From June 2 to July 20, Toronto will play host to a wide range of events, showcases, and community gatherings that celebrate games and the people who make them. Interactive Ontario is proud to be part of Toronto Games Week and Video Game Month. From the return of our Indie Superboost Marketing & Discoverability Bootcamp, to the brand new Giant Video Games, XP Game Summit 2025, The GRID playtesting event, Pixel Power Play showcase, Xsolla Connect, VRTO, and more, IO will be at the heart of the action. We are helping to spotlight Ontario studios and support their growth, and we look forward to seeing you throughout the festivities!
Giant Video Games
Location: Canada Malting Silos, Toronto
Cost: Free
We’re kicking off Toronto Video Game Month with something big. Giant Video Games is an outdoor event where local games will be projected onto the side of the Malting Silos down at the waterfront, including projects from Drinkbox Studios, Hilltop Studios, and several other accomplished indie teams. There’ll also be an arcade area with games to demo, interactive installations, and lots of familiar faces from the community. We’re proud to partner with the City of Toronto, OCADU, and Toronto Games Week on this one, and we can’t wait to see you there.
XP Game Summit 2025
IO returns to XP Game Summit with our curated Indie Superboost (ISB) Track, featuring over 15 talks hand-selected to help indie studios grow their business, visibility, and market reach. Programming covers topics from marketing and production to platform strategy and business development.
IO members receive an exclusive discount on XP Conference & VIP tickets. Contact our team today to receive your code.
XP Game Summit is hosting two expert-led workshops on June 11th. These sessions are designed to provide real, applicable value to indie studios and are extremely limited in capacity. Additional details can be found below.
Help us bring more buyers to XP & MIGS!
IO and the Canadian Interactive Alliance (CIAIC) have worked closely with our partners at XP to bring in nearly 20 different publishers from across the globe to meet with studios attending this year’s summit. With this in mind, we need your help to attract more publishers and buyers to future events, including MIGS 2025 and XP Game Summit 2026. If you’re planning to attend XP or MIGS, please complete this short survey—it helps us find the right partners for your projects.
The Grid
Pixel Power Play
Date: June 14, 2025, In-person + Twitch livestream
IO is partnering with this Day of the Devs-style showcase, which features 20+ studios, live gameplay demos, dev interviews, and a three-hour Twitch broadcast featuring a ton of games. Several IO member studios will be featured during the event and stream, so we hope to see you there!
VRTO 2025
Dates: June 25–26, 2025, Toronto
VRTO brings together leaders in XR, spatial media, AI, virtual production, and immersive storytelling for two days of talks, workshops, and exhibitions. Interactive Ontario Members receive an exclusive discount and an opportunity to showcase their XR title at the event. Contact our team to learn more.
Seriously Fun Showcase & Social with Wero
Date: June 17, 2025, 8:00 – 11:00 PM, Toronto
Hosted by Interactive Ontario Members Wero Creative, you can join the community of serious game enthusiasts and developers for a free evening highlighting innovative projects that explore the educational, instructive, and political power of games.
Canadian Games Steam Sale
Date: July 1, 2025, Steam (online)
Submission Deadline: June 10th, 2025
La Guilde du jeu vidéo du Québec, our CIAIC colleagues, are helping lead a national Steam sale celebrating Canadian-made games. Organized in partnership with Breaking Walls Studio, the Canada Games Steam Sale launches July 1 and aims to spotlight titles from across the country. IO encourages all eligible studios to participate and help showcase Ontario’s game development talent on the world’s biggest PC platform.
Canadian Video Game Industry Article: Mobile Syrup
This week, Interactive Ontario’s President & CEO Lucie Lalumière contributed her voice – along with many others from our industry – in discussing what makes the Canadian video game industry so amazing, and highlighting work that needs to be done to enable this industry to reach it’s full potential.
Thank you to Bradly Shankar, and the team at Mobile Syrup, for platforming some of these prominent industry voices from Ontario and beyond. And a special thank you to all of the contributing voices found throughout this piece, including our valued partners and members.
Journalism like this is an important step towards providing the Canadian video game sector the recognition it deserves.
IO Partner Spotlight: Xsolla
Join global and local leaders at Xsolla Connect, an invite-only gathering happening June 12, from 6-9 pm ET at the CN Tower. This exclusive event brings together top voices in the games industry for meaningful conversations, networking, and insights that go beyond the main stage. The Xsolla team will also be attending XP Game Summit 2025, you can book a meeting with them today on Meet To Match.
Our Mission: To inspire, unite and enable Ontario’s video game and interactive digital media community to achieve long-term growth and prosperity.
