasses. But take a second look and you realize there’s something missing — lenses.

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This video game image released by Ubisoft shows a scene from "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon." (AP Photo/Ubisoft)

Review: 'Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon' delivers a blast of pure '80s mayhem

Video games came of age in the 1980s, a decade that was also the heyday of cheesy Hollywood action movies. Thirty years later, you don't have to look hard to see the influence of one medium on the other. The ultraviolent power fantasies that seem so corny today — movies like "Rambo," ''Commando" and "The Delta Force" — pretty much provided the template for popular games like "Call of Duty" and "Gears of War."

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Mike Crump, studio manager for Microsoft’s Black Tusk Studios, says the company has a strong commitment to the talent found in Vancouver.

Microsoft bucks video game exodus with a new Vancouver studio

While console video game companies have been shutting their Vancouver studios, a handful of Microsoft game developers have been quietly building a presence in Yaletown. Today they are taking the wraps off the venture, which started with five people and grew to 55 before getting the official go-ahead from Microsoft’s head office to launch as a separate game studio, Black Tusk.

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