TIL that Red Hook is Canadian, which feels crazy because way back in the day I remember funding Darkest Dungeon on Kickstarter just because I thought the art looked cool.

Inside Montreal's Gamerella, the world's longest-running inclusive game jam Co-founder and co-director Gina Hara on addressing the barriers faced by equity-deserving people.

For my next local event feature, I spoke with Gina Hara, the co-founder & co-director of Montreal's Gamerella.
Impressively, it's the world's longest-running inclusive game jam.
Lots of great insight into running these events the past 13 years and knocking down barriers for equity-deserving people!

How often does Ford even leave the GTA?

Love when the GO Train window starts leaking and dripping water all over me 💦

How this Canadian game dev brings together small-town Ontario and Toronto From representing Belleville in RollerGirl to fostering community with Bonus Stage events, Indigo Doyle's work in gaming is especially unique.

For our next spotlight on Canadian game devs doing cool things locally, I had a great chat with @indigodoyle.bsky.social.
From representing small-town Ontario in @rollergirlgame.bsky.social to connecting local Toronto devs at @bonusstageto.bsky.social, I love how Indigo's work fosters community.

How this Canadian game dev brings together small-town Ontario and Toronto From representing Belleville in RollerGirl to fostering community with Bonus Stage events, Indigo Doyle's work in gaming is especially unique.

From representing Belleville in RollerGirl to fostering community with Bonus Stage events, Indigo Doyle's work in gaming is especially unique.

Toronto Games Week June 11-17th, 2026 A picture of the Toronto skyline with clip art sticker-like images. Text at the bottom of the image that says: Tell us about your Toronto based, Toronto made, and favorite Toronto-centric games!

Hey Bluesky, we wanna know, what are you favourite Toronto-made games?
Let us know what we should be checking out in the replies!

A Doritos contest to give away a gaming laptop and PC peripherals. They sent me an RGB keyboard with broken Doritos pieces in it.

Doritos sent me an RGB keyboard with chip crumbs in it for a new promotional campaign. (It literally came like this.)
Certainly one of the strangest mailers I’ve ever gotten lol

How The Long Dark kept surviving the Canadian wild popular for over a decade Vancouver's Hinterland on making the last major story episode and its first-ever sequel, all while staying true to its Canadian identity.

Great chatting with @raphlife.bsky.social from Vancouver's @hinterland.bsky.social about The Long Dark's amazing 10+ year journey.
He discussed how they've maintained the game's popularity, the just-launched Episode 5 and shifting to the sequel, all while staying true to their Canadian identity. 🇨🇦 🎮

Started years ago for me. My once-dependable Roomba hos slowly gotten worse and worse since at least 2023, to the point now where if it goes more than a few feet from the docking station, it freezes up and pings my phone that it is lost. And none of the troubleshooting I've done has fixed it.

Toronto-made North Shore explores the 'beauty and danger' of skating in Canadian nature Ravine Studios co-founders Nick Counter and Dante Camarena on making a skating-focused exploration game that fuses serenity with horror.

Had a great chat with Nick Counter & @mhdante.com of Toronto's @ravinestudios.ca about North Shore, a Canada-set skating exploration game. 🍁
They talked about how the influences of Nick's experiences with Canadian art & nature, fine-tuning the skating mechanics & the unique mix of coziness & horror.

Nearly $800 for a PS5 is insane.

That excellent $40/250GB Freedom deal is back until the end of the month (just in case you haven't switched yet) mobilesyrup.com/2026/03/26/f...

This is great, but I'd argue Nintendo games are still too expensive

Saros is clicking for me in ways that Returnal never did So far, Housemarque is expanding on everything that made Returnal great while making some oh-so welcome tweaks.

I'm so impressed by how well Housemarque has preserved the core challenging gameplay while making it feel just a bit more manageable through tighter run design & more upgrade and modifier options for players.
I regrettably fell off Returnal so I wasn't expecting to love Saros like I have. It rocks!

Me with a statue of Arjun Devraj, the protagonist of Saros played by Rahul Kohli.

The lobby of developer Housemarque in Helsinki, Finland featuring Arjun's armour from Saros.

I had the privilege of visiting Housemarque in Finland to play Saros. While I found Returnal too punishing, I ADORE Saros so far!
It retains the frenetic shooting and haunting atmosphere while making runs more digestible and progression more meaningful.
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Fill out this form to put it on our radar!
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I know Windows gets shit for its bloatware (deservedly so) but I was shocked at how much bloat there is in macOS.

I cannot wait!

Definitely could be a factor, I set my Neo up fresh.

Could it be the memory? I had a fairly solid experience testing the Neo, but I did note some slowdowns when trying to edit images in Photoshop while also having a ton of tabs open in Safari because I was filling the memory.

Begun, the price wars have

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I hope this finally puts an end to the insane $80 connection fees carriers charge.

Marathon only works if you don't play like a Canadian Marathon has the potential to be the next great shooter from Bungie, but if you expect other players to play nice, think again.

We had our old @mobilesyrup.com colleague Chris Brown back to tackle Marathon.
Besides this hilarious headline, I really appreciate his perspective on the shortcomings of the gameplay loop beyond the tight shooting mechanics.
Looking forward to seeing his full review down the line.

Toronto's Cococucumber on the art of the sequel with Echo Generation 2 Co-founder and game director Martin Gauvreau on taking swings with gameplay, listening to feedback and the strength of the local indie scene.

Toronto's @cococucumber.bsky.social is one of my favourite indie devs, so it was a pleasure speaking with them about Echo Generation 2.
We talked about the risks of their first-ever sequel, the evolution of voxel art, the Steam demo response and what makes the Toronto dev community special. 🇨🇦 🎮

Very interested to see how the MacBook Neo performs. Could be a game changed for sub-$1,000 laptops.

Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.

“The Alberta electricity company Capital Power, which is developing a large new AI data centre in the province powered by natural gas, lobbied the federal Mark Carney government dozens of times last year to eliminate clean energy regulations.”

“These regulations were subsequently dropped.”

Mixed feelings about this plan refresh. Freedom made roaming even better -- great for travellers, but not so much for everyone else. And the sorta hidden price hike detracts from the positive changes.

Parents of kids who play video games, do you monitor/help them choose games to play? If so, how? Especially if the games in question aren't ones you're personally familiar with?

Working on a feature! Reposts appreciated! 🙏

The Pixel 10a is here, and I have very mixed feelings about it. I still need to go hands-on with the phone and test it out. But on paper, this is basically just the Pixel 9a.