West Coast Geeks Versus Nerds
November 17, 2013
In the Electric Owl, one of Main Street’s trendiest concert venues – where cool bands often play to the hip folk of Vancouver – I’ve somehow managed to find myself
Garin Fahlman
A Bar, a Beer, and a Barbarian – A Year of The Storm Crow
October 24, 2013
Inside one of the most popular bars in Vancouver, there’s no sports games playing on the TVs. There’s no top 40 playing over the speakers. If you walked in during
Bosnian Rainbows’ Collective Talent Lights Up The Biltmore
September 19, 2013
Being a major force in an iconic band is probably pretty great all around, but the curse is that it can be difficult to convince your fans to let you
Kickstarter Controversy Causes Trouble For Vancouver Game Studio
September 10, 2013
Funding a Kickstarter is never a sure thing, but it’s safe to say that once your project gets funded, it’s only a matter of time until the champagne is broken
Victory Square Games Finds Adventure On The Ouya
August 29, 2013
To anyone who’s grown up gaming in the nineties, point-and-click adventure games are as iconic as Super Mario Bros. Companies like LucasArts and Sierra produced classics like The Secret of
Listen With Your Eyes
April 29, 2013
Maps & Atlases is a band that debuted as a schizophrenic math-rock group, but has slowly been trying to marry their tapping guitars with the melodic structures of folk songs.
Dang! It’s Raw, Futuristic Surf Rock!
April 25, 2013
Schizophrenic rock trio Tera Melos has a reputation of making wild, explosive music with an unchained creativity that makes them hardly accessible but hardly forgettable. In 2010, the band restructured,
Full Indie Summit
April 25, 2013
Full Indie is an organization that originally supported independent game developers in Vancouver through meetups where indies have the chance to bring their projects and show them off to others,
Hackathon
March 23, 2013
There’s a commonly held conception of hackers, computer scientists, and software designers that often involves them stealing your bank info, or being responsible for stuff you’d see in WarGames. To
The Return of Sirius
February 25, 2013
Coheed and Cambria‘s latest album, The Afterman: Descension, part two of a double album that was recorded as one early last year, has now been released to listeners less than
From Ascension to Descension
February 22, 2013
Usually, long-haired figures in rainy back alleys are people you should avoid. But sometimes, they happen to just be the lead singers of popular rock bands. Walking up to them
Full Indie on a Winter’s Evening
January 3, 2013
It’s a cold December night in Vancouver, and I’m sitting with Kimberly Voll, Alex Vostrov, Alain Bourdages, and Ola Rogula in a small Yaletown apartment. The five of us are
