Results tagged “halflife”

We don’t tend to post too often about video games here at Torontoist, what with basically the entire rest of the internet being devoted to it (well, that and anthropomorphic Star Trek slash fiction), but we do like to make special note when some pleasant news of local interest comes up, such as Toronto as a Half Life mod or the Toronto Indie Game Jam (Which we, er, forgot to mention this year. Our...

The Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations were announced yesterday at the top of First Canadian Place. And for once, there is little to argue with… (Well, there's always something to argue about, so feel free to go at it in the comments here.)

Judging from a workshop production Torontoist saw last year at Passe Muraille, Half Life could be Mighton's most emotionally-satisfying and well-balanced work to grace the rhombus-shaped platform we call the stage. There’s hardly any theoretical musing in it at all… Well, except for the fact that one of the main characters is a judge in a Loebner Prize-esque Turing Test competition where computer scientists try to create artificial intelligence. But, for the scientophobic, that little fact is easily forgotten.