For the first year, Big Viking Games had the pleasure of attending the 2015 Canadian HR Awards hosted in Toronto at the Liberty Grand Complex! We were honoured to be nominated and recognized for The Cotton Candy Award (Best Reward and Recognition Strategy) as well as The Beyond Boardrooms Award which nominated our Human Resource Manager, Ana Ivanic as the HR Rising Star of the Year. Read More
In 2008, during the Facebook social games craze, Greg Thomson (CPO and co-founder of Big Viking Games) decided to sell his game, YoVille (now YoWorld) to Zynga. At that point, YoWorld was generating more than 100,000 new installs every single day with virtually zero dollars spent on marketing. Read More
On March 10th, Jason C. decided to let his fellow Viking employees cut off all his hair (all 24 inches of it!) for the Canadian Cancer Society! Of course we had to get this monumental moment on film which is exactly what we did. Here’s a little bit of background information:
This past weekend, Big Viking Games had the honour of attending the HTML500 event with many other talented companies and organizations in London. The event was created by Lighthouse Labs – a Vancouver based Development Bootcamp which dedicates itself to teaching individuals everything they need to know about coding and programming to become wizards at their craft – all in 8 intensive weeks. The event itself is a short snippet of that, where one of the instructors teaches a group of 500 how to build a basic website from scratch (all for free), and the participants work closely with developers to accomplish this task. Read More
