Canada is a hotbed for game and app development and our country is actually the gaming industry’s third largest employer in the world, which is just one reason the Windows Phone 7 team in Canada loves its app developers.

The Windows Marketplace now holds over 12,000 apps and Windows Phone 7 continues to be focused on supporting developers so they can continue to deliver the great new apps Canadians crave.  From March 11-13, Canadians across the country went head-to-head in the Great Canadian Appathon, a 48-hour competition to create a working Windows Phone 7 game with a $25,000 grand prize at stake.