Game history repeats itself. North American gamers who rushed to buy Wii Fit, Nintendo’s new exercise game, are reporting damages and injuries that the company did not anticipate. Gamers are getting carried away with the stretching, aerobicizing and wobbling that the Wii Balance Board peripheral prescribes. Some enthusiastic gamers are flying off the board and [...] Keep Reading

The Toronto Indie game dev scene steps out next Friday June 6th for the TOJam Arcade. The event wil host the 37 games that were created a few weeks back at the third annual TOJam. The TOJam Arcade: for f*ck’s sake, bring your PowerGlove i don’t want to spoil all the suprises, but here’s a [...] Keep Reading

i was filled with regret when i let this job posting for a CBC Flash developer pass by without comment. Now it looks like they’ve reposted it, after failing to find their developer a few weeks ago. Why, pray tell, would CBC not be able to fill this position? Let’s take a closer look at [...] Keep Reading

Shortly after forming Untold Entertainment Inc, i bowed out of my role as a Canadian video game journhalist, forfeiting perhaps the only benefit of the job: playing hot new titles before anyone else. That decision had me standing in line this morning at the Bay + Dundas SuprPrice in Toronto with the chubby, unwashed masses, [...] Keep Reading

Caveat lector: i write this through bleary, unslept eyes. The third annual TOJam event wrapped late last night. This year, around 125 developers crammed into a scary warehouse at the edge of town to spend one weekend creating all kinds of video games about cheese. Cheese was this year’s theme. Some developers, like Shawn McGrath [...] Keep Reading