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Indie Fund wants to help bring your game to market

July 8, 2010 Doug Groves Braid, funding, Indie Fund, indie games, Johanthan Blow, thatgamecompany, World Of Goo1 Comment

The Indie Fund has been established by seven notable indie game developers, including (but not limited to) Braid creator Johnathan Blow, Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler of World Of Goo fame as well as thatgamecompany co-founder Kellee Santiago. Their goal is to help the funding of independent game development by support projects financially. If you have a game at the prototype stage, and a video to go along with it, you can apply for funding right now. They’re certainly not looking to fund multi-million dollar Halo or Grand Theft Auto…

RED squashes major bug, EPIC and Scarlet back on track

July 6, 2010 Doug Groves digital cinema, EPIC, Jim Jannard, Red, reduser, Scarlet1 Comment

After a major delay to a major bug in their new designs, RED is back on track with the EPIC and Scarlet cameras. Originally estimated to come out in 2009, the delays on the new digital cinema cameras were hitting ValveTime levels of unpredictability. RED founder Jim Jannard had this to say in a post last night… …we have located the wicked, mean and nasty bug and our engineering team has put a bullet in the back of it’s head. That pesky bug has put us behind in our schedule…

HandEye Society’s Arcadian Renaissance

July 6, 2010 Doug Groves arcade cabinet, classic arcade, Hand Eye Society, Nuit Blanche, Spooky Squid, TCAF 2010, TORONTRON4 Comments

The HandEye Society, the coalition of Toronto indie game designers and enthusiasts, has announced that their TORONTRON game cabinet will be appearing as part of Nuit Blanche this October 2nd, as well as offering up a full arcade of gaming goodness, under the name The Arcadian Renaissance. The TORONTRON is a classic arcade cabinet retro fitted to play video games from local developers, and has been touring around at various events, including the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. All of this will be presented as part of Nuit Blanche on Oct…

Cold calling for hackers

July 5, 2010November 6, 2020 Jason Cobworks, cold calls, commentary, sales, schedule bin1 Comment

As a hacker, you live by what you think is a high code of ethics and standards. You pride yourself on your good work, you take your work very seriously and it’s not uncommon to work every waking hour to meet a deadline. Every year or two you invest lots of time and effort learning a new technology, be it a new programming language, server platform or design paradigm. When you stroll into the office every morning, you can almost be forgiven for having what appears to be a chip…

God2.0 002 – Next Week On Lost part 2

July 5, 2010July 30, 2014 Doug Groves Comic, dougplanet, god2.0, laroquod, rgbcomic, webcomic3 Comments

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Sony 3D Launch interview

July 3, 2010July 3, 2010 Doug Groves 3D, blu ray, Bravia, canada, Future Shop, Gaming, interview, Playstation, Playstation 3, Sony, TV2 Comments

A couple of weeks back, we had a chance to go hands on with Sony’s new line of 3D TVs and PS3 games. While at the launch, we also got a chance to talk with Karol Warminiec about some of their plans.

Fable III to be released as episodic downloads as well

July 2, 2010 Doug Groves Fable III, Lionhead Studios, PC gaming, Peter Molyneux, Xbox 3601 Comment

Although Fable III will be shipping physical copies, news via Co-Optimus has it that if you’re not so interested in having a pile of discs lying around taking up shelf space, you can opt to download the game in episodic format shortly after the release. Soon after the retail launch we’re doing episodic. We break it down in chapters. We give away the first chapter entirely free, the first hour. When you reach a certain point in the game it says ‘thank you for playing the pilot of Fable III,…

Microsoft Kin is dead

July 1, 2010 Doug Groves Kin, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, Zune, Zune Marketplace3 Comments

Just a couple of months out of the gate, and Microsoft has killed it’s KIN line of no-so smart phones, before they even had a chance to get outside the US. This isn’t surprising on a number of levels. While the phones were well-spec’ed, with an interesting take on the UI, the target of younger social-media centric types (read: teens) were probably not ready to shell out real smartphone monthly fees. Not many teens (or their parents) were interested in paying $70 a month for a phone. The launch of…

Toronto Outdoor Summer Movie Nights

June 30, 2010 Doug Groves Casablanca, CN Tower, Outdoor Summer Movie Night, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, TIFF1 Comment

Tonight is the launch of 10 weeks of free movies in downtown Toronto. The Outdoor Summer Movie night event is a partnership between the Toronto International Film Festival, the CN Tower and the Toronto Entertainment District Business Improvement Area. Sure, it’s a mouthful of, but over the next couple of months, every Wednesday at 9pm you can go to Metro Square (map) and watch a pretty wide variety of films, from Casablanca to Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, and special menus from many local restaurants. The opening night events, featuring the…

Walking Dead blog: Robert Kirkman and Greg Nicotero interviews

June 29, 2010 Doug Groves AMC, Comic, Frank Darabont, Greg Nicotero, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Zombies4 Comments

It’s pretty obvious why AMC is going all out on the official Walking Dead blog. It’s mainly publicity, and a dash of assauging the fear of some fans that an adaptation of the comic into TV format might water down the gruesome contents. On the latter, I think there’s little to fear now, as they’ve been pretty open that this isn’t going to be a PG show. Of course, fans of AMC’s other shows, Mad Men, and the absolutely brilliant Breaking Bad probably guessed this right out of the gate….

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is now an annual event!

June 29, 2010June 29, 2010 drsquid Arts, canada, Comics, event, festival, TCAF, TCAF 2010, TCAF 2011, Toronto, Toronto Reference Library2 Comments

A few days ago Christopher Butcher, the TCAF Festival Director & Co-Founder, posted his festival wrap-up on the TCAF website, Torontocomics.com. In this he thanks everyone who attended, and “some of the organizations and individuals who worked to make TCAF 2010 such an unprecedented success”. We can attest to this — this year’s TCAF was the best ever, and you can see all our coverage here. However the biggest news in his post was the announcement that the Festival would be returning in 2011, and would be occurring annually from…

Rogers confirms, again, that they will carry the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro

June 29, 2010June 29, 2010 drsquid Android, canada, google, Rogers, Sony, Sony Ericsson, URmagazine, x10, X10 Mini, X10 Pro, Xperia5 Comments

A few weeks ago we posted about our discovery on Rogers website, in the list of compatible devices for the Rogers on Demand Mobile application, confirmation of the Rogers Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Mini pro. Smart people that we are, we reached out to Rogers to see if they would confirm, finally after a few months of rumours, that they would be carrying these phones. Of course, instead of confirming, all we got was a ‘no comment’, and the offending page was promptly changed to erase all trace…