Who knew getting trapped in a room for an hour could be so fun? Escape rooms are popping up all over the Maritimes, their tricky riddles puzzling people from Cavendish to Fredericton. Ben Crouse explores the puzzle game’s ever-growing popularity, while trying to escape himself. … I walked into my first escape room not sure […]
Q&A Zhongzhe Lin, professional e-sport player
Zhongzhe Lin,24, has been a professional e-sport player for three years in China. He and his league of legend team Positive Energy won the champion of The Tencent League of Legend Pro League 2013 Summer Season. Right now, he already retired and became a game-caster in a Chinese web-cast. How did you get into competitive […]
Top 5 Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Specialists
Background: Black Ops 3 introduced a new feature to the Call of Duty franchise – Specialists. The player must choose from nine distinct specialists to play as, pre-made characters with their own unique look and back story that indirectly relates to game play. While the gender, facial structure, and body type of each specialist cannot […]
Q&A: Sean Ekins, dungeon master
Sean Ekins is a dungeon master – a storyteller within the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). While regular players create characters to play as within the game, he single-handedly creates mythical worlds and fantastical campaigns. Without dungeon masters, there would be no D&D as we know it – they are the story. […]
Youth drawn to anime
You can sit on a train with a ghost, as it steers its way into the blue sea with piercing sunlight and drifting clouds that turn the skyline into a huge ink-wash painting. You can be immersed in colorful graphics, vibrant characters and the fantastical; be affected by battles against a variety of monsters with […]
Food can take you home again
While the owners of New Brunswick’s Chinese restaurants work long and hard catering to tastes differing from their own, they rarely make the news for positive reasons. But the Aquinian’s Sherry Han thought their stories are worth telling and found their pride, warmth, hard work and, most importantly, food helped her connect with both the […]
The magic of animation
When I was six, my mom brought a new television. Since then, I have been obsessed with the magical black box … especially animated movies and TV shows. Whether they were Tom and Jerry, Donald Duck, or some Japanese animations, I’m sure I have seen them. Except for my parents, animation is my best friend […]
It’s about flexibility of mind and body
It’s all about stretching. Stretching the mind. Downward dog elevates muscles you didn’t know were tense. The breaths are deep, your mind clears and the sweat drips down your body. It’s yoga, and it’s more then just exercise. I was the kind of person who thought yoga was silly. It’s like most fitness routines it […]
It’s about more then just being a body building
It didn’t always occur to James Vickers that he wanted to be a body builder. Or that he was even interested in fitness. But after realizing he wasn’t sure about who he was, losing interest in the things he used to enjoy, feeling disconnected from his friends, he turned to a different lifestyle and a […]