Great chatting with @raphlife.bsky.social from Vancouver's @hinterland.bsky.social about The Long Dark's amazing 10+ year journey. He discussed how they've maintained the game's popularity, the just-launched Episode 5 and shifting to the sequel, all while staying true to their Canadian identity. 🇨🇦 🎮

The 2026 Canadian Game Awards nominees have been revealed. 🇨🇦 🎮 The GOTY nominees are: -Assassin’s Creed Shadows -Hell is Us -Lost Records: Bloom & Rage -South of Midnight -Wanderstop Other noms include Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Battlefield 6 & Ambrosia Sky. The full list on @mobilesyrup.com:

I know this is not a typical night, but multiple outpost exfils after looting pinwheel, a Cryo archive exfil, more than one spon kit run turned proper loadout, and a bunch of lore items is why I got caught playing Marathon till 2am again Damn this game slaps

Had a great chat with Nick Counter & @mhdante.com of Toronto's @ravinestudios.ca about North Shore, a Canada-set skating exploration game. 🍁 They talked about how the influences of Nick's experiences with Canadian art & nature, fine-tuning the skating mechanics & the unique mix of coziness & horror.

My parents: get a mortgage to buy a house, able to pay it off eventually Me: get a mortgage to pay for PS6, will never financially recover

As a Canadian gamer since… oh god I’m old, it was a pleasure to talk to @jonore.bsky.social about the huge industry we’ve built up here and why it doesn’t get the kudos that our other creative industries do. You’ve played Canadian games and not even known it! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

We love a comment that tries to call out a specific sentence that also ignores literally the next sentence which answers their dumb ass comment

Canadian Netflix subscribers can rest easy, for now. mobilesyrup.com/2026/03/26/n...

Reminder that Epic's last mass layoff was to ensure the business was sustainable, so no further layoffs would be necessary. www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/n...

Sharing more Marathon reading because I'm finding that I love reading about Marathon just as much as I love watching gameplay, with both elements sitting just under actually playing it. This article (and its head) goes in the 'funny cause it's true' box mobilesyrup.com/2026/03/05/m...

Good game, good review

Realizing the best part about Cryo Archive being live isn’t actually getting to play Cryo Archive but looting the players who went into runs with the shit they got from it

FWIW, we have some cool alternative gaming industry events in Canada! @xpgaminginc.bsky.social has events in Toronto and Halifax in May and June, plus MIGS in late 2026. Also in June is @torontogamesweek.com and Edmonton-based Game Con Canada’s inaugural North American Games Industry Summit.

At least the bare minimum was met

So you gonna update the steam page? Or just admit it here and hope everyone forgets in six months?

I still feel this about the OG Radahn fight. I remember being in a review Discord for ER and other journos who got there first saying “just wait till you get to the guy on the little horse” and it did not disappoint. The nerfed fight just feels different imo, the first time I beat him was euphoric

An all-timer.

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

I am biased but I would love to be able to walk to SGF, Keighley is even from Toronto like come on man

Hey! All of you playing Marathon, share with me one (or more) cool stories that you have experienced while playing the game. Try to keep them short (one post per story, please) and know that I might end up using them in a blog. Thanks! (Sharing this post is appreciated!)

Are you a game developer who wants to share some words, good or bad, with Kotaku about DLSS5? Well, DM me! Or shoot me an email via [email protected] Indie dev/AAA dev/former dev/hobby dev/etc I don't care. If you make games and have opinions on DLSS 5 let me know.

My guess is this is her in disguise going to a conspirator meeting, but who knows, Denis has already changed a bunch of stuff I’m expecting the biggest changes in this film

Can't wait for people who didn't read the books/haven't caught on in the films to be 'surprised' to learn Muad'Dib fucking sucks

If there was a Polymarket for "comments guaranteed to appear first from people who didn't read/are the exact problem the article discusses" then there would be a lot of actually rich game journalists

The best advice for anyone thinking of playing Marathon (which you should def do cause it's cool af) wccftech.com/how-to/marat...

If Bungie is smart, there will be several Marathon games and they will not all be extraction shooters

Yes, I've been loving Marathon. No, I have not been sleeping. Yes, I will continue to not sleep and play Marathon. wccftech.com/review/marat...

This has to be some kind of vindication for @localthunk.com wccftech.com/games-with-l...

More than anything, what tells me I’m Marathon-pilled is the fact that since I started playing hockey again over two years ago, it’s the first game that made me think about skipping the weekly game to stay home and play. Even now, at the rink, about to get on the ice, I can’t stop thinking about it

This is one of the most “tell me you don’t understand how your own brain works without telling me” quotes from the GenAI crowd yet

I cannot stop thinking about Marathon: aftermath.site/marathon-bungi...

If it wasn't for Tage Thompson it would be so easy to root for the Sabres this year, than game against San Jose was wild

Im in awe of Brad`s writing and how well he encapsulated my words. I was all over the place during the interview, switching from one thought to another and yet he kept up and wrote it so meaningfully. I am so touched! thank you @bradshankar.bsky.social mobilesyrup.com/2026/03/05/n...

You're complaining about Marathon because some idiots on Twitter told you to, I'm writing about ARC Raiders while listening to the Marathon soundtrack (and thinking about playing Marathon later) - we are not the same

Got caught playing Marathon past midnight again so did the 'one more run' thing - killed a warden with some randos, got some loot I'd never seen before, and ended up ditching my teammates and hitting the exfil without them cause we would've died to the timer if I stayed with them...I regret nothing

I can’t tell you how much it means to me that Brad is shouting me out here, which is why I have to once again say: Brad Shankar is the best of Canada’s current suite of games media. He tirelessly works to uplift the games industry here and is an exceptional writer

Nothing tells me Marathon has the PvP sauce like some guy telling me to kms after taking him down cause he activated his ult making us both invisible and cause he couldn’t see how close I was I just punched him to death

Really thought I was gonna love the Thief shell the most and have my love for grapple hooks find a new home in Marathon after I stopped playing Apex, but fights this might actually be more fun

Imagine you're working on a game and you told your boss about multiple issues repeatedly only to be ignored and told to work on things that didn't matter but they cared about. Then when the game came out and bombed for all the reasons you foresaw, when your boss lays you off, he blames 'espionage'

Panthers lost, Sens lost (off a dumb penalty from their tool of a captain) and the Avs won - yes, things are looking pretty shit for the Buds, but I'll take my wins around the league where I can get them

This is just 'Game to Make Dog Owners Cry' coming to Nintendo Switch 2

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI aftermath.site/gameshub-click...

I've had 90s action movies on the mind for the past week, but not because I've been watching a bunch of them, because last week I checked out Samson: A Tyndalston Story from Liquid Swords, a AA, "intensity over scale" 90s-era action game wccftech.com/samson-a-tyn...

Cool, but this is also right on time to try and distract people from the major studio closure that happened *checks notes* five days ago.

As promised, my list of recommended Steam Next Fest demos is here! Thank you to all the PR peeps who sent me a demo to check out ahead of the fest; it really helped me get organized so I could have this list up asap. wccftech.com/steam-next-f...

The first Steam Next Fest of 2026 will kick off in a few hours, and while I'll have a list of demos to check out coming tomorrow, one game I got to play ahead of the festival is ZA/UM's Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. wccftech.com/zero-parades...

Well that was depressing. Hellybuck stole that win for them, we just couldn’t finish. Love our guys so much, they were the better team all the way. 🇨🇦

Alright, with the Women's tourny done, a PSA for my US friends: I have no prob with ya'll celebrating this win, the Women's teams have class players on both sides and I get you're rooting for your home country But I will absolutely judge you for supporting the Tchukclefucks if we meet on Sunday

That's heartbreaking. So much love for the Canadian Women's team, they absolutely played their hearts out. MPP deserved to go out with gold

You are not going to make the next Fortnite or Overwatch or Destiny or Apex Legends. You are going to make the next game that is going to get crushed by Fortnite and Overwatch and Destiny and Apex Legends. The next footnote. You will waste hundreds of millions of dollars to be publicly humiliated.