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How to Play The Pawn’s Special Game
April 1, 2025By: Your friends at The Pawn <3 Are you on the hunt for a fun way to waste time? Never fear — The Pawn is here! After multiple months of testing, we’ve come up with the perfect game for you to play during the extraordinarily lengthy 10-minute break that you have between your 8:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. lecture in West Mall, and your 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. “seminar” (or should we say syrup-making session?) in Blusson Hall. To make sure this game works perfectly, every current staff member of The Peak Pawn was invited to the office to…
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Rooster: a virtual portal to ancient China
May 7, 2024By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor A parchment-like scroll is laid out on a flat surface. Perfectly imperfect splotches of watercolour red, gray, and green bleed onto the pages as they shift under your command. Black brushstrokes line up…
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Video games that helped me cope with health anxiety
March 13, 2024By: Abbey Perley, Assistant Production Editor Content warning: mentions of illness and death. Illness anxiety, previously called hypochondria, is a type of anxiety where the affected person constantly believes they have a serious medical problem. For me, every new freckle…
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Venba is a heartwarming love letter to a Tamil immigrant’s experience
September 26, 2023By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer I’ve always believed a great game is characterized by the way it engages the player physically, mentally, and emotionally. Most video games tend to capture players with elaborate plotlines, dramatic effects, and competitive battles, but…
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Connect the Lingo
January 27, 2022By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor A ____________ is worth 6 points 32 points, 12 rebounds, 12 assists When a player enters an opponent’s blue line before the puck does NFL Championship Trophy Its rules are thought to have originated in Montreal…
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Do you know who this professional athlete is?
January 25, 2022By: Greg Makarov, Sports Writer Welcome to the most challenging and intricate game you’ve ever played. This will test your intelligence, wit, and of course, your ability to use Google search. Will you be able to guess this athlete based on…
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Food Fantasy is fantastic but frustrating
September 25, 2018By: Michelle Chiang With stunning graphics and anthropomorphized food items, Food Fantasy is a mobile game that is both fun and engaging. It combines aspects of two common gaming genres, RPG and restaurant management, into one game,…
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Bendy and the Ink Machine’s newest game is the weakest one so far
May 13, 2018By Winona Young The range of emotions I experienced when playing the newest chapter of Bendy and the Ink Machine (BATIM) went from excitement, paranoia, and fear to confusion, frustration, and outright annoyance. This newest instalment delivers a chapter with…
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SFU researchers develop simulated reality game to showcase trans youth experiences
March 6, 2018SFU sociology researchers are teaming up with master’s students from the Centre of Digital Media to develop an immersive game where players assume an avatar and navigate the Lower Mainland as a trans youth to better understand the daily experiences…
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Why I’m not jumping on the Pokémon Go bandwagon
July 25, 2016[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne of the fondest memories of my childhood is marathoning all 10 (at the time) Pokémon movies in a 24-hour period. I wept when Entei sacrificed himself for Molly and cheered when Latios and Latias rocketed over the city of…
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