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  • John Carpenter’s first live musical performance in Toronto was a treat

    JOHN CARPENTER at the Danforth Music Hall, Sunday, November 12. Rating: NNNN Halloween has had a certain sound for as long as I’ve lived. You can hear...
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  • Toronto-made A Morticians Tale is a death-positive video game

    Theres a segment in A Morticians Tale where players encounter a cremulator. Its an odd machine that reminds me of an orange juicer, grinding human...
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  • 10 things to do at Fan Expo Canada 2017

    FAN EXPO CANADA at the Metro Convention Centre (255 Front W), August 31-September 3. All-day pass Thursday $25, Friday $40, Saturday $60, Sunday $45, four-day pass...
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  • Escape from Where Dark Things Dwell at Black Creek Pioneer Village

    It was a dark and stormy night, which is why the Secret City Adventure staff handed out plastic ponchos to anyone without an umbrella. After...
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  • Find love and Torontos PUP in Dream Daddy video game

    Vernon Shaw and Leighton Gray wrote a lot of themselves into a new dad dating simulator game, Dream Daddy. Shaw says that Mat, the coolest...
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  • Life in Anime Hell

    In high school, I went all-in on anime, and witnessed the first Canadian edition of Anime Hell. I caught on to the irreverent pop culture freak show...
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  • Koyama Press turns 10 years old at TCAF

    TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL . Main exhibition: Reference Library (789 Yonge), Saturday-Sunday (May 13-14). FREE. More event info here. Annie Koyama's always loved books and paper. In...
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  • The Oculus shift

    It's the ultimate gaming dream: virtual reality. Most major attempts at it have been embarrassing: Nintendo's Virtual Boy or Playdium's awkward holodeck that could barely...
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  • Getting attention for the game

    If you follow game feeds, you may have noticed certain trends on Twitter last week. New all-star studio Camp Santo announced its first game, Firewatch,...
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  • An irrational industry

    There was a time when Bioshock felt like a post-millenium turning point for video games. In 2007, when it was released by Irrational Games, it...
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  • Pushing beyond the buttons

    Are games art? It's not the newest question and, in fact, the debate on the issue has nearly ended, quieted down by creators and academics...
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  • From lattes to lagers

    It's not uncommon - or hard - for a pub or cafe to keep Scrabble, chess and Bananagrams somewhere in a neglected corner. But when...
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  • When games play together

    No, video games are not as they are in Wreck-It Ralph. After you turn your PlayStation off, the denizens of gamey-land don't clock out and...
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  • Strange games ahead

    Charles Pratt, curator of the No Quarter arcade, once explained to me that game design is an exercise in problem solving. Essentially, if something is...
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  • The game makers that saved Christmas

    It's not as if various square and rectangular boxes have ever made for inspiring sights when smothered in yuletide wrapping, but gaming's push towards digital...
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