"Interactive fiction, which once went by the name 'text adventure,' is having a moment." -- New York Times (July 7, 2014) WordPlay is our free one-day festival celebrating the most interesting [...]
"What kind of movies do you like?" "I don't like movies. Too violent." Sounds silly, right? But that conversation happens all the time, just with "games" instead of "movies". Lots of [...]
We're collaborating with the Ontario Science Centre for their ScienceRocks! Night this month. ScienceROCKS! transforms the Science Centre into a music playground, where adults 19+ can rock out to live performances, engage in [...]
By now many of you will have heard that membership in the Hand Eye Society is gained by those who contribute 10 hours of volunteer time to any videogame culture project [...]
The Artsy Games Incubator: Writing Edition is focused on writers of all stripes -- novelists, journalists, bloggers, scriptwriters, zinesters, poets -- who are interested in the expressive possibilities of videogames, but who have little to [...]
The Artsy Games Incubator: Animation Edition was a 6-week game making workshop for animators that we ran a few months back. Check out the video about it that includes gameplay footage of [...]
We are delighted that the participants of our Artsy Games Incubator: Animation Edition will be discussing their brand new games for the first time at TAAFI next week! The games will also [...]
Capybara Games' Nathan Vella did a great job hosting last night's IGF Awards, which were sadly lacking in any wins for Toronto nominees Jazzpunk and The Yawhg. One of the best [...]
The Art Gallery of Ontario exhibit featuring the Torontrons has been held over until the 26th -- so the people who attend the Meet the Artists Talk featuring Jonathan Mak, Jim [...]
As this Toronto Star article reports, our iconic indie arcade cabinets are now available for free play to the public in the AGO's Community Gallery as a part of an exhibit called [...]
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