Zack Kotzer

It didn't take long for pizza to come up. Apparently I had caught Kyle Reimergartin, a Seattle-based game mak…

A woman in a bikini ran towards me, stopped, stood pensively for a few moments, and began to fart. I didn’t k…

Kara Stone has recently taken up gardening. Her floral dependents-Echinacea, sage, and geranium-have only yet…

This article originally appeared in our virtual reality issue. You can order a copy here. The room was cast i…

I thought I saw one of the contestants vomit, but as Wiley Wiggins explained to me, she was just spitting up …

Dean Hall has only killed once in his own video game. The world of , a multiplayer zombie apocalypse survival…

Suzumebachi, a bee-themed bar in Fukuoka, Japan, is known for its poisonous hornet booze. I wanted to try it …

Hannah Epstein wants to get sued. The Toronto artist's latest work is a choose-your-own adventure implanted i…

I visited Miyajima, a funny little island off of the coast of Hiroshima, to wrestle aggressive deer for bags …

One of the first decisions I activated was whether or not I should give Duck a high five. Give Duck a high fi…

When a dove holding an olive branch swooped into Noah's Ark, it was a good omen. I too saw a good omen during…

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a pipe dream. The Athabasca oil sa…

As the lines between games and pop music blur, chiptune icons Anamanaguchi push the genre into the mainstream.

Shorty after 3pm each weekday, kids from two Toronto grade schools hang out at a tiny neighborhood hot-dog jo…

Toronto's last standalone arcade was a nameless corner in the basement of Union Station. It had a solid wall …

Taking a seat in the sidecar conference room of TIFF's Filmmaker's Lounge, members of the press in the first …

Chess is quite a game. The game. Chess is so old and so esteemed it's often used as a point of legitimacy for…

Matsuura has no interest in first-person shooters. The games that make him happy are the ones he calls “inter…

Starcraft turned Chris Loranger ‘s life around. But how long until it's game over?

Andrew Ellem is a fedora and popped collar short of looking like a spy. Waiting for a streetcar in Toronto, w…

As PlayStation and Xbox shed their current husks and begin their new evolutions, the concept of what makes a …