Ep 208 - UNIONIZE BIOWARE (Stephan Named This One)

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Overview:

This week Steve and Stephan dive into a month's worth of Canadian gaming news including an exciting union drive from BioWare Edmonton's contract workers, entirely single-player survival game The Long Dark is adopting a season pass model to fund future development and much more interesting stories!

Listen Here:

EVENTS:

• Submit for Hand Eye Society Super FESTival

• Grant Writing for Creatives (May 11, 2022 @ 6PM EST)

  • “learning how to write grants for your game projects”

• Games Writing Working Group May[Online] (Thu MAY 5 @ 6:30pm EST)

  • “This low-key online social is specifically geared towards writers who want to work together in a virtual space.”

• TOJam 2022: All Twogether Now (May 13 to 15)

  • “while it is the 'Toronto' game jam, since we're doing things virtually this year you don't actually need to be in Toronto to join”

JOBS:

Here are all the game dev jobs we’re currently advertising on the site!

• Kixeye: Devs, Leads, VP & More (Canada remote or at office in Victoria, BC)

NEW GAMING STUFF:

RELEASES:

• Québec: Next Star System Releases on iOS

• Saskatoon, SK: Kaiju Wars

• Toronto, ON: NOW LEFT!!! Rogue Legacy 2 Leaving Early Access, Gets Animated Release Date Trailer

• Toronto, ON: LOFTY QUEST out now

• Vancouver, BC: Peglin is finally out!

UPDATES:

• Vancouver, BC: Dauntless Reach of Radiance Update Out Now

PORTS:

• PEI (Solo dev now living in Japan): Cardful Planning Releases on Switch

• Vancouver, BC & Regina, SK: Boreal Tenebrae (Boreal Tales) comes to Xbox and Switch
  

CANADIAN GAMING NEWS:

• Edmonton, AB: Keywords staff at BioWare Edmonton look to unionize

• Edmonton, AB: Crimson Herring Announces Steam Playtest for Sovereign Syndicate

• Guelph, ON: Lillymo Games Announces Super Perils of Baking, an ode to SNES-era platformers, and it comes to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on June 3

• Toronto, ON: Drinkbox Studios Releasing Nobody Saves The World On PlayStation and Switch This Month

• Toronto, ON: Tea-Making Simulator With Cats Pekoe Gameplay Video

• Toronto, ON: Behaviour Interactive opens first studio in Toronto

• Vancouver, BC: Hardspace: Shipbreaker breaks out of early access next month and comes to GamePass

• Vancouver, BC: The Long Dark's first paid content will drop later this year and follow a "season-pass type approach"

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HASTE by Hot Sauce Bread Studios (@HotSauceBread) in Ottawa, ON

SAK'D (@SAKDGame) by Alchemy Interactive in Canada

Cornucopia (@CornucopiaPC) by Subconscious Games in Vancouver, BC