In 2009, the Vortex Game Competition used municipal and provincial Canadian funding to award its top prize to a Scottish game design team. We followed up on allegations made by CultureGET, a news blog that covered the event, and found that last year’s Vortex winners, Alex Quick and John Josephson, likely had nothing to do [...] Keep Reading

What do you do when you create a Flash portal filled with word games that fails to catch on? If you’re a savvy business person, you throw your entire company into a wood chipper and go down in a blaze of glory with a high-class prostitute and a motorbike bought on credit. But when you’re [...] Keep Reading

As a writing exercise, i’m using the Linkbait Generator to create titles for my blog posts. It’s LinkBait Tuesdays! Please enjoy responsibly. 1. GameCrush GameCrush is a service where you pay real-world money to play a game over the PC or Xbox Live with a PlayDate, who is usually a pretty girl. It’s essentially a [...] Keep Reading

Deciding whether to attend the Arcadian Renaissance event during Nuit Blanche this past Saturday night/Sunday morning was difficult for me. On the one hand, i am a Hand Eye Society member, some of my Toronto indie friends had video games in the show, and my company sponsored one of the cabinets. On the other hand, [...] Keep Reading

i’ve been looking for an opportunity to divest myself of all this fabulous cash weighing down my pockets and brimming out the neckhole of my shirt, so here’s what i did: When i heard that the Hand Eye Society needed indie companies to sponsor a collection of arcade cabinets for this event, i knew i [...] Keep Reading