The Toronto After Dark Film Festival kicks off today, and it’s getting its first dose of games with the inaugural TAD Darckade, an indie video games showcase to run concurrently with the cult film fest.
Highlighting video game culture at large, Gamercamp is presenting Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney film, directed by infamous Japanese schlockmeister-turned-auteur Takashi Miike, in its Toronto premiere.
One of gaming’s most visible faces walks into the horizon, a Toronto-based game wins honours at Indiecade, and World of Warcraft gets pulled into the equally bizarre world of U.S. politics.
Toronto's Gamercamp is set to announce another stellar addition to their already rad local and international lineup today. Get your hatchets and beans ready, because we've learned that one Dean "Rocket" Hall, creator of the wildly popular ARMA 2 mod DayZ, will be coming to TO for the two day game celebration running November 3 - 4.
Free-to-play games might not be the devil? A World of Warcraft expansion fails to crack the one-million sales mark? Nintendo plans actual downloadable content for a videogame? It’s bizarro week in the News Shelf.
Tokyo Game Show (TGS), the biggest games exhibition in Japan, generated most of the headlines late this week. While most note that the Japanese games industry has shrunk over the last few years, especially in comparison to the growth of developers and studios in North America, the home of Sony, Nintendo and other creators still puts on an impressive show every year. Let’s take a look at some of the notable TGS headlines (and others) at the News Shelf.
Welcome to the News Shelf. Thursday’s announcement of the Wii U price, retail packages and launch date dominated the headlines, so that’s where we’re starting. But they aren’t the only company who made an announcement about bringing their games to your television. It isn’t even the only major tech hardware announcement to happen this week (three guesses as to what the other one was). Let’s take a look at the rundown.
Looking for a TIFF activity that doesn’t involve a two-hour rush line? Try checking out the TIFF Nexus Mini-Arcade! The exhibit runs for the duration of the festival and infuses the proceedings with a bit of local gaming flavour with help from a slew of prominent developers. All of the games are free to play and ask only that you open your mind to something new.
Five No Quarter developers will be heading north to discuss their games at the first Gamercamp No Quarter Arcade.
If you've been paying attention to webcomics in the last couple years, you've inevitably ran across MS Paint Adventures, or at least the cosplayers attached to it. Naturally, being aimed at pre-teens-and-older who spend a growing amount of their free time online, this comic is pretty damned popular. That became evident when the comic's creator, Andrew Hussie, put up a Kickstarter yesterday with the aim of funding an adventure game after the comic finished.
Dork Shelf doesn’t usually go knee-deep into the news world of video games, because let’s not kid ourselves – you’ve got a multitude of other sites to refresh on a 45-minute cycle. But we're building Dork Shelf into your must-read nexus for everything nerd, so here’s the first installment of our weekly gaming roundup. This week we've got the release of more PSOne games on the Vita, the release of They Bleed Pixels and Home on Steam, Metal Gear Solid movie and game news, and a super rad trailer for Super TIME Force.
Toronto-based games festival lands Splinter Cell, Super T.I.M.E. Force and No Quarter.
On Monday, gaming fans lined up in front of electronics and gaming stores to await the midnight launch of Diablo III. Gamers had been waiting more than 12 years since the last installment devoured the lives of millions, so what was another 12 or so hours?
We take a look at some of the offerings at this year's TIFF Kids Festival, running April 10th to the 22nd at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. Even though the festival is technically for kids aged 3-13, aren't we all just kids at heart?
We take a look at this years' Toronto-based French language film festival, happening at the Lightbox from March 23rd to April 1st.
