Who doesn’t remember 1983? It was the year that Thomas Sankara became the president of the Republic of Upper Volta. It was the year McDonald’s debuted the “chicken” McNugget. And it’s the year that video games, once a viable and promising business, went (in economic terms) completely tits-up. Quoth Wikipedia: There were several reasons for [...] Keep Reading

i took the family to IKEA today, as a weird potty-training reward for my youngest. The store offers free child care in a room with a ball pool; we told Izzy that they wouldn’t take kids who weren’t potty trained. Before a week was out, she was pooping on the can like a champ. But [...] Keep Reading

“Escalation” is the term game developers use to describe the ways in which a video game gets progressively more challenging. There are many different ways to escalate a game. Here are a few: decrease the amount of time the player has to complete a goal at the climax of Super Metroid, the player has to [...] Keep Reading

When Untold Entertainment Inc. turned three last year, we were reeling from the fallout of the global economic collapse. It’s been a slow, difficult recovery, and we still have a lot of work left to do, but i’m happy to say we’ve nosed out of the tailspin. This was a landmark year for Untold; we [...] Keep Reading

The current crop of teens and early 20-somethings in Ontario (and perhaps elsewhere, but i can only comment on Ontario) is being derided for its poor work ethic and its sense of entitlement. In my notorious articles What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges? (Part 1 and Part 2), i boiled it all down to certain decisions [...] Keep Reading