A number of exciting portable game developments are being funded by the Canadian Government.  The recently announced winners of the Great Canadian Video Game Competition will each receive $50,000 in round-one financing to develop and market their original game ideas.  We are excited to see that at least four of the 10 finalists will be developing software for portable/wireless gaming.  These include an action-platformer for the Nintendo DS, a couple of paranoid conspiracy games over wireless and a brain trainer clone (wait, I thought these were all supposed to be original ideas, guys). Expect to hear a lot more from these indie developers in the near future: