Brad Shankar
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Gaming Editor @MobileSyrup | @JournalismTMU alum | Views my own | [email protected] | @bradshankar.bsky.social | He/him | 🇨🇦
Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2013
Canada’s video game industry is MASSIVE but under-appreciated. That’s always bothered me. So, I spent the last 1.5 years asking dozens of AAA & indie devs, actors, lobbyists & more how to address it. They offered an incredible range of perspectives! 🇨🇦 🎮 https://t.co/wleIO5atGE
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Huge congrats to Toronto's @caravandetta and @cococucumberco for the reveal of Echo Generation 2 in the Xbox Partner Preview! 🇨🇦 🎮 The first game was a delightful retro-inspired (and Canada-set!) RPG -- can't wait for the sequel next year.
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The Canadian-set sci-fi turn-based RPG is coming to Xbox and PC next year.
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Shoutout to our PR friends during the busy holiday season. I'm behind on a lot features for misc. reasons, so I really appreciate how helpful & patient you've been (while no doubt being swamped yourselves).🫶 I'll (slowly) have a bunch of pieces coming over the next few weeks.✍
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TBH, 2025 is the first year in a while where I don't have a clear GOTY pick that truly resonated with me. I wasn't as hot on some of the bigger games but really dug lots of "less talked about" ones. The end of year list I'm working on will probably seem a bit unhinged lol.
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I’m so glad there are so many losers on here — including many sitting MPs! — that regularly ask this thing if something is true or not when it can’t even accurately state who the prime minister of Canada is
@Guysmileyxxx @TroyWestwood Zero. Mark Carney has never served as Canada's Prime Minister, so he has appointed no federal ministers. All current and past ministers under Justin Trudeau were appointed by him alone, with no overlap possible until—if ever—Carney assumes that role. This highlights the
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This is legitimately like when white people taste Caribbean food for the first time
No exaggeration: Expedition 33 is the kind of masterpiece that’s going to be impossible to ignore in any future discussion about games. For gamers, it’s basically mandatory education and core curriculum.
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@MobileSyrup @Patrick_ORourke @CGMagonline @CBC @Jon_Ore @_AndrewMohan And yes, TGAs has many issues, especially recently with the poor handling of Future Class. Definitely don't want to discount any of that. But for now, at least, I'm grateful to see more Canadians at the voting table. (Le Devoir was also added this year, so congrats to them!)
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@MobileSyrup @Patrick_ORourke @CGMagonline @CBC @Jon_Ore Shoutout as well to Katya Ryabova and @_AndrewMohan for helping out on the jury. Since we're a pretty small team and I handle the bulk of our gaming coverage, I try to involve at least a few contributors so it's not just me voting for some things lol. Appreciate their input!
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Still a bit surreal to see us listed on the jury even as a returning outlet as this follows years of slowly growing @MobileSyrup's gaming coverage, in no small part thanks to @Patrick_ORourke. It's great to be here with friends & colleagues like @CGMagonline and @CBC's @Jon_Ore!
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Excited to confirm @MobileSyrup is back on #TheGameAwards voting jury this year! It's an honour to play just a small part in representing Canada's world-class gaming industry. 🇨🇦 🎮 Congrats to all the nominees today and I'm excited to head to LA next month to attend the show!
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Montreal's @MotiveStudio was also one of the developers that worked on Battlefield 6, which is up for Best Action Game, Best Multiplayer Game and Best Audio Design. #TheGameAwards
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Shoutout to the 🇨🇦 #TheGameAwards nominees! -Compulsion's South of Midnight (Accessibility, Games for Impact) -Don't Nod MTL's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Impact) -EA Vancouver's EA Sports FC 26 (Accessibility, Sports) -Ubisoft Quebec's Assassin's Creed Shadows (Accessibility)
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A Splinter Cell game getting turned into a yet another live service…
Bloomberg: Ubisoft San Francisco was working on a new Splinter Cell game in 2017 that became xDefiant after live service ambitions ➡️ https://t.co/Hc4M3q1bGL
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CGAs debuted this at #MIGS25 and I'm glad it's now public. It's a great snapshot of the Canadian gaming industry and I'd love to see more like this down the line. (And on that note, now that my travel is finally slowing down, I'll have a few Canadian gaming features coming soon!)
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LOVE this @cgameawards video showcasing the vast creativity of Canadian games, from bigger titles like @UbisoftQuebec's Assassin's Creed Shadows & @CompulsionGames' South of Midnight to indies like @softrainsgames' Ambrosia Sky & @ExniloStudio's Strand. 🇨🇦 https://t.co/EkCSlHncyj
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Haven’t had much time for movies the past week. 😭 Looking forward to fixing that this weekend. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
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Played about 90 minutes of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond last week and really enjoyed it. The rich atmosphere and snappy shooting are as strong as ever, while the new Psychic abilities are quite promising. My full preview on @MobileSyrup: https://t.co/XzEWG67I5C
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With its mix of rich atmosphere, snappy shooting mechanics, new psychic abilities and narrative intrigue, the long-awaited new Metroid can't get here fast enough.
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Nothing better than getting home after a lot of travel, kicking back and watching peak television from Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn. 💯 #Pluribus
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Locking in plans to attend #TheGameAwards for a few days around the show itself. (Devs/PR/colleagues, HMU if you’re doing anything that week!) Who else is going to be there?
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