The nominations are in and the finalists have been officially selected for the 2013 Canadian Videogame Awards. This year, the fifth for the relatively young award ceremony, is quite a bit different. Reboot Communications and EP Media are moving the show this year from Vancouver FanExpo, where it's traditionally been held, to Toronto but recently delayed the production to the fall where the 2013 awards will be announced alongside (but separately from) the 2014 awards as w
It's a lovely day to go for a walk through the forest. The dark night has given way to a clear morning and I've been toiling over the fire to cook up food and spending a little time with the alchemy engine to get a shopping list of parts, because keeping busy is a good way to preserve sanity while waiting for the dawn to come. Charcoal for a boomerang, spider web for a bug net, spider organs and ash for healing salve, and general scavenging to keep food supplies from draining too low will fill up the new day nicely.
The 2014 show will include 2013 and 2014 made games to be awarded separately, based on the nomination year, in one ceremony. Information on 2014 nominations will be released in June while the votes for the 2013 winners must be submitted by April 21st. The award ceremony takes place November 21, 2014 at the Carlu in the heart of downtown Toro
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Although some may find the text-based graphical style a little awkward, the title’s addictive gameplay has given Dwarf Fortress a cult following. The SLG Game heroes’s defining feature, however, is its brutal difficulty; whether choosing Fortress Mode or Adventure Mode, the player will eventually succumb to the goblin hordes, leaving their fortress in tatt
The 2013 finalists for the Canadian Videogame Awards span seventeen categories and include 29 games, narrowed down from 75 nominated titles. To qualify titles, at least in part, must be developed in Canada. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag leads the pack this year with an impressive 12 nominations. Last year's show saw Far Cry 3 take him the most awards , including Game of The Y
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Working as a border control officer of the glorious communist state of Arstotzka, your job is to approve the passage of civilians across the country's borders. An ever complicated political situation and a growing list of paperwork to check mean the game's difficulty is gradual but also punish
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