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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!).