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
Don't Starve has been a favorite for many fans of the survival genre for quite a few years now. Releasing in April 2013, Don't Starve 's awesome art style and unforgiving mechanics made it an unforgettable entry into a genre that's littered with unremarkable carbon copies and games that simply never, ever get finish
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
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
The first piece of advice I can give is to find the town that the expansion is named after. You don't spawn in the Hamlet , and sometimes, it's quite the walk to get there. I've sunk quite a few hours into Hamlet over multiple saves, and in my experience, the town was typically about half an in-game days walk from where I spaw
Permadeath gaming has seen a huge resurgence over recent years. Giving players a single life or character with which to complete the game, games with permanent death as a mechanic are notoriously difficult, tasking players with keeping upmost concentration throughout their playthrough. More often than not, attempts may end in tears – but that won’t stop players from trying their hand once m
If you like living dangerously, then there are plenty of resources readily available to you. There are a variety of Pig Farms around the outside of the Hamlet ripe with food, flowers, and grass. Why earn it if you can just take
Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons was possibly the one standout title to come out of the XBLA this year and hace since made its way onto the PC (and PS3) so you have little excuse to not experience the often underrated Starbreeze Studios g
The Binding of Isaac combines elements of retro top-down shooters such as Smash TV , as well as RPG character building and roguelike random item and level generation. The game tells the story of Isaac, a young boy in an abusive relationship with his monstrous mother . Thrown down into the basement, Isaac awakes to a terrifying world of creatures, and must overcome huge beasts - and his own mother - to esc
Klei Entertainment just last year released one of their most lauded games with the 2D stealth platformer Mark of the Ninja . For some developers that would be enough to satiate their appetite for a few years, but not Klei. Just a little over a year later, they released Don't Star
Playing as Stanley, you find yourself one morning in your office job only to find everyone has vanished. All you have is a path ahead of you and a narrator in your head. Choosing whether to abide or rebel against the voice is up to you, but thanks to the Slg game patch notes's short story structure, you can complete a story line and hop right back in from the beginning compelling you try every possibil
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
Reus has players take charge of four huge elemental avatars, allowing you to terraform an earth and maximize its output to please the population. This is a god game that isn't about imbuing the player with all the power of an omnipotent being. This is a game about how futile that power is in the face of human gr
It hurts being on the other end of it, doesn't it? It turns out you might not be the only thief in town. A masked Pig Thief occasionally pokes around the village, taking what he can before darting back into the shadows. If you're unlucky enough to be his target, you're going to get a rough smack in the face before finding all of your Oincs on the ground. The worst part? The thief isn't going to be the only one grabbing your hard earned cash; every Pig in the vicinity is going to clamber to the free money, leaving you penniless, sad, and at significantly lower health than you were moments bef
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