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

As a writing exercise, i’m using the Linkbait Generator to create titles for my blog posts. It’s LinkBait Tuesdays! Please enjoy responsibly. Make Quotes, Not War While not all strictly hippies, here are five famous figures from the time period When Hippies Roamed the Earth, with an inspirational quotation attributed to each. 1. William S. [...] Keep Reading

i’ll admit i was pretty excited to receive an invitation to Revenge of the Nerds, the grand opening office-warming party for the new Ubi Soft Toronto studio that took place last weekend. i’m not a very big Ubi fan (nothing against them – i just rarely play M-rated games), but i was kind of tickled [...] Keep Reading

In a recent post, i unfairly characterized interactiveontario head Ian Kelso as a “film guy”. i was (and am) disappointed in io’s content offering and what i perceive as a lack of advocacy for small games shops like my own here in Toronto. i also felt jilted for not being asked to participate in io’s [...] Keep Reading

Super Mario Bros., everyone’s favourite video game homage to ethnic stereotyping, celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. This news, my Sunday night at Ubi Soft’s grand opening where they had game artifcats in cases decorating the hallways, and my shaking hands with the creator of Prince of Persia on Monday, had me reminiscing about gaming [...] Keep Reading