Ubisoft and Obsidian have started showing off South Park: The Stick of Truth ahead of its rumoured August release. I know the reviews for The Last of Us are epic but I’m still more excited for this one. [Game Informer]

We’re big fans of the Canadian gaming industry around here so it shouldn’t surprise you when we mention good news about it. The industry added $2.3 billion to Canada’s GDP and full-time jobs grew by 5% in 2012. [GamesIndustry]

The final issue of Game Developer magazine is available for free online in case you’re interested. If you’re a regular here, I think you’d find it interesting. [Gamasutra]

Old-school mechanical keyboards are making a comeback. However, there’s a lot more to mechanical keyboards than pushing a key and your computer receiving a command. There are some important things that you should know before going out and buying one. [Lifehacker]

There are some questionable choices and massive omissions but here is the Writers Guild of America list of the 101 best written TV shows of all-time. [Pajiba]

Nilay Patel tried out the new Google Glass at the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 this past Sunday. When it worked, it worked well. However, there’s still some work to be done on it. [The Verge]

Now that Tumblr is part of the Yahoo empire, let’s look back at the start of the micro-blogging service. [The Daily Dot]

EVE Online might not be a game you’ve played but it’s definitely one you heard about because of massive PVP battles like the recent Battle of Asakai that saw 10% of all players logged in participate in the fight. [Gaming Trend]

You’ve paired wines with food and beer with food but have you tried pairing beer with classic arcade video games? [Bon Appetit]

A choose-your-own-adventure Mass Effect comic? Why not? [Dorkly]

Alright, I’ve covered the features and marketing behind the Xbox One but how about a proper tech showdown? Who wins on paper: The PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? [Digital Foundry]

Both consoles use an AMD Jaguar processor. This isn’t just for game consoles but could be a big deal in the laptop market in the very near future. [The Verge]

Speaking of power, NVIDIA has launched the GTX 780 which slots in between the 680 & Titan in terms of price and performance. Is it worth it if you’re willing to pay a premium but not Titan premium? [Anand Tech]

What is Google’s plan with Google Fiber? Unfortunately, they aren’t thinking about a massive roll-out. All I really want is them to come to my hometown so I don’t have to deal with my cable provider’s BS. [BGR]

What if the Great Houses of Westeros were all corporations of modern-day Earth? They might be a little like this. [Shutterstock]

I really wanted to write about the Season 4 downfall of Community and why I would have been content rather than upset if it was cancelled. Instead, I’ll leave it to the more eloquent Rob Payne. [Pajiba]

Former THQ and Naughty Dog boss Jason Rubin explains all the hardship endured by 4A Games in developing Metro: Last Light that you will never see mentioned in any story or review about the game. [GamesIndustry]

An MIT study says that game publishers are over-estimating their losses due to piracy. Why am I not surprised? [Wired]

There’s a video game-themed restaurant in Vancouver. If I’m ever on the left coast, I must eat there! [Geekologie]

This week on the sister site, I continue my crusade against the endless string of soulless, money-grabbing franchises being pumped out by publishers. What happened to fresh IPs? [The Lowdown Blog]

If you frequent bookstores or check out comic book sales charts, you’d know that graphic novels are growing exponentially more popular. Their popularity has seen them carve out an ever more popular space in libraries. [Publishers Weekly]

There’s a rather long story behind how Marimba became the default iPhone ring tone. [Quora]

Movies based on video games tend to be shit but would that be your immediate assumption if a Dead Space movie was made by the legendary John Carpenter? [Den of Geek]

Remember that Star Wars Day promotion that the Toledo Mud Hens ran? Here’s a recap from the ballpark. [Baseball Nation]

Jonathan Frakes has a very unique way of sitting down. [Gamma Squad]

This summer’s World War Z movie as all the markings of an unmitigated disaster. Vanity Fair looks at the massive re-write and re-shoot to try to make the movie actually make sense. [Vanity Fair]

AOL killed off its popular Comics Alliances site this week. Is this the beginning of the end for comic book blogging or is the end of blogging for profit already here and we’re all just hanging for dear life? [Comic Beat]

The Thief reboot by Eidos Montreal got a lot of people excited but it has been nothing but an unmitigated disaster behind the scenes. [Polygon]

Speaking of thieves, the creators of the Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat memes are suing Warner Bros. and 5th Cell over the inclusion of said memes in Scribblenauts Unlimited. So, do you back the folks who let anyone use their memes any other time or the people who are constantly coming down hard on thieves but are basically intellectual property thieves themselves? [Destructoid]

Facebook is going to start charging you to message people you aren’t friends with and gouge you should you message famous people on Facebook. They are the evil empire. [BuzzFeed]

Jim Sterling wins this week. His take on the fallacy of a killer app in gaming perfectly shows how publishers are going in the wrong direction in developing games. [The Escapist]

The PlayStation 4’s lead system architect, Mark Cerny, gave an in-depth interview about the hardware powering Sony’s next-gen console. [Gamasutra]

This is a convenient link since we had a Papo & Yo review this week. P&Y director Vander Caballero talks about why going console exclusive can have a benefit for indie games. [Indie Games]

I don’t know if we mentioned repeatedly but this week was Canadian Gaming Week on The Lowdown Blog. We closed the week up with a look at the powerhouse that is Canadian video game developers. [The Lowdown Blog]

Unfortunately, we didn’t end up getting a review copy of Star Trek: The Video Game. However, it turns out that nobody did. Angry Joe got the same email I did. He goes over the PR and programming disaster that is Star Trek’s launch.

You may not know the name Rae Johnston but you know her story. A guy in line at a coffee shop scoffed at her love of gaming because she was wearing a BioShock Infinite t-shirt so she spoiled the ending for him. She gives her in-depth recounting of the story and doesn’t even spoil the game for me. [Rae Johnston] No, I’m not done yet. Don’t judge. I’ve been busy.

Have you heard of Spiral Game’s Orion: Dino Beatdown? If you haven’t, that’s because Spiral Game Studios removed all mention of it from Steam and replaced it with the “new release” Orion: Dino Horde. While Dino Beatdown was panned far and wide (it got a 2/10 from IGN of all places), Dino Horde gets a fresh slate as far as Metacritic is concern. However, Dino Horde appears to be largely the exact same game as Dino Beatdown but with some minor improvements. We’re used to the big publisher having shady business practices but it’s painful when the indies do it. [Reddit]

Patton Oswalt was on Parks & Recreation this week as a citizen filibustering Pawnee city council. Oswalt was told to ad-lib his filibuster. The result was an eight-minute long description of what he wanted from Star Wars: Episode VII. It’s a damn cool idea and I like that he recognizes that Hawkeye and Black Widow are on Marvel’s B-team. [HitFix]

Disney says that they’re going to be releasing one Star Wars movie a year starting with Episode VII in 2015. This deal’s getting worse all the time. They won’t be happy until they’ve bled all the money out of Star Wars and discard it as a failure when the fans stop caring due to the eventual declining product quality and oversaturation. Fuck Disney. I can’t anymore. I’m done for the week. [/Film]

If you’re going to make a big mistake in a news story, don’t make it in one that geeks may be reading (which would be all of them but let’s just let people have their stereotype for the moment). [Poynter]

Indie developer Nathan Fouts doesn’t like seeing quick, cash-grabbing ports on the upcoming (kinda already released) Ouya. He’s gone as far as given porting tips to devs for things that they need to fix in moving from mobile to console. [Indie Games]

Short on content this week, Kotaku is doing a Mass Effect Week. So here’s BioWare founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk talking with GI about gaming, development, the gamers and, of course, EA. [GamesIndustry]

Today on the sister site, I look at why the upcoming console war could be a massive failure for all three manufacturers. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with the likes of the Steam Box, Ouya or GameStick. [The Lowdown Blog]

Uruk-hai swords are useful for more than just slicing through humans. [Apparently Fish Need Bicycles]

Nintendo is in a rough spot right now. Sales just aren’t what was expected. The blame for that sits at the feet of their CEO Satoru Iwata who just refuses to learn from history and see the writing on the wall. [Not Enough Shaders]

Facebook announced their new Home app for Android devices yesterday. I don’t care enough about Facebook to write an article about it so it’s a link today. [Engadget]

Over on the sister site, I wonder if Geoff Keighley’s involvement in Kojima’s “viral marketing” of MGS5 means that we can’t trust the gaming press any more. [The Lowdown Blog]

WWE star A.J. Lee talks about her top ten video games of all-time. I’m including this mostly because we played the same Metal Gear Solid demo. The difference is that she bought the game and I didn’t. [With Leather]

So SimCity is fixed right? Not even close based on this user’s experience in civic planning. [Imgur]