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Elias Toufexis Interview – Fan Expo 2011

August 31, 2011September 1, 2011 Doug Groves Adam Jensen, Deus Ex, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Eidos Montreal, Elias Toufexis, Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2011, Square Enix, voice actor0 comment

While he hasn’t had time to finish it (yet), Peter has nothing but praise for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. That’s why we decided he would probably be the best person to talk to Elias Toufexis, who plays the lead role of Adam Jensen in the game. With a lead time of about four years, it’s not surprising that Elias didn’t recognize some of his own bits of dialogue when he himself was playing the game. As a side note, now that I’ve put a few hours into Deus Ex, I have to say…

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Kik Messenger Windows Phone launch gives them Android and iOS bump

August 31, 2011August 31, 2011 Doug Groves Android, cross-platform, iOS, iPhone, Kik, Kik Messenger, SMS, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 70 comment

If you follow smartphone news at all, you know that any time a review is posted, or another patent lawsuit is announced, the fanboys and fangirls will come out in the comments and talk smack to each other. They’ll trumpet their OS while saying all others are inferior choices.

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Wacom Inkling: Digital sketches on analogue anything

August 30, 2011August 31, 2011 Danny X digitizer, inkling, napkin sketch, tablet, Wacom1 Comment

Scanners? We don’t need no stinkin’ scanners.

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Dancing Assassins – a random moment from Fan Expo

August 29, 2011August 30, 2011 Doug Groves Altair, Assassin's Creed, comic con, comic convention, contest, cool, dance, Dancing Assassins, Ezio, Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2011, funny, Just Dance 3, rgbfilter, shuffling, Toronto, Ubisoft, video, Xbox 3603 Comments

Some of the best things to happen at conventions are totally random, and you don’t expect to have your camera running at the time. At Fan Expo this year, we all happened to be in the right place at the right time. The above video is the result of a bunch of random cosplay Ezios and Altairs milling around the Ubisoft booth when they’re starting a Just Dance 3 contest.

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The best comic shops in Toronto

August 29, 2011August 29, 2011 Doug Groves contest, poll, tdot comics, tdotcomics.ca, The Best2 Comments

This month, the fine folks over at tdotcomics.ca started up a poll slash contest to find out which comic shops in the GTA are the best in a number of categories…

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Putting It Together: Modelling Modern Memes

August 26, 2011August 29, 2011 Pete Chapman Apollo moon landing, conspiracies, hoaxes, JFK, Marylin Monroe, Roswell, Tamiya3 Comments

Words fail me. Yes, it’s that good. Brought to you by Tamiya: The “Put It Together” famous conspiracies model series: the Roswell Saucer Crash, the JFK assassination with lone gunman on grassy knoll, Marilyn Monroe’s “suicide”, Elvis’ faked death and the studio-filmed Apollo “moon landing”. Apparently these models don’t exist but then where did the pictures come from? Check out the full set at GeekoSystem.

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Fan Expo 2011 details

August 19, 2011August 26, 2011 Doug Groves event, Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2011, listing0 comment

It’s that time of year again, when nerds and geeks of all stripes descend on Toronto and congregate at the shrine of pop culture known as Fan Expo. To alleviate the major congestion problems of last year, the expo is returning to the larger South Building of the Metro Convention Centre, and has added a fourth day to the event.

Fan Expo 2011 runs from August 25th to 28th, and you can catch all the details in the press release below…

Arts Featured Film

Attack the Block: The Street Finds Its Own…

August 17, 2011August 19, 2011 Pete Chapman Attack the Block, London Riots, The street finds its own uses for things, William Gibson1 Comment

William Gibson said that when he reads a science fiction story by Alfred Bester he doesn’t get any ideas about the future but he does get a feeling for what it was like to be an adult living in New York in the Fifties. Science fiction stories are always set in the present. Science fiction movies are lucky if they even come close to the present. By the time a movie gets made it’s often referring to something that’s had it’s day. Film is at best a souvenir. Viewing Attack…

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Docs and Taxes

July 29, 2011August 17, 2011 Pete Chapman business, Law, Tax0 comment

To the filmmakers in our readership- this might be of some interest to you come next year at “income tax time”. Yes, it is from an American perspective but a) some of our readers are U.S. citizens and b) Canadians shouldn’t feel too smug: our current government is unlikely to go after large corporations and it is very ambivalent about the arts and non-mainstream journalism. If Revenue Canada is trying to make itself look busy they might just decide to try some of the tactics that the IRS is presently…

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Collusion: Do you know where you are?

July 16, 2011 Pete Chapman Collusion, Firefox, Trackers, Tracking, Web Traffic11 Comments

The image and text above tells you just about everything you need to know. It’s from the Collusion project at http://collusion.toolness.org/ . It’s a Mozilla Firefox plug-in that allows you to visualise, either on the site or in a separate tab, a history of your web surfing for that session with lines showing which websites are sharing information about your movements with other websites ( the grey dots) or with dedicated trackers (the red dots). When you first visit the site it will demonstrate this using a pre-set series of…

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The death of DSLR?

July 15, 2011July 19, 2011 kingpinlei apertus, Death of DSLR, DSLR, NAB, National Association of Broadcasters0 comment

I’ve heard this argument from people who attended NAB this past year. Apparently, with the release of new prosumer video cameras that have DSLR sensors in them, professionals at NAB have proclaimed this coming year to be the “Death of DSLRs” for shooting video. Seriously?

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They Bleed Pixels gets an official trailer, summer release date

July 12, 2011July 14, 2011 Doug Groves DJ Finish Him, indie games, Miguel Sternberg, Shaun Hatton, Spooky Squid, They Bleed Pixels, XBLIG, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Indies3 Comments

Sppoky Squid has released the debut trailer for the upcoming They Bleed Pixels, a game I’ve personally been waiting for to make its appearance on Xbox Live Indie Games since before I first got a chance to play a beta version at TCAF this year. The “fast-paced, gothic lo-fi, platforming beat’em up” is due to appear on the Xbox sometime this summer.