Pug Pharm’s Snoget.com has been selected to advance directly to Round 3 of the prestigious New Ventures BC competition.

The NVBC competition takes place over four successive, and increasingly complex, rounds. Competitors are eliminated after each round until only 10 remain in play to win $300,000 in prize packages.

Round 2 consisted of 134 competing companies submitting a five-page response to specific questions about their business ideas. Judges chose Pug Pharm as one of the 16 best ideas to advance to Round 3.

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Pug Pharm wins Vancouver Angel Forum Award

by pugpharmer on May 19, 2010

Pug Pharm Productions is pleased to announce that it has received the 2010 Vancouver Angel Forum’s award for “Best Presentation”.

Selected out of 53 applicant companies, Pug Pharm was one of 15 companies invited to make a full 10-minute presentation in front of a packed auditorium consisting of industry experts, venture capitalists, and angel investors. Pug Pharm also placed third at the event in the category of “Best Pre-Revenue Company.”

Pug Pharm’s presentation featured Snoget.com, an online social discovery platform featuring activities and games that bring social networking to the next level.

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Bocska to speak at Canadian Game Developers Conference

04.11.2010

Pug Pharm President Steve Bocska has been chosen to speak at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in Vancouver, Canada. His session, “Beyond Mafia Wars: The Rise of Next-Generation Social Entertainment,” will examine the next big opportunities emerging in the casual online gaming space and explore how truly social games represent the current low-hanging fruit for [...]

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Snoget Gets… Gifting!

04.03.2010

At long last, Snoget has released v1.0 of integrated item gifting. No longer do you have to keep all of those precious “8 of clubs” to yourself! Send them to your friends, strangers…or your strange friends.
Item gifts can be sent to your in-game friends, or even people without Snoget accounts as an email “e-gift”!
To gift [...]

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Telefilm’s Canada New Media Fund (CNMF) Increases Financial Support For Pug Pharm Productions Inc.

03.28.2010

Pug Pharm Productions has received additional financial support from the Canada New Media Fund (CNMF) administered through Telefilm Canada. The funding provides further evidence of Telefilm’s commitment and support of Pug Pharm’s novel approach to creating a truly novel and unique social networking platform.
The CNMF is a program from Telefilm Canada that provides funding for [...]

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Steve Bocska named to Canadian Video Game Awards Advisory Committee

03.20.2010

Pug Pharm President Steve Bocska has been named to the 1st Annual Canadian Video Game Awards Advisory Committee.
Co-locating with GDC-Canada, this event will honour and celebrate the best and brightest in Canadian videogames. It will be a great, fun, fast paced night featuring Canadian hosts and presenters. Canadians are masters of their craft when it [...]

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Snoget Gets… Leaderboards!

03.17.2010

Snoget has just added a full leaderboard system to track your mountain of glorious Connection Points. Now you can see how high your social connectiveness (ie. popularity) ranks… or discover what a Snoget loser you are.
Also, for a limited time you can issue friends requests directly from the leaderboard system!
Check it out at Snoget.com.

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About Pug Pharm…

02.22.2010

Think you know what “social networking entertainment” is? Well, we’ve got news for you—you don’t.
Pug Pharm Productions is the world’s first developer of unique, tasteful, online entertainment that taps the full potential of social networking technologies. Unlike activities and games released by practically every other so-called “social networking” developer in the known universe, Pug Pharm [...]

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Pharm News: “Vancouver’s Snoget Launches New Holiday Game Challenge”

11.30.2009

On November 29, 2009, Victoria Revay posted an article on the “Tech Vibes” website talking about the the launch of a new holiday game challenge within Snoget .
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Pharm News: “Pug Pharm readies launch of Snoget, a next-generation social networking game”

10.28.2009

On October 27, 2009, Dean Takahashi posted an article on the popular “Venture Beat” website outlining details about Pug Pharm’s upcoming launch of its innovative social networking online game, Snoget.
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