The Bi-weekly Gamer: Rebuilding the systemAfter the end of the spring League of Legends (LoL) Championship Series (LCS) split, LoL developer Riot Games decided that it was time to bring some changes to the system. After every split, Riot tends to shift the rules and format of the LCS slightly. Sometimes it’s larger changes (changing the total number of teams) […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The dog days of André Alexis“Artists make language vague so that someone can enter into it,” said André Alexis, winner of the 2015 Giller prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs. Alexis spent most of his life in Toronto but was born in Trinidad. Like many immigrant children, he was always conscious of being different, especially when it came to language. […] Continue Reading |
Of the Land – local indigenous voices: Our land’s first peoplesHello, hello; we have lots to say, many stories to tell, and much of our wisdom to pass your way. Too much to tell for our first issue. We are a small group of aboriginal writers who want to share some of our culture and give voices to our people who want to speak. It […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: The fall of World of WarcraftOne of the most famous video games of all time, World of Warcraft, has stood at the top of the MMO charts for nearly 10 years. However, it has recently become one of the most boring and tedious games to play. With outdated graphics, controls, and combat, and with the developers adding in new expansions […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The truths and lies of Julian BarnesJulian Barnes is an English novelist known for his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters. Barnes studied at Oxford University, but because of mediocre grades he ended up writing word definitions for the Oxford English Dictionary instead of pursuing academia. He spent three years “in the letters c to g,” […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: The Lobster best served with butter and perseveranceThe Lobster 3/5 “Now, the fact that you’ll turn into an animal if you fail to fall in love with somebody during your stay [at the hotel] is not something that should upset you, or get you down.” These are words spoken by the hotel manager to David (played by Colin Farrell) in The Lobster […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: The legacy left behindEvery sports fan has their favourite player. Carlos “ocelote” Rodríguez Santiago may not be my favourite in terms of skill, but he is one player who I look up to for all he has done so far in his career. Originally known in the MMO World of Warcraft, Santiago made the permanent switch to League […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The Moomintrolls of Tove Jansson“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes, and dream!” said the ever-whimsical Moomintroll, hero of Finnish author Tove Jansson’s beloved series of children’s books. Jansson, who was well known as a painter and an illustrator as well as an author, won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for her imaginative and wistful stories. […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Returning to the throneFilling the shoes of anyone in any job is hard. When you are set to replace all-star mid laner Enrique Cedeño Martinez (xPeke, now retired), it’s more daunting than ever imagined. Luckily for League of Legends team Fnatic, great scouting and coaching produced one of the most underrated mid laners to come out of Europe […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The storied truths of Tom King“The truth about stories is, that’s all we are,” wrote Thomas King, a Canadian novelist, essayist, and native-rights activist who uses humour as often as he uses polemic to bring awareness to the sociopolitical and historical context of native peoples in North America. King grew up in California, the son of a Cherokee father and […] Continue Reading |
