Watch the WordPlay Panel and Kentucky Route Zero Discussion
If you were unable to check out (or were, and wanted to share) the panel and the discussion we had in November at the WordPlay Festival, you're in luck. These are [...]
Fancy Videogame Party
Update: All 550 tickets have been sold. Sorry! Update: The second selected games, DJs and technology announcement is up! Update: The first selected games announcement is here! Ready to see the [...]
Wild Rumpus Call For Submissions
Isn't it a shame that The Wild Rumpus - the celebrated multiplayer games and music event that regularly brings the hippest party to San Francisco's GDC, Austin's Fantastic Arcade and various London locales - hasn't hit [...]
WordPlay Fest Pics and Showcase Links
On Saturday we had over 200 people attend the inaugural WordPlay Festival of Writerly Games. The Toronto Reference Library was an amazing venue -- where better to celebrate games with a [...]
WordPlay Schedule, Announcements, a Brick Sandwich
Coincidentally, WordPlay is happening the day after the Playstation 4 release. Unlike the latest-and-greatest console, our festival of writerly games features more polysyllables than polygons. We have recently confirmed that Miguel [...]
Gamercamp Starts This Friday!
Jaime Woo from Gamercamp writes: Gamercamp is celebrating its fifth year (!!!) and it's going all out! First, there are three awesome visiting guest speakers coming in from Vancouver, Quebec City, [...]
Free Copies of Kentucky Route Zero
As you know from our previous announcements, one of the exciting formats we're trying with the writerly games WordPlay Festival on Sat. Nov 16th is a book club-style discussion of the magical [...]
A Live Video Game Comedy Show
Stephanie writes: It’s an all-out melee as Toronto’s finest comedians take on their favourite video games -- both classic & current -- LIVE on the Comedy Bar stage. This unique show [...]
IGDA Toronto Collecting Coins: New Funding Options for Game Developers
Ryan Creighton from the IGDA writes: Thanks to everyone who joined us for our fall kick-off event with Neil Druckmann. The IGDA Toronto 2014 season is in full swing with October's [...]
Reading Beyond Presence: Race & Ethnicity in Games
Reading Beyond Presence is an interactive seminar led by games writer and Dames Making Games member Soha Kareem, and will focus on how racial identities can be integrated into the games [...]
