The human being reacts to emotional stimuli, the easiest way to trigger such a reaction is between two beings. Gathering, celebrating, eating, lazing about just looking at something on the wall. For causes or for nothing, we’ll go anywhere for ...Read More
Photos by King Frankenstein Back in May, Offworld editor Brandon Boyer told a packed bar full of starry eyed nerds that, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Toronto is the city that all game dorks envy.” Landing somewhere in between smug, flattered and ...Read More
Getting off the bus, we were pinned in between the sign that said ‘Welcome to Toronto’ and another that said ‘Welcome to Markham.’ Across the intersection’s two cold crosswalks was a mall. Now I know, Toronto has plenty malls. Dufferin, ...Read More
Photo by KF/SB Much of the nerd lifestyle has been co-opted, sadly. Either as chic or genuinely popular, comics to video games are as common in social culture as big pizzas, rock songs and weed. However, if I was to single ...Read More
I told the kid manning his post. My right arm leaning on the table, elbow pressing into a flakey laminated sale flyer. The kid twirled a pen in his jaw, eyes fished by the ending light of the display ...Read More
I have a confession to make. Wait did I already start an article that way? Whatever shame makes for a decent opener. So I’ve been a baaAAaad nerd, it’s goddamn Dexter season two all over again. I miss one small ...Read More
Fear is a funny stupid thing. Most spinetinglers should logically be trumped by logic, but no matter how many monsters you try to debunk or sounds you try to explain there’s always some shadow looming over you that just unsettles ...Read More
Can I be perfectly sincere for a moment? Is... is multiplayer gaming, despite being more technically competent than ever, dying? I remember inviting everyone over for Goldeneye, or hitting the Playdium for House of The Dead 2 on time card ...Read More
Is the movie-going experience leaving you dry nowadays? Are the films too full of themselves, too pristine and artificial? Are the theatres you see them in too uncaring? Is there no heart at the concession stand, where some gangly apathetic ...Read More
