(This one was also named by Stephan- let it be known.)Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land 🌎OVERVIEW:We (Stephan specifically) celebrates the BioWare contract studio Keyword's unionization drive and recent win of a key demand that work f

Ep 210 - Just Say it's Cancelled

May 16th, 2022 1h 16m

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land 💪OVERVIEW:This week we talk dumb PR ways not to say a game is cancelled, we celebrate Abhi's announcement they're leaving their job to do Venba development full-time, Phantom Compass' cool new game pr

Interview w. Sol Studios

May 13th, 2022 25m 44s

In this interview, we talk with the young guns Angelo Graci (@agraci07) and Ryan Farkas (@RyanFarkas7) from Sol Studios (@SolStudios) about their new company, making their debut project Wormhole, their process, lessons learned and hopes for the

Ep 209 - The Data Innovation Centre of Excellence

May 9th, 2022 53m 58s

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3OVERVIEW:A massive acquisition of Canadian studios this week by the Swedish Bond-villain-sounding Embracer Group. Achimostawinan wins a cool $50k in hard-fought Indie Prize. The Big Con finally finds

Ep 208 - UNIONIZE BIOWARE (Stephan Named This One)

May 5th, 2022 1h 50m

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3OVERVIEW: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

Ep 207 - #DadDeck Review

Apr 4th, 2022 1h 9m

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3OVERVIEW:PlayStation has its first Canadian studio since forming 27 years ago, thanks entirely to Steve and this site. Inscryption wins big at GDC/IGF awards (Boyfriend Dungeon wins one too). Then St

Ep 206 - WTF is up with BioWare

Mar 3rd, 2022 1h 10m

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3OVERVIEW:After a much longer than anticipated hiatus, we're back to discuss the rather dramatic series of stories coming out of BioWare- the much beleaguered Edmonton-based EA subsidiary.JOBS:Here ar

Ep 205 - Stephan's Left Unattended (feat. Adam Boyce)

Jan 11th, 2022 2h 47m

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3Overview:This week we're joined by software developer, game creator and great Twitter presence Adam Boyce (@AdamBoyce4) currently working out of London, ON (home of the last Jumbo Video/Microplay com

Ep 204 - Our (personal) Canadian GOTY's for 2021

Jan 5th, 2022 40m 47s

For this week Steve and Stephan discuss our own personal Canadian games of the year as well as the Canadian game we most want to get back to as well as our most anticipated Canadian game yet to release!The polls for our 2021 categories will go

Ep 203 - All That Was Canadian at The Keighley's

Dec 13th, 2021 1h 24m

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3Overview:Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards™ occurred this past week and while there were a few Canadian winners (actually just 2) there was a lot more Canadian game trailers, teasers and announcements

Ep 202 - Crunchy Pixels are Better Than Smooth

Nov 29th, 2021 1h 7m

Support the Wet’suwet’en Defend Their Land <3Overview:Oodles of Canadian gaming events, news and releases for your earholes this week- PlayStation taps some Canadian talent for the God of War (2018) PC port, a trio of new studios opening up and

Ep 201 - A Big Dump of Game Impressions

Nov 15th, 2021 54m 38s

We're back! Sort of - it's been a while for Steve and Stephan so we go over the Canadian games we've played in the past few weeks and give our impressions/reviews.Stephan:- Inscryption-Age of Empires 4- The Vale- The Big ConSteve- Guardians of

Ep 200 - In-Person Talkin' Top 5 Canadian Games

Nov 3rd, 2021 37m 3s

For the first time ever Stephan and Steve gathered around the same microphone (sorry about the slight echo) to record episode 200 of the Canadian Game Devs Podcast!We broke down our personal top 5 Canadian game lists to celebrate the occasion,

Ep 199 - A Day Old Pod <3

Nov 2nd, 2021 1h 10m

Please Consider Supporting the Indian Residential School Survivors Society!Join Steve in supporting the Heart and Stroke Foundation <3Overview: Steve’s audio is once again messed up in the 2nd half I’m so sorry this keeps happening but this epi

Ep 198 - Big Fan of the 'W' (feat. Gabriel from Bluish-Green Productions)

Sep 27th, 2021 1h 36m

Please Consider Supporting the Indian Residential School Survivors Society!Join Steve in supporting the Heart and Stroke Foundation <3Overview: The gang is joined by Gabriel from Bluish-Green Productions, a Toronto-based indie dev whose latest

Ep 197 - Stephan Smooches Some Swords

Sep 20th, 2021 52m 3s

Please Consider Supporting the Indian Residential School Survivors Society!Overview: This week Steve and Stephan talk the state of Eidos Montréal's Avengers game, as well as the bright future of many Canadian indies like Tribes of Midgard, Hard

Ep 196 - Long Live Last Soul (feat. Tony Munoz)

Sep 1st, 2021 1h 17m

Please Consider Supporting the Indian Residential School Survivors Society!Overview: We're joined by Calgary-based indie game developer Tony Munoz (@tonymmakesgames) to talk about his pixel art platformer Last Soul which recently landed a publi

Ep 195 - A Bad Omen for Licensed Crossovers (feat. Devon Wiersma)

Aug 23rd, 2021 1h 21m

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Donate to The 519, Canada’s most prominent LGBTQ2S community centre and service provider Overview: We're joined by illustrious indie game dev Devon (@Devon_Wi

Ep 194 - Another Pale, Male Studio

Aug 17th, 2021 1h 5m

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors SocietyOverview: There is an an all-new same old pale french male studio which we discuss. Do people still care about Marvel's Avengers? A new "wishlist this game" fr

Ep 193 - August is Canadian Indie Month

Aug 3rd, 2021 1h 5m

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society The Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and IntegrationOverview:Activision-Blizzard has studios across Canada and in light of mountains of abuse, rape,

Ep 192 - Steam Deck Does it for Us

Jul 22nd, 2021 1h 21m

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors SocietyOverview:This week we discuss the Switch Pro that didn't come from Nintendo and its implications for Steve's stay-at-home dad gaming life- as well as why Steph

Ep 191 - Game Slice 2021 HYPE (feat. Eric Beer)

Jul 13th, 2021 1h 19m

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society The Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration Find our Guest and Patron Eric at:Portfolio: https://thebotbook.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linke

Ep 190 - Toxic Studios Fail to Change

Jun 28th, 2021 1h 24m

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Buy the Queer Games Bundle 2021 Buy the Bundle for At-risk and Houseless YouthOverview:Recent reports from credible news outlets show us nothing much of subst

Ep 189 - E3 2021 Bonanza Pod

Jun 15th, 2021 1h 9m

Here are all the Canadian games we could pick out from the approximately 400,000 E3 streams this year.We mainly go over all the games, so not much here for links! We will be back with a normal episode next week with events, jobs and wishlist th

Ep 188 - E(h)3 Predictions

Jun 10th, 2021 1h 16m

Please Consider Supporting: Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society Buy the itch.io Palestine Relief Bundle Buy the Queer Games Bundle 2021 Buy the Bundle for At-risk and Houseless YouthOverview:We break down all the E3 stream