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

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

Last year, i suggested that in the future, we’ll have to grant generational amnesty to young people as sort of a clean slate for online indiscretions. i based this on the hair-curling amount of nonsense posted online by the youth group members i worked with at my church: Forgive Us Our Facebook Over the weekend, [...] Keep Reading

i’m at the Seattle airport waiting for a flight, and i thought i’d blog about the Casual Connect conference i attended this week. The conference is held by the Casual Games Association, or Cuh-GAAAAH for short. This was my second time at the conference, and like most repeat visits to places, the show lost a [...] Keep Reading

i don’t mean to alarm anyone who read about my tour of the Bell Lightbox a few weeks ago, but it turns out there may be more than meets the eye to the shiny new condominium and events building. To wit: like, zoiks! Over the weekend, I was speaking with someone who was working construction [...] Keep Reading