East Van games

Imagine a long, soundless nighttime drive, the highway lines looping past you like cassette ribbon in the dark. Or a phosphorescent campfire in the deep wood, your future written in the smoke. Now let’s say you’re in a foreign concert hall, serving drinks — you...

Open source

There’s nothing like a new project to make you feel excited about life, and that’s definitely how I’ve been feeling since I adopted an open source policy in my companies’ camera and workflow divisions. My background is in cameras. I started out...

Sooke success

With next month’s release of the Mad Max reboot, Game of Thrones going strong and a Twin Peaks remake in the works, the arrival of Disrien is perfectly timed. The icing on the cake for Sooke-based creator Simon Norton Game is that his science-fiction fantasy web...

On your feet

A new Australian gaming system promises to get gamers on their feet and reduce rates of childhood obesity. The Realm is a wearable gaming device in the form of hand-controllers connected to a belt. The aim is use resistance, whether it’s pushing, pulling or...

Case dismissed

A federal judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit claiming that The Walt Disney Co., DreamWorks Animation, Sony ImageWorks and other companies violated antitrust laws by conspiring to set animation wages via non-poaching agreements. Read More