[Iammadmak]

http://business.financialpost.com/2013/11/08/future-shop-offering-new-call-of-duty-assassins-creed-and-battlefield-titles-for-free-with-single-trade-in/?__lsa=f471-0771

Canadians can get PS3/XBox 360 versions of Battlefield 4, CoD: Ghosts and ACIV for free this weekend if they trade in any current generation title game at Future Shop and Best Buy. Some areas won't have it but you can trade in games that you wouldn't get 5 dollars for at EB for a 60 dollar game. One game per day per location.

[Iammadmak]

[Iammadmak]

This is relevant to people in Toronto:
http://handeyesociety.com/wordplay/

"A free one-day festival celebrating the most interesting uses of writing and words in contemporary games.

What do writerly videogames look like? Come check out our showcase and play 20+ examples. Sometimes they’re mostly text on a screen, like Anna Anthropy’s twisted And the Robot Horse You Rode in On. Sometimes they’re gorgeously illustrated with prose inspired by magical realism and Flannery O’Connor, like Kentucky Route Zero. In Actual Sunlight, you battle depression as an RPG character. In Forumwarz, you can get into a war of words with virtual trolls on the web. In The Yawhg you decide what to do in the brief time before your town meets its doom. In Cart Life you have to remember when to pick up your kid from school after slinging coffee all day."

There are also some panels and you can also attend a workshop to make Twine games with Christine Love.