Another great year for games (and a terrible year for the games industry)! Honestly, the overabundance of games coming out every single day makes it feel like there’s kind of...
Heck of a year for theatre! Starting the year with a trip to New York really kicked things off with a bang, but the year never really slowed down. I’ve...
What a fun year for movies! I think that I’ve done a pretty solid job of keeping up with new releases (by my standards, anyway), as well as making time...
It’s been a bit of a down year for reading for me, sorry to say. 2024 started off strong for me, with a series of books that I thoroughly enjoyed...
From Jake Steinberg’s essay Gamers Don’t Understand Story: “Storytelling in games is not confined to the cinematic or the literary. It is in the spaces we inhabit, the paths we trace,...
In a recent episode of the excellent podcast Into the Aether, Stephen Hilger raised an excellent question. To paraphrase: when something calls itself a game, what is required of it for...
I occasionally find myself on internet forums looking at how people rank entries in a director’s filmography, an author’s catalogue, a video game series, or so on. On those forums,...
It’s that time of the year again when everyone looks back on the music that they listened to most in the past year and then shares that information with their...
Every October for the past several years, Jess and I have watched Patrick McHale’s Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall. Neither of us is someone with a strongly defined daily...
The only thing that’s worse than the current feeling resulting from the US election is the knowledge that we’ve got our own Canadian reckoning coming up next, like a wrestler...
Video games’ mixed representation as both commodity and art puts them in a position that other art forms aren’t in. Audiences’ sense that games (and especially older games) don’t have...
It’s an odd thing to have the feeling that you need to “keep up” with your interests, especially when the feeling is inconsistent between your interests. I’ve never in my...
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Humans of Fairy Creek at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. I found it quite impactful and lovely, but I also found that I needed...