Thursday night is my night to kick back on the couch and play Xbox Live games with a friend of mine a few cities over. Last night we were trolling for new stuff to play, when he mentioned he’d just downloaded Hasbro’s Family Game Night. It’s a mini-game collection packed with Hasbro’s beaten-dead-horse standbys like [...] Keep Reading

i’m just getting back from IN09, the re-branded interactive ontario new media conference formerly known as ICE, and to be known in the future simply as I (short “I” sound, like the one you make when you’re cleaning out your fridge for the first time in six months, and some of what used to be [...] Keep Reading

GREAT FIBBINGTON’S MOUSTACHE! UNTOLD ENTERTAINMENT CREATES KAHOOTS ENTIRELY FROM CLAY Canadian game studio strives for something different TORONTO, ON – March 17 2009 – Untold Entertainment Inc., a Canadian game studio specializing in online casual games for kids, happily announces the development of Kahootsâ„¢. Kahootsâ„¢ is a challenging game of nonsensical crime and silly intrigue, [...] Keep Reading

Jean-Francois Levesque, a fellow IGDA (Interspatial Glockenspiel Defamation Alliance) LinkedIn member, recently started a new job board for Game Industry Grunts. These are entry level people, who are frustrated that the game industry is notoriously tough to break into because every position requires a few years’ experience, or credits on a published title. If only. [...] Keep Reading

Due perhaps to my naturally impish disposition, and the sly way i raise only one eyebrow when i can’t think of anything intelligent to say, people tend to expect the worst from me. i’ve worked very hard these past few years to clean up my act – my literal social act – by curbing the [...] Keep Reading