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Our buddies over at Site 3 have got a Lightning Talk event happening tomorrow night. “Using the 5+5 model from Kwartzlab, we’re inviting 10 speakers — 5 from other groups, 5 from Site 3 — to give 5 minute talks on what they’re doing.” After the talks on everything from procedural animation to magical typewriters you can have a drink with the makers in the Site3 space — which, if you haven’t checked out, is pretty sweet (and has been made more so recently by hosting the Torontron).

Also: there was some thorough coverage of our Arcadian Renaissance night at Indie Game Review and the TIFF people did a funny time-lapse of me and Callum hauling the cabinets in over here (If any sequence deserved a draining energy bar…). Nick also got some cam-footage of the Nidhogg tournament from the middle of the action, and Mike got some nice pics too. UPDATE: Check out the RGBFilter vid for some sweet Nidhogg tourney footage!

Awesome there:

Winnitron! Citing the Torontron as its inspiration, some Winnipeg folks are retrofitting a Total Carnage cabinet to play indie games. Four sticks! Also in Winnipeg was the Gr8 Bits show for their Nuit Blanche, video here! Can chiptune Weakerthans covers be far behind?!

The Fantastic Arcade debuted their amazing indie arcade (beating us by one week and two cabinets) of indie games at the Austin TX Fantastic Film Fest last month. Everyday the Same Dream had customized sidepanels. The Envirobear 2000 cab had a trackball set in bear fur. There was a Left4Dead mod set in the bar it was playing in — a kind of site-specific recursion I’ve never seen before. Super-inspiring.

And apparently there’s a new indie happenin’ going on at Montreal International Game Summit: “A one-evening party happening on November 9 (the second and last day of MIGS.) There’ll be live music! And nerdy dancing! We’ll have four or five projectors running games in the main space. The Babycastles guys from New York are helping organize, and are going to be coming up and bringing… something. Videogames? An air of mystery?” Get in touch with Stephen if you want to know more or participate.