Published today at the Globe & Mail’s online technology section is my look at how video games are at the forefront of the new storytelling, in which worlds/universes/mythologies are being illuminated using a variety of media.

Where Tolkien exposed Middle Earth using novels, for example, the story of Richard Riddick is told in movies, animated films, and video games. Halo and Mass Effect are using games, novels, comics, and even ARGs.

I lay it all out over here.

While Grand Theft Auto IV was released on Tuesday, the story of how Electronic Arts has been trying to get the franchise – and publisher Rockstar Games – under its umbrella has been going on since February. In this week’s “Trigger Happy,” I take a look at the sequence of events in EA’s attempt to acquire Take-Two Interactive.

Also in this week’s Georgia Straight are reviews of Conflict: Denied Ops and Time Crisis 4.

My conversation with Kevin Shortt, writer at Ubisoft, covered quite a bit of ground that I didn’t cover in my “Trigger Happy” column last week, so I transcribed the entire interview and have published it over at CinemaSpy.ca.

The debate over whether Mac computers are better than PCs is also a debate over whether OS X is better than Windows.

Well, as I write in this week’s “Techno Logic,” Leopard claws the shit out of Vista.

You’ll find it in the Georgia Straight.

This week’s edition of FFWD Weekly includes my article looking at why the annual Game Developers Conference is great.