As a writing exercise, i’m using the Linkbait Generator to create titles for my blog posts. It’s LinkBait Tuesdays! Please enjoy responsibly. Megan Fox One. When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, [...] Keep Reading

Last weekend, as the capper to the busiest week in Toronto Indie Games History, i hit up the innocuously-named Indie Showcase. The event was organized by Alex Bethke, a former Flash developer for Ganz who left his job at Cryptologic to build the indie start-up Golden Gear Inc. Alex told me that his friend had [...] Keep Reading

One of the events i attended in my whirlwind week of video game-related shindigs was START, a week-long exhibit of indie video games at OCAD, the Ontario College of Art and Design. START rotated through a selection of possibly “arty” games (though settling on a definition of arty games is still an exercise in intellectual [...] Keep Reading

At the urging of a colleague, i attended the CMF consultation in the middle of interactiveontario’s IN10 conference. i didn’t take any pictures, but i found this one on Google Image search that roughly foots the bill: Behold: paint drying. Here are some fast facts: CMF, the Canadian Media Fund, is a $350 million dollar [...] Keep Reading

It never used to be this way. Canada, the friendly and primarily Englsih-speaking neighbour to the North of the USA, used to get all the same stuff that they got stateside, at roughly the same time. Movies would be released on the same weekend, Canadian stations would broadcast big teevee shows on the same night, [...] Keep Reading