High-tech opening generates excitement

Barely half a year ago, much of the space on the second and third floors at One St. Paul St. was empty.

It now houses millions of dollars worth of high-tech equipment designed to propel St. Catharines and Niagara to the forefront of the burgeoning digital media sector.

The Generator at one — the name given to the new facility inside Niagara Interactive Media Generator (nGen) — had its grand opening Friday.

Big Boost for nGen - Three new tenants

Students at Brock University and Niagara College will have access to some of the same technology used on the movie Avatar, as their schools move programs into nGen's offices.

The Niagara Interactive Media Generator is celebrating the grand opening of its state-of-the-art digital media facility later this week, coinciding with the welcoming of three new tenants — Brock, Niagara College and the company 211 Interactive.

Intellectual Property Development Fund

The IP Development Fund assists Ontario corporations by providing a refund of 30% of prior costs incurred in direct support of eligible early stage development activities to bring screen-based content properties closer to production or market ready stage.

$26.2. million for downtown arts school

Brock University gets funding from province

High-tech companies land federal cash

St. Catharines MPRick Dykstra announced Monday morning that Ottawa will give Convergent Telecom $185,250 through the government's community adjustment fund, while Shark Marine Technologies Inc. will get $61,250.

Video game company gets $4-million boost

Local company Silicon Knights is getting nearly $4 million in federal money to create a new video game, leaving community leaders gushing the region is one step closing to being a gaming capital.

nGen joins digital media network

St. Catharines-based nGen is hoping a new digital network will help rev up its incubating power.

CMF Doubles Interactive Funding To $27M

The Canada Media Fund is a not-for-profit corporation that delivers $350M in funding annually. Through the Experimental Stream, the CMF will encourage the development of leading-edge, interactive, digital media content and software applications. Through the Convergent Stream, the CMF will support the creation of innovative, convergent television and digital media content.

Canadian Digital Media Network adds Niagara Organization nGen to Growing Network

The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) announced today that the Niagara Interactive Media Generator (nGen) has joined the CDMN network. The CDMN is working to connect organizations such as nGen in a nationwide network to collaborate and share digital media research, technology development and commercialization expertise.

High school student wins nGen competition

A Thorold High School student has won nGen’s first video game pitch competition, which was judged by fourth year Interactive Arts and Science students from Brock.

Thorold student wins video game contest

Inspired by the frenetic combat of fighting games like Mortal Combat and Street Fighter, 16-year-old Matthew Webb dreams of digital fisticuffs.

His video-game idea, to pair characters drawn from everyday life to duke it out, from baseball players to criminals, won a contest hosted by Brock University's interactive arts and science program and nGen, Niagara's new-media incubator.