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Helene and I have arrived safe and sound in Edmonton, where we’re now busy getting settled in. Our cat, Xishi, had the toughest week of all of us, given that she spent a whole day terrified as movers took away ...
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I love you, WoW, but I need to play other games
If you’ve been following my blog, or have had any insight at all into my personal life, you kn...
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Weird stuff I’ve eaten
With the arrival of the Olympics, it seems like every journalist is busy scouring the hutongs of Bei...
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Where the hell have I been?
I’m back with a new blog! Given that I promised I’d create one more than a year ago, I&#...
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The Dark Knight: Not the Best Superhero Movie Ever
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is not the best superhero movie ever. The good superhero m...
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Call of Duty: Back to World War Two? Really?
I was originally reticent to pick up Call of Duty 4. I felt giving the cinematic shooter a modern se...
O Katamari, Our Love is Gone
You can say I’ve been with Katamari Damacy since Day One. It first showed up on my radar in March of 2004, when it became something of an underground hit sensation at Ubisoft Shanghai, no doubt having been discovered by ...
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Back in Hang Time
Well, here we are, Helene and I. Back in hang time. “Hang time” refers to the moment, in many types of sports, when the athlete seems to be hanging in the air, in a perfect moment of weightlessness. The weightlessness ...
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Ubisoft Moments (3/3)
As today is my last day at Ubisoft, here is my final reminiscing about the early years of my employment with the company… In December 2005, Splinter Cell Double Agent X360 was in a dire situation. It was the first ...
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Ubisoft Moments (2/3)
After I finished Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, I was eager to move on to a management position, given that that’s what I had been doing prior to joining Ubisoft. I felt fine doing level design, but I had no experience ...
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