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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...