Game blog / Kensington Market, Toronto
A gritty, no-filler game blog run out of a print shop on Augusta Avenue. We break down boss fights frame by frame, dig up forgotten cartridges, and coach speedrunners who want their splits back.
+1 (416) 555-0987 · 298 Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market, Toronto, ON M5T 2L1
Our columns
No content mill, no press-release copy-paste. Everything below ships on a fixed schedule from our two-person desk in the Market.
Free · CA$8/mo premium
New every Thursday, 9:00 AM ET
Frame-by-frame teardowns of the hardest fights in new releases — hitboxes, i-frames, and the exact input windows. Premium members get the annotated video and the practice save files.
Free · CA$40 archive pass
Weekly, plus a monthly long-read
Deep dives into forgotten cartridges and disc-era oddities we hunt down at Kensington flea tables. Real playthroughs, honest verdicts, and a running map of what is actually worth the collector premium.
CA$45 / 60-min session
Booked 1-on-1, remote or in-shop
Bring your PB and your route; we rebuild it. Movement tech, menu buffering, and RNG mitigation for any%, glitchless, and category extensions. First 15 minutes are a free route audit.
Behind the desk
Hover a panel to see how each series actually gets made. No AI slop, no reheated wikis.
We read the whole changelog so you don’t.
Every major patch gets a same-day breakdown: buffs, stealth nerfs, and the numbers the devs quietly changed. We flag what actually shifts the meta and what is just noise.
The good stuff before the algorithm finds it.
We play the demos so you can skip the duds. Weekly shortlist of Canadian and international indies worth your Friday night, with wishlist links and honest content warnings.
Timelines, translated and untangled.
Sprawling franchise lore, sourced and cross-checked against interviews and datamines. We cite everything, mark the theories as theories, and never pretend a headcanon is fact.
Frame grab
Screens, spray-tag art, and shop shots from recent posts. Swipe through the reel.
Boss Rush #212 — mapping the parry window on the second phase.
Retro haul from the Augusta Avenue flea tables, sorted and tested.
Speedrun Lab — splits overlay from a Saturday coaching call.
Cover art for the Lore Vault: hand-tagged in the back of the shop.
Reader mail
“The parry breakdown shaved four attempts off my final-boss wall. I’d been mistiming the second swing for a week — one annotated frame fixed it.”
“Booked a coaching session on a whim and cut 90 seconds off my any% route. The menu-buffering tip alone was worth the CA$45.”
“Their retro reviews stopped me from overpaying for a cart that plays like a brick. Honest, funny, and they actually finish the games.”
Get in
Story tips, review copies, coaching bookings, or just want to argue about tier lists? Drop us a line — we read everything from the shop.