Thinking outside the (X) box: The collision between video games and books
Assassin’s Creed: Forsaken; Gears of War: The Slab; StarCraft II: Flashpoint. These are neither the latest button-mashers, first-person shooters, nor massive multiplayer online games. They are books. A...
View ArticleDash of the Dachshunds headlines our videos of the week
Their legs may be short but they still have plenty of speed! The Calgary Herald was at the Running of the Dachshunds at the Strathmore Stampede last week. The Edmonton Journal’s Alicja Siekierska took...
View ArticleThe tight, fast Halo 5 is a truly great game that leans into change — and...
You can’t play modern home-console video games without seeing a little bit of Halo. Everything from basic modern game controls to how people match together online was first cooked up in Halo. But as...
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Why Halo launched as a video-game institution … and how it can still be one...
It’s the summer of 2003 and I’m loading my parents’ (dreadfully heavy) cathode-ray-tube television into the back of a pickup truck. Winding our way across the neighbourhood to a walk-up apartment, we...
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The incredibly simple solution to distracted driving uses technology that’s...
Who knew that ridding ourselves of distracted driving could be so easy and inexpensive? Oh, we all know that driving while texting is the scourge of modern mobility. That distracted driving now kills...
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