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I'll get nerdy about games with the CBC's Jonathan Ore, as we talk about our faves from 2024, and what to expect on consoles in 2025.
How the fighting between Israel and Hamas could spiral into a regional conflict; why Ed Currie bred the world's hottest pepper then ate it whole; Jonathan Ore reviews Super Mario Bros. Wonder; meet the writer-director of the Indigenous horror-comedy series Tales From The Rez; Vinay Shukla delivers a damning indictment of Indian media with While We Watched; and more.
CBC's resident gaming expert Jonathan Ore has spent dozens of hours playing the much anticipated Tears of the Kingdom. He's here to tell us if you should play it, too.
Game, set, match! Nintendo has rolled out its latest motion-sensing game. But does this latest offering from the company meet sky-high expectations? We'll check in with our CBC gaming experts Danielle McCreadie and Jonathan Ore.
How Jeremy McKenzie put his group Diagolon at the centre of the so-called Freedom Convoy protests; the writer behind Ram Ranch on the song making headlines for trolling protesters in Ottawa; why Russia's doping controversy at the Olympics could be valuable propaganda on Ukraine for the Kremlin; teacher reacts to the hit comedy Abbott Elementary, CBC's Jonathan Ore on whether you should play Horizon: Forbidden West; embracing your inner winter Olympian and more.
If you, or someone in your household, is a gamer then you'll want to hear our next interview. Associate Producer Danielle McCreadie talks to CBC's gaming expert Jonathan Ore about his picks for the best of 2021.
As a kid, Jonathan Ore was a Warhammer 40k fanatic. He spent hours painting the thumb-sized miniatures used in the tabletop game, and met up with his friends to play in his uncle's comic book shop. As an adult, Jonathan abandoned the hobby. But when the pandemic hit, he started painting again, and re-engaging with the Warhammer community, this time online… only to discover that divisive debates had found their way to the fandom. Suddenly, Jonathan was faced with questions: How did this happen, and did he really want back in after all? Jonathan unpacks the surprising history of this incredibly popular but underreported game, and speaks to people about engaging in a fandom that's increasingly torn apart, all while trying to find his own place within it.
This weekend NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and U.S. congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised over 200,000 U.S. dollars for charity by live streaming a game called Among Us on Twitch for nearly six hours. Among Us is a popular space-murder-mystery multiplayer online game. About 100,000 people tuned in to watch the livestream. Today, CBC Senior writer and gaming columnist Jonathan Ore is here to fill us in on Among Us and Twitch and explain how leftwing politicians are taking full advantage of these digital spaces. But can this tactic work for others?
What a 1981 campaign of voter suppression could portend for the upcoming U.S. election, Canadians get creative to celebrate a COVID-19 Halloween, Rubik's cube inventor Erno Rubik on its lasting legacy, Should I Play It? columnist Jonathan Ore tackles Watch Dog: Legion, a new book explores Dolly Parton's rise and more.
Emily, John, David and Jamelle discuss the impacts and threats of wildfires and the climate crisis, apocalyptic election talk, and the four of them envision a new and improved post-pandemic work week. Here are some notes and references from this week’s special show -- part of the Texas Tribune Festival!: Abrahm Lustgarten for The New York Times Magazine: “The Great Climate Migration” Galen Durke for FiveThirtyEight “The Challenges Of Holding An Election During A Pandemic” Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “Trump’s Perverse Campaign Strategy” Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times: “Whose America Is It?” Isaac Stanley-Becker for The Washington Post: “Pro-Trump Youth Group Enlists Teens in Secretive Campaign Likened to a ‘troll farm,’ Prompting Rebuke by Facebook and Twitter” Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamont Here are the week cocktail chatters for this week: Emily: Janet Malcolm for The New York Review of Books: “A Second Chance” John: @AmeliaFrappolli’s, twitter thread about the mad hatter who shot John Wilkes Booth, Boston Corbett, as chronicled in Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West by Dale L. Walker. Jamelle: Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin; The Mandalorian, Season 2 David: The Oddly Satisfying channel on YouTube. Listener chatter from Janet Green @janetcetera: Jonathan Ore and Kevin Ball for CBC: “Paddle of the Century” Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, John, and Jamelle take questions from viewers of the Texas Tribune Festival livestream. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Emily, John, David and Jamelle discuss the impacts and threats of wildfires and the climate crisis, apocalyptic election talk, and the four of them envision a new and improved post-pandemic work week. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Abrahm Lustgarten for The New York Times Magazine: “The Great Climate Migration” Galen Durke for FiveThirtyEight “The Challenges Of Holding An Election During A Pandemic” Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “Trump’s Perverse Campaign Strategy” Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times: “Whose America Is It?” Isaac Stanley-Becker for The Washington Post: “Pro-Trump Youth Group Enlists Teens in Secretive Campaign Likened to a ‘troll farm,’ Prompting Rebuke by Facebook and Twitter” Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamont Here are the week cocktail chatters for this week: Emily: Janet Malcolm for The New York Review of Books: “A Second Chance” John: @AmeliaFrappolli’s, twitter thread about the mad hatter who shot John Wilkes Booth, Boston Corbett, as chronicled in Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West by Dale L. Walker. Jamelle: Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin; The Mandalorian, Season 2 David: The Oddly Satisfying channel on YouTube. Listener chatter from Janet Green @janetcetera: Jonathan Ore and Kevin Ball for CBC: “Paddle of the Century” Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, John, and Jamelle take questions from viewers of the Texas Tribune Festival livestream. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hey, it’s the new season of Game Moose. New look, same great taste. This week Drew talks with Jonathan Ore and Shaun Hatton talk the clash of the brands, the console wars. The post You Fought in the Console Wars? appeared first on Game Moose.
This week on the Game Moose Podcast we’re joined by Jonathan Ore to talk about Rage 2, Castlevania, ProJared, Call Of Duty, and much more! The post Game Moose Episode 158 – Andrew W.K. Loves Pink Smoke appeared first on Game Moose.
Fresh from the Far Cry 5 event, we’re joined by Jonathan Ore, where we discuss the game, and listen to our interview with Drew Holmes (lead writer) and JS Ducant (narrative director). Brock’s away on assignment, but that didn’t stop us from talking Sea of Thieves, and Life is Strange. The post Game Moose Podcast Episode 116 – Cult Chat appeared first on Game Moose.
We look back on a great year for video games in what happened to be a terrible year overall. Janine Hawkins, David Wolinsky, Yifat Shaik, Taylor Bai-Woo, Gabriel Zoltan-Johan, and Jonathan Ore join us for a conversation about what it means to make money in video games today.
Jonathan Ore from the CBC joins us again to talk about Nintendo news and the future of the industry
We brought Jonathan Ore from the CBC to discuss the coming end of the Wii U