The Cannery Wins Best Video Game and Interactive Entertainment Awards; The Cannery Recognized at 5th Annual Horizon Interactive Awards Competition.BURBANK, Calif. -- The Cannery, a Los Angeles-based advanced media and creative services Creative Services are a subsector of the creative industries, a part of the economy that creates wealth by offering creativity for hire to other businesses. Examples include:
The annual competition, now in its fifth year, recognized The Cannery for its excellence in interactive media production worldwide. The Cannery was first honored with the award for Best of Category, Video Game, for their original DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. game, "Who Rules?"(TM). The agency was also awarded a Gold Award in the Entertainment category for their work on Activision's "Making of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, also known as THAW or Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 7, is a video game that has been released for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube and PC. The game was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. "(TM) DVD. "It is an honor to be recognized for our interactive media talents, especially across two different categories," said Doug Textor, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of The Cannery. "We are thrilled that in addition to our original intellectual properties, the hard work we do for our world-class clients was commended." The 2006 competition was the largest and most competitive to date, nearly double the size of the previous year. Horizon Interactive Awards received hundreds of entries from 16 countries including: Australia, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Italy, Malaysia, Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, and nearly all 50 U.S. States. A panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
"The Horizon Interactive Awards winners are at the top of their class. All of the winners this year exemplify the highest standard for interactive media development," said Mike Sauce, founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. "It is truly amazing to see the level of creativity, craftsmanship and artistry on display among this year's winners." The Horizon Interactive Awards holds the annual competition in early spring of each year. For more information visit the Horizon Interactive Awards at www.horizoninteractiveawards.com. |
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