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It’s true that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is wicked. Yes, God of War III will rock. And, most likely, Heavy Rain is a strong GOTY contender. But if you’re the type who knows enough about games to know what the hell the previous three sentences mean, you also know that you can find all this out (and more) on the myriad Toronto-based gaming sites out there as they release their coverage of the Sony Playstation Preview Event over the next few days. Indeed, as much as some of us here love playing with our joysticks (quiet, you), it really all comes down to what Tuesday’s shindig had to do with Toronto. After all, this is Torontoist, not Today in Gameplay.

One of the myriad press releases that made a brief and unremarkable splash in the tech feed pool this week announced the fifth anniversary of the Vortex Game Competition, an annual contest/boot camp/conference that has enjoyed varying levels of success among Toronto gaming circles since 2004. Slogging through the three pages of shiny, marketing-fresh copy may turn off many a young gamer who would otherwise be interested in such an event, but a little reading between the lines reveals that, win or fail, this year’s Vortex holds some secret networking opportunities for aspiring designers/developers hoping to gain an edge on some pretty exciting developments in the Toronto gaming industry (hint: Ubisoft! And Dragons’ Den!).

Toronto is going to play itself in the upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, but just as exciting is the news that you'll be able to play in Toronto in the upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. The World video game, to be developed by Ubisoft. The news has been floating around the wires since Bryan Lee O'Malley let it slip during a San Diego Comic Con panel, and Ubisoft (who only recently announced their intention to found an 800 person–strong game development studio here in Toronto) expect the game to launch roughly the same time as the film (in 2010). O'Malley himself states "no platform has been announced yet," but promises "it's being made by huge fans of the books and it's a passion project for a lot of people ... So just sit back and wait and every time they announce some information you'll be like 'OH MY GOD WOO.'" Our only hope is that it maintains all the retro-cool of the mock-up screenshots from the back of volume five...