At the last minute, the Straight decided this week’s issue should have video-games as its cover story. It was a great decision, but the timing of the decision meant that Charlie Smith, editor of the paper, had to dive in and help out. So there are four video-game related stories in this week’s edition, two of which came from me.

I wrote about Robert Parungao’s honours thesis research on racism in video-games and about the chaos that is expected at retail outlets when the PS3 and Wii release in North America next weekend.

Charlie’s articles look at the surge in video-game studios in Vancouver recently and the new Telefilm initiative to promote Canadian content in video-games.