Millions of geeks crouched even more intently than usual over their keyboards yesterday, awaiting the 6 PM reveal of the trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV on the website of game maker Rock Star Games. They were not disappointed with what they found. The

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“I got a parking ticket this morning and was pretty pissed about it and this game makes me feel happy,” explains a God of War II play-tester in one of the two plus hours of DVD bonus features included with the blockbuster game sequel. “At the end of the

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Keeping in touch with the tradition of hump day , the Sideshow would like to provide a happy ending (or start) to your day for making it to mid-week by providing some well-deserved, hard-core, nobody-asks-any-questions porn news served up with a slap-happy

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To avoid comment on last nights climactic finale of the 3rd season of Battlestar Galactica , I instead offer for your consideration this message of hope from two subversive media freedom fighters based right here in Toronto. Holy War Dance Party is a

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Words indicating that something is good: nasty, sick, wicked, gnarly and ‘the shit.’ Words indicating that something is not good: barfish, rotten, foul, stinky and ‘a turd.’ Do you see the logic? Cause I sure don’t, and that’s why today ‘stinky’ is jumping

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For all those Youtube users out there, look out! My media idol Jeff Zucker over at NBC Universal has linked his horse and pony show up with a number of mega-US content type companies and formed like voltron to create the ultimate competitor to Google's

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The indie music scene can be a notorious boystown, but at this year’s South-by-Southwest music fest, much of the buzz was reserved for a flock of chicks. Sure, the annual indie industry get-together was headlined by the world’s most energetic corpse Iggy

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What do punks running for office in Montreal, Helvetica (the typeface) and people who hate Toronto all have in common? They're all film subjects being featured in this year's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival line-up which will showcase

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I know I’m an expert on Trailer Park Boys , but are you? Well, if you think you’re an expert, please send your name and contact info to… Just kidding! The first episode of the all new, 7th season of Trailer Park Boys will be streaming right here on showcase.ca

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Ever since Dr. Who first stepped into the TARDIS in 1963, people have been obsessed with time travel. Before that they just didn’t care. It’s a little weird, really. But the 40 years since have seen great advancements in time travel theory - and though

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Who better to shake up fashion week in Toronto than drag queen extraordinaire Enza "Supermodel" Anderson . Our traveling Sideshow bandits caught up with the former mayoral candidate and Metro columnist at the Holt Renfrew schmooze party as part of the

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I can do an ollie. But that’s it. Skateboarding has always been my fad. I like it. So mom buys me a banana board . But then I get laughed at. So I forget about it. And then Tony Hawk comes around, and I want to get into it again. But I have no money and

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I spent months kicking myself for not buying a second Wii remote when I bought my Wii. Solo Wii play is just sad, and I really wanted a player two, maybe even a player three and four. So for the past several months, I’ve been hitting up the usual places

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Happy Tuesday, Blogizens! Last summer I caught a kick-ass Canadian zombie flick at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival called Fido . This very same movie is coming out this weekend, and First Weekend Club is doing some awesome promotions to get

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Ever play Every Day Shooter ? What about Roboblitz ? Aquaria ? No, huh? Well, all three won awards, with Aquaria taking the $20,000 grand prize, at last week’s Independent Games Festival. Oh, never heard of that either? Sigh. While indie culture has become

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Good Day Blogorhythms, Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to Alexander Overwijk: Ottawa-based high-school teacher, freehand-circle-drawing-master, and all around awesome dude. He showed up in this YouTube clip in January that has seen over 3 million

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Our good friend Kenny Hotz from Kenny vs. Spenny sent over this disturbing little video on Wednesday, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. It combines the glam-rock 80’s leotard aesthetic seen in last month’s hilarious Body Fusion

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I live inside an electronic music bubble, but rarely do I venture outside the House genre. That said, I am very glad I did this review. My first impression of Amon Tobin’s “The Foley Room” was that it was dark, industrial and dramatic, far from my funky

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Over the years videogames have become hugely complex beasts , but there remains an undying appetite for digital puzzles that distill gaming down to its very essence. Sony may have created that clever PS3 ad showing an exploding Rubik’s Cube , but the

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Currently in the works is a new Shadowrun video game for the PC and XBOX 360 slated for a June 2007 release. This is big news to me because I spent countless hours of my lonely teen years playing the Sega Genesis version , the quintessential cyberpunk

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What seems like an age-old story (charismatic man convinces outcasts to join his cult, move to a foreign country and take part in world's largest mass suicide) comes to modern times thanks to a new documentary on the Jonestown Massacre. Jonestown: The

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Well, not to go on and on about Michel Gondry or anything, but this Monsieur has one-upped his last bout with the Rubik's Cube, you know the one where he solved it with his feet ? The Internet nay-sayer patrol quickly jumped all over the last clip and

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