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New Canadian Video Game Awards coming this spring

March 10, 2010March 10, 2010 Doug Groves CVAwards, CVGA, video game awards1 Comment

The 1st Annual Canadian Videogame and Digital Arts Awards is set to take place May 5th at the Vancouver Convention Centre and will in essense kick off GDC Canada. This is definitely a good thing, as with the ELANs moving from Canada to the US, there’s definitely room for an awards show that highlights Canadian talent, be it big names in the gaming industry such as Bioware or Ubisoft Montreal, or the wealth of talent behind the scenes of film and television. A number of sponsor such as Microsoft and…

New TRON Legacy trailer awakens ancient geek slumber

March 9, 2010 Doug Groves trailer, Tron Legacy2 Comments

This is the new TRON: Legacy trailer. It’s very cool. There’s little else to say. … Actually, there is. It IS very cool looking, other than the Mouse House logo at the beginning. The stream above is courtesy of Joystiq, because although Disney put an HD version on YouTube, they disabled embedding. Way to grok the 21st century. Apparently this trailer also played before the 3D Disney release of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland this weekend. From anecdotal evidence, the trailer was the best part of the experience.

Attend SXSW virtually

March 9, 2010 Doug Groves festival, SXSW, torrent1 Comment

Every spring, the SXSW music festival invades Austin Texas. In the early days, it was purely a musical affair, but since then has also grown to include both film and interactive festivals that run more or less concurrently. Twitter, for example, launched at SXSE interactive in 2007. As part of it’s musical side, artists both new and established have made MP3s available free to download from the SXSE website. In more recent years those files have been compiled by the public into a huge repository of RIAA safe torrent files….

Pure Pwnage

March 9, 2010March 9, 2010 Doug Groves NSFW, Pure Pwnage0 comment

The above is the latest (and last) in the Pure Pwnage Production Blog videos before the TV series starts on Showcase this Friday. This time round Jeremy gives stand up comedy a whirl. Don’t forget that there’s a screening of the first 3 episodes of the TV series on March 20th, as well!

Pure Pwnage on the big screen

February 22, 2010 Doug Groves Bloor Cinema, Pure Pwnage, screening4 Comments

Really, the image says it all, but even with the switch from hit web series to TV show, the gang at Pure Pwnage are keeping the premiere screening tradition alive. You can catch the first 3 episodes of the new TV show on the big screen at the Bloor Cinema (that’s in Toronto for the n00bs, which is in Canada for uber n00bs), on Saturday March 20th starting at 6:30pm. The first 2 episodes will have aired on Showcase by then, which means you’ll be getting to see the 3rd…

Chew: A comic about a psychic cop, chicken, and the FDA

February 14, 2010February 16, 2010 drsquid Chew, Comics, FDA, Poultry, review0 comment

I used to buy a lot of comics, having a pull at my local comic store of anywhere between 5-10 floppies a week, but as the years have gone by I have a) become lot more selective in my choices, and b) decided to wait for trade paperbacks to come out, instead of buying single issues. It is only when something is very special that I still buy the floppies. Joining ‘The Walking Dead’, the greatest zombie story in any media, is ‘Chew’, one of the most original, funny, and…

Telus first Canadian mobile carrier to do DRM-free music

February 10, 2010 Doug Groves digital download, DRM, Music, OTA, Telus1 Comment

I haven’t looked at buying music from a mobile device in a long while, but would have figured that DRM free was now de rigueur. Apparently not for purchasing over the air on your phone, at least in Canada. Telus has announced today that they have launched a DRM-free over the air (OTA) service. In short, as a Telus customer, you’ll be able to buy music directly on your phone (with free 30 second previews). Once you have it there, since you’re free of those pesky rights management issues you…

District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp’s TEDxVancouver video

February 5, 2010February 5, 2010 drsquid District 9, Film, Neill Blomkamp, Oscars, TED, TEDx, VFS16 Comments

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a foundation known for its conferences devoted to what it calls ‘ideas worth spreading’. Along with the regular TED event, held in Long Beach CA, and the TED Global conferences (held in different cities each year), there are now independently organized TEDx events happening around the globe. In November 2009 TEDxVancouver took place at the Electronic Arts Burnaby campus. The event’s theme was ‘Forever Young’, and one of the invited speakers was Neill Blomkamp, South African born Canadian, and Vancouver Film School trained, director of…

Episode 22: IPTV

January 25, 2010January 25, 2010 Doug Groves ASRock, Asus, Bayonetta, Book Of Eli, Boxee0 comment

Want to do away with your cable bill? Ryan does, so we take a look at different options, from low cost media players like the Asus O!Play Air, all the way up to HTPC setups using nettops like the ASRock ION 330 or Acer Aspire Revo. We’ve also got reviews of Book of Eli and Bayonetta on tap.

Pure Pwnage Production Shorts

January 22, 2010 Doug Groves Pure Pwnage, TV3 Comments

As many of you may be aware, Pure Pwnage, the wildly popular Toronto based internet show has made the transition from the web to TV show, thanks to an eight episode deal with Showcase here in Canada. As part of the lead up to the premiere in March, they have started releasing a series of production shorts, the first three of which are already online. The shorts so far consist of Jeremy and FPS Doug dealing with acting classes and other requests made by the network. Unfortunately, the clips can…

AMC TV greenlights ‘The Walking Dead’ Pilot

January 22, 2010January 22, 2010 drsquid AMC, Comics, Image, Image Comics, Robert Kirkman, Walking Dead, Zombies10 Comments

Last year it was announced that Robert Kirkman’s Image comic‘The Walking Dead’ had been optioned by AMC to be turned into a TV Series. This was great news for many. As an ongoing series on the cable network, it won’t be bound by the same FCC constrictions as the broadcast networks. This should hopefully lead to an authentic adaptation of what our friend Chris at Comics212 (and organizer of TCAF) says was one of the past decades best genre comics. On Wednesday the show took one more shamble closer to…

rgbFilter @ TCAF 2009 – Jamie McKelvie, Ray Fawkes & Alec Longstreth

January 21, 2010May 7, 2010 drsquid Comics, event, Image, Jamie McKelvie, ka-blam, lulu, Oni Press, Phonogram, Ray Fawkes & Alec Longstreth, TCAF, tcaf 20093 Comments

Last May we attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and got a chance to talk to a lot of the artists at the show. We posted 2 videos back in May, but a lot of the other interviews were put on the backburner, so, after a long delay, we will finally be posting the remaining videos, just in time to coincide with the announcement of TCAF 2010 guest list. In this video we talk to Jamie McKelvie, the artist, with writer Kieron Gillen, of Phonogram, Ray Fawkes, one half of…