WordPlay Fest Pics and Showcase Links
On Saturday we had over 200 people attend the inaugural WordPlay Festival of Writerly Games. The Toronto Reference Library was an amazing venue -- where better to celebrate games with a [...]
WordPlay Schedule, Announcements, a Brick Sandwich
Coincidentally, WordPlay is happening the day after the Playstation 4 release. Unlike the latest-and-greatest console, our festival of writerly games features more polysyllables than polygons. We have recently confirmed that Miguel [...]
Gamercamp Starts This Friday!
Jaime Woo from Gamercamp writes: Gamercamp is celebrating its fifth year (!!!) and it's going all out! First, there are three awesome visiting guest speakers coming in from Vancouver, Quebec City, [...]
Free Copies of Kentucky Route Zero
As you know from our previous announcements, one of the exciting formats we're trying with the writerly games WordPlay Festival on Sat. Nov 16th is a book club-style discussion of the magical [...]
A Live Video Game Comedy Show
Stephanie writes: It’s an all-out melee as Toronto’s finest comedians take on their favourite video games -- both classic & current -- LIVE on the Comedy Bar stage. This unique show [...]
Calling All Journos! Your Society Needs You!
Excited about reporting on Toronto's game culture? Want to tell stories related to the community, got opinions on the scene? Whether you're a writer or photographer, videographer or VJ, the Hand [...]
Know a Game Curious Person?
We have a new Hand Eye Society program called Game Curious? that starts on October 5th, a week Saturday. It's a free weekly discussion/play group of the untapped art of videogames [...]