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Last week, Ubisoft Toronto held an incredibly cool event for Star Wars Outlaws. We got a deep dive into how the Toronto-based narrative team conceives a scene and then how Canadian star Humberly González and her fellow performers act it out and the Toronto, Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio and other development teams digitally bring it all to life in the game. The gaming industry is notoriously pretty secretive, so it was great to have this special behind-the-scenes look. It really makes you better appreciate how complicated games are to make! A lot of people also don’t realize that Ubisoft Toronto and Ubisoft Montréal have the two main performance capture studios for all of Ubisoft, so that means they contribute to every game the company puts out, especially Star Wars Outlaws. It's awesome to see industry-leading work being done here in Canada, and for Star Wars, no less! 🇨🇦 🎮
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Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ottawa-based psychologist, author and researcher Rachel Kowert at the Serious Play Conference at UTM and sitting in on her big keynote. Really appreciate her great insight into unpacking common misconceptions surrounding the "harm" of video games and how they're actually making us "smarter, happier, kinder and more legendary." Whether it's improving moods, offering educational tools or boosting the economy, games have an incredible impact across the board. At the same time, there's a lot of toxicity surrounding gaming, especially in recent months, so we dig into all of that as well. It's helpful to hear about what we should all do to combat that, both personally and as an industry, and hopefully, more people will begin to do so. I learned a lot from this (and hopefully others will, too), so huge thank you to Dr. Kowert for her time!
Examining the positive and negative sides of gaming with Dr. Rachel Kowert
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Earlier this month, I travelled to California for a big Ubisoft Star Wars Outlaws preview event. After playing the game for nearly five hours, I've come away really impressed with how it's all coming together. But what I love most of all about Outlaws is the role that Canadians have played in making it. While many know that the lead developer is The Division maker Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio, few are aware that much of the narrative team for the game works out of Ubisoft Toronto! With that in mind, I had a wonderful chat with star Humberly González (Kay Vess herself) and UbiTO lead writer Nikki Foy. It's always nice connecting with fellow Canadians on these international gaming trips (there aren't often many of us there!), and it was especially great to hear from Humberly and Nikki about the experience of working on a big open-world Star Wars game in Canada. 🇨🇦 🎮 Such a fun interview!
Chatting with two of the key Canadians behind Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws
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For my latest Canadian developer interview, I spoke with Philippe Morin, co-founder of Montreal's Red Barrels, about The Outlast Trials and its big new Project Lupara update. We had an insightful chat about pivoting to early access & live service, constantly exploring new flavours of horror & the importance of Canadian-owned IP! 🇨🇦 🎮
Montreal's Red Barrels on the evolution of The Outlast Trials, creating Canadian-owned IP
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I had the great pleasure of interviewing the wonderful Ben Starr, the lead of Final Fantasy XVI and the upcoming Warframe: 1999. We had a really fun chat about joining Warframe and its massive community, the lovely folks at London, Ontario’s Digital Extremes, Toronto Pearson Airport, Tim Hortons and more. Final Fantasy is what made me want to cover games, so to get to interview the star of the latest mainline FF game for work was a real privilege!
Final Fantasy's Ben Starr on joining Warframe, '90s nostalgia and Tim Hortons
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Last weekend, I attended my first-ever TennoCon, and it was unlike anything I've ever seen. In just a brief time, I've become truly in awe of Warframe and the massive global community that London, Ontario's own Digital Extremes has fostered over more than a decade. Sizeable gaming events focused on a single title really are quite rare, so it speaks to the popularity of Warframe that thousands of fans from around the world head to southwestern Ontario every year to celebrate it. I also had the pleasure of chatting with DE's Megan Everett (Warframe's director of community and live ops) and Final Fantasy XVI's Ben Starr (who plays Arthur in the big Warframe: 1999 update) to learn more about what goes into all of this. So inspiring to see such a great Canadian success story, and I really think a lot of companies can learn from what DE has done with Warframe! 🇨🇦 🎮
How a London, Ontario game maker has taken the world by storm
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For years now, I've been calling for more consumer video game events in Canada. While we've had a couple over the years, they've generally either fizzled out (like EGLX) or simply de-emphasized gaming (like Fan Expo). With that in mind, it was a pleasure chatting with Prakash Amarasooriya, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Kashamara Productions. On top of successful Canadian Dragon Ball anime concerts, he's already helped bring concerts for the likes of Stardew Valley and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (my favourite game!) to Canada. He also has other events in the works alongside broader plans to expand Kashamara's types of gaming programming. The fact that Kashamara is just a one-man operation makes it all the more impressive. I love the work that he's doing and I hope more companies take note!
How a one-man company is bringing more gaming and anime events to Canada
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Last week, I traveled to PlayStation’s global HQ in San Mateo to play Concord, a new online 5v5 multiplayer shooter, and speak to developer Firewalk Studios . I’m not normally into live service games, but I ended up enjoying the experience a lot more than I expected, particularly for its approachability. My full preview is live on MobileSyrup!
I'm not a multiplayer guy, but Concord made a decent first impression
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At Ubisoft Forward in LA, I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Mathias Karlson, game director at Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio, and Navid Khavari, narrative director at Ubisoft Toronto, about Star Wars Outlaws. We talked about offering unique twists on Star Wars archetypes, balancing fan service, the approach to open-world design & their Sweden-Canada partnership. Especially loved hearing from Navid about the impact Canadians have had on the game! 🇨🇦 🎮 "There's absolutely just a huge wellspring of talent from Canada that's been contributing to the game and giving some of that Canadian spirit and flavour." After speaking with them and playing Outlaws for an hour, I can't wait for August!
Ubisoft Massive and Toronto directors on the making of Star Wars Outlaws
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