It would be hard to find someone who isn’t familiar with the iconic, best-selling first-person shooter game, Call of Duty (COD). With 19 different games released since the beginning of the franchise in 2003, COD is available on nearly every gaming platform there...
Nostalgia and the niche 2021 Neopets presence
Anyone who spent enough time on the Internet in the 2000s was probably familiar with the groundbreaking multiplayer online game, Neopets. Started in 1999 by an independent media company, the virtual pet website built enough hype to be bought out by Viacom for $160...
How to keep your job when robots take over
Automation and artificial intelligence is already changing the workplace. There's self-checkout in grocery stores, self-driving cars, and robots in Amazon warehouses. It can feel uncertain entering the job market in the 2020s when you’re not sure if your job will...
Small business reaches international customers through TikTok
Starting a business at any given time is hard, but adding a pandemic to that doesn’t make it any easier. Charlize Murray, a small business owner, has turned to TikTok to help get her cosmetic business off the ground. “Honestly, overall, [out of any] advertising app,...
Talk Nerdy to Me: Good ol’ fashioned pinball
It’s the bright lights and the sounds of metallic bells dinging that takes me back to when I was a kid, asking my parents for a quarter to play pinball at the Red Robin on 50th Street in north Edmonton. I consider myself lucky to be able to revisit that memory in my...
Advancements of VR: What we can expect for the future
Since the first release of the oculus rift in 2012, VR has seen some significant improvements with the new release of the valve index. What used to be a sit in your chair and look around experience is now getting ever so closer to a full body experience. So here are...
Alberta’s COVID-19 contact tracing app first of its kind in Canada
The provincial government released its contact tracing app “ABTraceTogether” earlier this month, making Alberta the first Canadian province to implement a tracing application for COVID-19 cases. The app is a new method of COVID-19 containment that digitally traces who...
D&D&Q&C: Dungeons, dragons, quarantine and connection
While a large portion of the world is self-isolating due to COVID-19, people are looking into starting new hobbies or skills to help pass the time. Whether it’s doing home workouts regularly or simply calling “bingeing Netflix” a sport, we are all trying to find new...
Conspiracy corner: Was COVID-19 created in a lab?
I have been saying it for years now people, and it's finally happened. It's obvious, the secret lizard government is behind it all. I’m talking about the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic of course. I mean, what sounds more believable? That this whole thing just sprang...
My dream life: Why Animal Crossing is so popular right now
It’s New Year’s Eve, 2003. I hop out of the family minivan and run inside, clutching my new GameCube game in my hands. I know little else about the game other than there are cute animals on the cover and that I can play it on the console I got for Christmas a...










