Reading Time: 2 minutesThe uOttawa Esports Club, in collaboration with professor Thomas Burelli and the Brian Dickson Law Library, will be hosting a week of open play, coaching sessions and presentations — all about gaming!
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Critics didn’t like this movie, but it wasn’t made for them. If you’re not already a fan of the games, as the Fulcrum previously discussed, I don’t think this film’s going to turn you.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhy do directors insist on portraying the average high school boy to be a beard-clad thirty-year-old man?
Reading Time: 4 minutesTruthfully, who doesn’t love video games?
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Time flies when you’re having fun, and streaming on Twitch is probably the most fun thing I can think of,” says the Fulcrum’s sports editor, Jasmine McKnight.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt can be hard to become second fiddle to your partner’s Xbox.
Reading Time: 2 minutesU of O students have reacted favourably to the event, with many seeing it as a welcome development from a campus with a reputation for being dull.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile you wait to get your hands on an NES Classic, why not dive into the rich, strange history of some of your favourite Nintendo characters?
Reading Time: 3 minutesGot a three-hour break between classes and want to play some Street Fighter? Caffeine 1UP, Ottawa’s newest gaming café, has got you covered!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis past Thursday, professional gamer Stephanie Harvey sat down with some University of Ottawa students to talk game development, professional gaming, and bullying in the video game community.
Reading Time: 6 minutesOne has to wonder if Pokémon GO will be just another trending topic over social media or if it will have a potentially long-term impact?
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents of all ages spend a lot of time unwinding after class by playing video games. Kelsey Schmitz, a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, believes these video games have a place inside the classroom as well.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGoing forward, gamers need to move away from this old idea that the media and government are out to get them. All this does is breed paranoia and mistrust that inevitably leads to hatred, threats, and online harassment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNow that Pewdiepie—the most popular face of the website—has taken such a public stand against vile trolling, perhaps YouTube will eventually revise its methods and figure out a way to weed out the trolls without suppressing constructive dialogue.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’d been looking forward to it, sure, but I forgot all about it until I got a surprise call from the local game store to inform me that my pre-ordered copy had come in. This is something that should have been great news, but instead it felt like a call from a girl I’d gone out with and never called back.
Reading Time: 4 minutesBut what made it into what it is? Why is it, a Game Boy Color game, rarer and more valuable than any of the original Game Boy games which have age on their side? The answer is simply an unfortunate circumstance.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s been a long time since I’ve been drawn into a game the same way I have been by Ni No Kuni.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA visual arts student from the U of O competed at this year’s Global Game Jam annual 48-hour gaming challenge.
Reading Time: 2 minutes New study shows correlation between video games and weight gain Chaput and his collaborators invited 22 healthy, normal-weight boys between ages 15 and 19 into the lab. The night before the experiment, the boys were instructed not to eat. They …
