Results tagged “gaming”

If you were strong enough to have eschewed the allure of last week's Torontoist Gamercamp preview piece because you don't like playing video games, congratulations! Your resistance allowed you to miss out on some pretty sweet cupcake action on Saturday. Way to go! more ›

If snacks and unlimited arcade freeplay are relevant to your interests, you might want to read on. more ›

One of the myriad press releases that made a brief and unremarkable splash in the tech feed pool this week announced the fifth anniversary of the Vortex Game Competition, an annual contest/boot camp/conference that has enjoyed varying levels of success among Toronto gaming circles since 2004. Slogging through the three pages of shiny, marketing-fresh copy may turn off many a young gamer who would otherwise be interested in such an event, but a little reading between the lines reveals that, win or fail, this year’s Vortex holds some secret networking opportunities for aspiring designers/developers hoping to gain an edge on some pretty exciting developments in the Toronto gaming industry (hint: Ubisoft! And Dragons’ Den!). more ›

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Not satisfied with the long odds currently on offer at Ontario's casinos, problem gamblers have found a new way to probably not win an obscene amount of money. According to the CBC, problem gamblers who have voluntarily excluded themselves from casinos are filing a $3.5 billion lawsuit against the OLG, claiming that the system that is intended to keep them out of casinos doesn't work. more ›

Today’s release on Xbox Live Arcade is Trigger Heart Exelica, an originally Japan-only Dreamcast "bullet hell" vertically scrolling shooter, and if that sentence doesn’t make any sense to you whatsoever, that’s totally fine. more ›