Pug Pharm 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.

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

Selected out of 53 applicant companies, Pug Pharm was one of 15 companies invited to make a full presentation in front of a dozens 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.

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 designers and developers.

GDC Canada is the premier event for local and international game developers to connect, share and inspire industry innovation. For more information, visit http://www.gdc-canada.com/.

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 private sector entrepreneurs. The national program supports the creation and the distribution of interactive cultural content products through: Product Assistance, Sectoral Assistance and Sectoral Development. For more information about Telefilm Canada, please visit: http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/

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 comes to making games, visual effects and computer animation. They work tirelessly to build terrific entertainment, which then becomes a world class export that the entire planet consumes and is thrilled by. It is time to let everyone know where this fine work comes from!

The event will feature the internationally renowned musical talent of VideoGames Live!

Video Games Live is the power & emotion of a symphony orchestra mixed with the excitement and energy of a rock concert and the technology, fun and interactivity of a video game all completely synchronized to amazing cutting edge video screen visuals, state-of-the artlighting, special FX and special on-stage interactive segments with the audience.

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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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.

Read the full article here …