The mid-term exam that i ran yesterday during the college-level Flash course i’m teaching was an absolute slaughter. Limbs flying, computers exploding, babies endangered … just an action-packed mess. It served as the perfect rationale for my recent articles on What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges (Part 1 and Part 2). These are the notes [...] Keep Reading

This series is called “What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges?” A number of you have pointed out, on Twitter and elsewhere, that what i’m describing is what’s wrong with all colleges. But now, i want to shine the spotlight on perhaps an unexpected target, and suggest that not only are colleges flawed, but so [...] Keep Reading

Apple debuted their new device today, a large-format iPod Touch that they’re calling the iPad. The first thing that may come to mind when you think of the word “pad” is “menstrual pad”, which is a spongy mesh-covered product that ladies put in their underpants to blot the flow of blood from their periods. Nearly [...] Keep Reading

This article has nothing to do with video games, and for that, please forgive me. i was enrolled in a bona fide University at one point in my life working toward a degree in Cultural Studies before Opportunity knocked and suggest i actually do something with my life instead. Here’s what my ramblings [...] Keep Reading

The Vortex Competition is a game design contest run by Bill Marshall, one of the minds behind the Toronto International Film Festival, his wife Sari Ruda, and assorted others. The website claims (spuriously) that this is the fifth anniversary of the competition. According to the site itself, the competition has only been run [...] Keep Reading