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  • A letter to the next generation

    So, here we are. I've had sit-downs and sessions with both PlayStation the fourth and Xbox the first, and some of you reading this may...
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  • Pong live the new flesh

    I finally got to use the Oculus Rift. The front-heavy goggles from Videodrome swerve around with the head, looking as you do. In this demoed...
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  • Campgrounds

    The first year was at the Ossington Theatre: watching talks, demos from local developers Metanet, Spooky Squid, Capybara and an early Drinkbox Studios, broken up...
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  • When gamers go pro

    There's spectacle, there's excitement and there are at least a hundredfold as many onlookers as you'd get in front of an old Street Fighter II...
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  • Pokemon X and Generation Y

    Before being quizzed on Jigglypuff's evolution during a Tuesday night Hebrew school class, I was under the illusion that my schoolyard was the trendiest in...
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  • Fighting words

    Alex Hayter of Blot Interactive found himself with an odd task. He had to get his grandmother to say "Sheen" over Facebook chat. Sheen, as...
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  • Grand Theft everything

    The Blockbuster clerk wasn't supposed to let me rent Grand Theft Auto III the week it came out. Even a few Mortal Kombats in, I...
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  • Waking up a Sleeper Cell

    It was always part of the mission. When Ubisoft set up camp, they already knew which game they were going to make. There's no shortage...
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  • Love’s Hate Story

    Here in North America, the biggest games are about shooting the biggest opponents with the biggest guns. Interactive text stories with manga art? Not so...
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  • Have surrealist video game critique of identity politics, will travel

    It's overcast in Kensington. No grumbles of thunder, but the welding shop next to Videofag is sparking some Frankenstein-style lighting behind a lurched yellow van...
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  • Dames saving games

    Hey everyone. Women play video games. A lot of women. Heck, they even make video games. For many grown gamers, the presence of women in...
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  • Where the wizards are

    Earlier in the year, in promotion for Stratford's production of Tommy, 100 pinball machines were assembled in First Canadian Place. Sure, that's 100 including repeated...
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  • Wii U and everyone we know

    E3 - the Electronic Entertainment Expo - is a massive annual Los Angeles video game trade show/mecca, full of lights, noise, screens for unreleased titles...
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  • Child’s play

    The pachinko games were out of order, and the two out of three pinball machines were down, but the Ontario Science Centre's Game On 2.0...
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  • Chipping away at something new

    Peter Berkman was curious about the long line of teenagers winding around the Much Music building. He wondered what band was causing all the commotion....
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