Wondering how you’ll get around Hong Kong as Wei Shen in Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs? Take a sneak peek and see how you can get behind the wheel of more than 65 different vehicles and participate in illegal racing, stunts and high-speed hijackings in this new trailer from the good folks at Goldtooth Creative. Road rage never seemed so cool!

We are happy to offer our heartfelt congratulations to the entire team at Eidos-Montreal for being nominated eight times  at the 2012 Canadian Videogame Awards for Deus Ex: Human Revolution!!!

DX:HR was nominated in the following categories: Game of the Year; Best Console Game; Best Audio; Best Game Design; Best Visual Arts; Best Writing; Best New Character (Adam Jensen); and Best Original Music.

The upcoming Canadian Videogame Awards will be held in Vancouver on Saturday, April 21 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

For more information, visit the awards show website.

And don’t forget to vote for the Game of the Year!!! (Psst. It’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Pass it on!)

After posting a positive review of the live action Sleeping Dogs trailer, Unfinishedman.com co-founder and writer Chad Barnsdale wanted to learn more about what it takes to make such a kick-ass trailer. We hooked him up with Goldtooth Creative’s associate creative director Paul Furminger, who shared some behind-the-scenes secrets and provided a glimpse into how the trailer was made. Make sure you check out the interview here!

Square Enix recently released a five-minute developer diary that looks into game developer United Front Games’ efforts to achieve the highest degree of accuracy in recreating Hong Kong for the upcoming Sleeping Dogs.  The clip includes interviews with executive producer Stephen Van Der Mescht, senior producer Jeff O’Connell, art director Hani Ghazaleh and design director Mike Skupa and features a kaleidoscope of colourful images of Hong Kong interspliced with in-game content. To see the developer diary, visit here.

Congratulations to everyone at Goldtooth Creative who worked on the Purity First live-action trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution after it was announced this week that the hard-hitting and visionary spot was nominated for three awards at the 2012 PromaxBDA Game Marketing Awards!!! This year’s Game Marketing Summit and Awards will be held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco on April 17.

The Purity First spot was nominated in the three following categories:

1) SHARPEST LIVE ACTION AWARD – BEST ENGINEERING

2) BEST COPYWRITING FOR A VIDEO ASSET

3) OUTSTANDING PROMOTIONAL TRAILER

Deus Ex: Human Revolution was also nominated in the best swag category for Sarif Industries’ augmented arm sleeves.

For a complete list of nominees, click here.

Stunt performer/actor Brian Ho, who played Wei Shen in Goldtooth Creative’s live-action trailer for Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs, was recently interviewed by Shogun Gamer in an extensive and exclusive Q&A published in early March. The article, found here, talks about Ho’s extensive career experience in film and video games and what he brought to the live-action trailer’s production team. Watch for the shout out to Kody Sabourin and Paul Furminger!!

Popular game industry news source, GamesBizWire.com, recently spoke with Goldtooth Creative’s audio director and vice-president Tyler Weiss for a feature that the well-known web site published this week. In the article, Weiss talks about how Goldtooth Creative came to be, his favourite video games and of course, Goldtooth Creative’s successes in 2011 and what’s in store for this year.

Goldtooth Creative’s Tyler Weiss, Paul Furminger and Kerry McDowall returned back from GDC 2012 with many a story to tell and exciting things to talk about in the times ahead. Much love to all those who made the trip such a success!!!

With so much going on these days, it is sometimes easy to forget just how much great work we’ve done in the past 18 months. So why not take a refresher and check out Goldtooth Creative’s newly updated reels!!  Tasty Goldtooth goodness comes in all kinds of flavours: CG, Motion Graphics, Live Action and Visual Effects. If you’re an all dressed kind of person, than the company reel is the full meal deal you’re looking for. Keep your eyes peeled for more reels coming soon!!

Interested in learning more about what Goldtooth’s staff has been up to? Be sure to check out their reels at Goldtooth Creative’s Vimeo page.

Keep real. Keep current. Keep golden.

Goldtooth Creative will be representing at GDC 2012 in San Francisco this week.

Vice-president and audio guru Tyler Weiss, director Paul Furminger and manager Kerry McDowall will be at the conference from Tuesday, March 6 to Friday, March 9 taking meetings and making new friends. If you are interested in hooking up with Goldtooth at GDC, please be sure to contact info@goldtoothcreative.com to arrange a time.

See you in sunny California!!!

After Goldtooth Creative’s heart-pounding live-action trailer for Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs was released last month, fans of the upcoming Hong Kong-based crime drama were stoked to learn more about the title and see it for themselves. Well the wait is over!!! Developed by United Front Games in Vancouver, the  Sleeping Dogs gameplay trailer that Goldtooth Creative assembled for your viewing pleasure is now online. Enjoy!!!