A few games get the review treatment in this week’s Georgia Straight.

GTA: Chinatown Wars, for the DS, Halo Wars, the ultra-extreme MadWorld, and Resident Evil 5 are reviewed here.

Resistance: Retribution for the PSP gets it’s own page here.

I knew that Andrea Martin had been doing some voiceover work for Sesame Street, but I did not know that she had also brought to the happiest of urban streets her Mrs. Falbo character, from SCTV.

It’s true. Sesame Street’s Wanda the Word Fairy is the same Wanda Falbo who hosted SCTV’s Tiny Town. With, you’ll recall, sidekick, Mr. Messenger, played by the cigarette smoking John Candy.

Brilliant.

My first article for Vancouver Magazine has published. It’s in the April issue, and it’s a look at the informal get-togethers that those who work in Vancouver’s video game sector hold.

Although these days they have been more gatherings of people who used to work in the sector, and are now job hunting.

It’s early yet, so Soho Billiards isn’t busy, even though it’s a Friday afternoon in Yaletown. Two middle-aged men – a bit old for the place – rack ’em up in one corner. Across the room, a group of developers from a nearby Web-design company gang together some tables. Even so, they have to lean over the scattered pitchers and playing cards to make themselves heard above the shouts and the music.

The edition of Calgary’s Fast Forward Weekly that published today includes my reviews of Afro Samurai, FEAR 2, Flower, GTA IV: The Lost & Damned, Killzone 2, and Noby Noby Boy.

Read them all over here.

It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.