The Rec Room brings amusement, gaming and dining experiences to Toronto

Toronto social seekers now have a new hot-spot for ‘Eats and Entertainment,’ with the opening of the city’s first location of The Rec Room at the Roundhouse.  Located at 255 Bremner Boulevard – just across from the CN Tower, Ripley’s Aquarium and Rogers Centre – The Rec Room brings together incredible dining experiences with exciting live entertainment and amusement gaming experiences, all under one roof. 

Visit Cineplex.com/TheRecRoomToronto to watch a video tour of The Rec Room.\ With half of the over 40,000 square foot complex devoted to dining and live entertainment and the other half devoted to amusement games and attractions, The Rec Room is the perfect destination for a night out with friends, group celebrations and corporate events.  And with a huge outdoor patio that features incredible city skyline views, it is sure to become the go-to destination for area residents and the millions of tourists who visit the area each year.

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Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winners Announced

Rakuten Kobo announced this year's Emerging Writer Prize recipients -- the best Canadian authors of debut books who published in 2016 calendar year. Winners were selected among a shortlist of talented Canadian authors, chosen by Kobo's team of booksellers, with book completion rates, customer ratings and reviews taken into consideration. A winner in each of the Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Non-Fiction categories receives a $10,000 CAD cash prize as well as promotional, marketing, and communications support to help kick off their burgeoning careers. Hit jump for the winners!

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Quick tip: You can see songs that have been pulled from Spotify

Here’s a quick tip you Spotify users might or might not know. By default the music streaming service hides the songs that have been pulled from its service. But if you want to check if a particular song is out of its roster, you can head to settings, which is located at the cog wheel on the upper right corner of Your Library section and just select Show unplayable songs/Show unavailable songs in playlists. If you’re on the desktop client, head to Edit > Preferences and then scroll down to Display Options. From there, you can see grayed out song titles. It won’t show any information if the song is coming back or why it left in the first place. But if you want to see which songs you might want to download so you can have them in your collection, this is a good thing to turn on.

Source: The Verge

Nintendo fans clamor for ‘Mother 3’ after ‘Star Fox 2’ release announcement

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Following the announcement of the unreleased Star Fox 2 being bundled into the upcoming SNES Classic Edition, Western Nintendo fans have started to ask Nintendo to bring Mother 3 back, too. The game was released on Game Boy Advance in Japan and never made it out of the country. With the logic that Mother 3 was a completed game, it seems like a reasonable request from fans that the game be made available worldwide.

Star Fox 2 wasn’t released after consumer attitudes changed when the PlayStation was released. Meanwhile, sales of EarthBound back in the SNES days were so poor that it seemed Mother 3 was unmarketable outside of Japan. The Mother series though has been gaining awareness and reputation after its characters appeared in Super Smash Bros. games. We can’t say if the clamor for it is enough for Nintendo to consider releasing the game. But Nintendo has surprised us before so we hold out hope for it.

Source: Polygon