By some strange paradox, E3′s lack of announcements regarding the next “next generation” of hardware has prompted many news sites (and publishers) so speculate as to when the next cycle will begin. When I first began animating games at home in my highschool years and was invited up to the local game studio, DMA Design, [...]

Jock’s son passed away today. I’ve never met Jock, or his son Bobby, but his videos on youtube have kept a Scotsman in Canada entertained for the last year, not least because they feature a net-savvy over-seventy-year-old in a country only now discovering Facebook. I imagine most people waching this here in North America won’t have a [...]

Summer is here in Montreal and it’s hard to spend any free time at home in front of a desk, unless it’s to upload a fantastic picture of back home sent from your parents’ latest outing. Anybody thinking of holidaying in Scotland would be wise to get there ASAP while the two weeks where it [...]

Recently Watchdog, (a UK consumer complaint show), ran an article on DS Brain Training / Brain Age supposedly discriminating against accents – especially those of Northern England and Scotland. As silly as this sounds, I actually found it to be entirely true when playing despite commanding a relatively well-spoken Scots tongue myself, though was impressed [...]

I wrote a post just a few weeks ago complaining about “back home”, but it’s easy to get homesick when your friend sends you pictures of his recent camping trip in Glencoe, Scotland. The Canadian Rockies are majestic, the NY Adirondacks are incredibly fertile, but there’s something about the Scottish Highlands that’s just classic fairytale.

It’s not at all related to games or animation, but I just found this site claiming to relate local news from my hometown of Dundee, Scotland, in the local dialect. While it’s far from regularly updated, they do have an iFrame displaying the local weather from an external site, which I’ve stolen and handily embedded [...]