It was a pleasure to meet freelance games artist Loukia Kyriakidou at MIGS this year. She was able to sit with me before her chat at the show, entitled “What a Hero Looks Like: An Exploration of Bodily Prejudices in Games,” and share her history, passions and ideas on better representation.Loukia is a fascinating person …

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One of the great features of The Montreal International Games Summit is the conferences and expert speakers that come every year to share their knowledge. Topics range from dissecting the look and feel of a particular game to innovations on Ray Tracing to enhance the capabilities of graphics presentation in gaming and beyond.The conferences were …

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By far the biggest event for me at PAX East this year was a chance to be one of the first in the world to see the gameplay reveal of the upcoming game Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian Studios.  The team behind the fantastic Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 chose to showcase the first …

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While MIGS, the Montreal International Game Summit, is a conference very focused on networking and developers, there is a pretty large show floor too, showcasing mainly independent games.Over the two days of the event I had a chance to walk around, meet a lot of developers, and try games of all varieties. It was refreshing …

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