Gaming
Canadian studios and the games industry.
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Bored of Wordle? Toronto-made Dayzle serves five puzzles a day, free
Dayzle mixes Sudoku and a Wordle-style game with new logic puzzles, ranks everyone on daily leaderboards, and keeps ads out of the daily set.
- Daily Briefing
Microsoft 365 is still down, Nvidia's fall hits Canadian pensions, and a deepfake network
Day two of the Microsoft outage, what Huang's exit means for Canadian investors and Cohere, a McGill study on stolen faces, and HomeView launches.
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Ocarina of Time sold 5.2 million copies in four days, and the PS5 just passed 100 million
Nintendo's Switch 2 remake set a record for its own games, while Sony crossed a console milestone the same week. Here are the numbers, and what the game costs here.
- Daily Briefing
Xplore files for creditor protection, Canada signs a Paris AI pledge, and Sony kills Fairgames
Rural ISP Xplore enters CCAA, Ottawa joins an AI safety declaration, Montreal's Fairgames is cancelled, plus patches to install and Pixel Tag in Canada.
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GTA 6 preloads opened nine days early. How to start yours in Canada, and what it costs
Pre-loading is live on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. It's up to 212 GB, the game costs $109.99 here, and Xbox One owners can stream it.
- Daily Briefing
Apple faces a B.C. class action, Ottawa's $25B fund gets a CEO, and GTA 6 preloads
A B.C. court lets a search-ad class action against Apple proceed, the Canada Strong Fund gets a CEO, Brampton's plant goes to Roshel, and an SSH bug to patch.
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Ocarina of Time is out today. Here's what the reviews say, and what's new
Critics mostly love Nintendo's Switch 2 remake of the 1998 classic. You can finally jump whenever you want, and the Water Temple is less of a maze. $84.99 in Canada.
- Daily Briefing
Budget day, AMD's $2.9-billion Taalas price tag, and a $20-million phone scam in Edmonton
The federal budget lands at 4 p.m., AMD prices its Toronto chip deal, Gemini starts shopping for Canadians, Unifor targets Amazon, and Edmonton police bust a phone scam.
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Zelda: Ocarina of Time returns Thursday: $84.99 in Canada, and midnight launches at nine Best Buys
Nintendo's Switch 2 remake of the 1998 classic is out Nov. 5. Here's the Canadian price, where to line up, and Google's retro easter egg.
- Daily Briefing
Canada joins Europe's supercomputers, Carney on Starlink, and the FBI names Binance's hackers
Canada gets access to Europe's supercomputers, Carney warns about relying on Starlink, the FBI blames North Korea for the Binance theft, and smart clocks miss the time change.
- Daily Briefing
Midweek roundup: a touchscreen Mac, a $13.8-billion Wealthsimple, and ChatGPT's favourite newsroom
The week so far in Canadian tech, five stories we haven't covered yet, and the odd and funny bits worth knowing about.
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GTA 6 is reportedly a 210 GB download. Here's how long that takes on Canadian internet
Even the boxed copy is just a download code in Canada. On a 50 Mbps connection, you're looking at more than nine hours. Pre-loading starts Nov. 12.
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Sony's PlayStation problem: discs, jailbreaks and a trust gap
Profits are up, but a month of hacks, firmware lockouts, account takeovers and the end of discs has PlayStation fans asking what they actually own. Here's what's going on, and what it means in Canada.
- Daily Briefing
BioWare closes, Rogers adds a credit card fee, and Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion
The week in Canadian tech: EA shuts its Edmonton studio, Rogers bills get a 1.6% card fee, Ottawa details its VC money and proposes stablecoin rules.
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NDP leader Avi Lewis says BioWare's developers should get to buy their studio
After EA shut the Edmonton studio, Lewis called for federal support to help its workers take it over. Ottawa has been quiet.
- Daily Briefing
BioWare closes, PHP flaws take government sites offline, and telecom complaints jump 79%
EA shuts BioWare, a PHP security scare, a record year for CCTS complaints, Rogers' new card fee, the Crime Stoppers leak and Hive's raise.
- Daily Briefing
Waymo picks Toronto, iPhone Duo orders slip to January, and EV sales hit a 2026 high
Waymo's 2028 Toronto plan, Canadian iPhone Duo pricing and delays, Apple Watch hypertension alerts, Nintendo's Toronto store and EV sales.
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Nintendo opens its first North American store-within-a-store, in Toronto
A 1,500-square-foot Nintendo space opens Oct. 17 inside the EB Games flagship on Yonge Street.
- Daily Briefing
Spyware hidden in ads, Cohere buys a security startup, and a spy agency data centre
Citizen Lab's AdFection findings, Cohere's deal for Aisle, CSE's planned data centre, a holiday scam warning and VGLX.
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VGLX wants to give Canada the video game convention it's missing
Canada makes plenty of games but has no PAX or Gamescom. The second VGLX runs Oct. 24-25 in Mississauga, with tickets from $20.
- Daily Briefing
Koho says no to prediction markets, Geely is coming to Canada, and a Switch 2 deal
A short holiday-weekend briefing: Koho's CEO on why it won't add betting-style markets, Geely's 2027 Canadian launch, and a Costco clearance.
