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  • Google’s AlphaGo sweeps Go pro Lee Sedol 3-0

    Google’s AlphaGo sweeps Go pro Lee Sedol 3-0

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    BY COLE WATSON Last week The Sheridan Sun live-blogged the third Go match between Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program and Lee Sedol, the top player of the past decade. Sedol had already lost the first two games in the best of five series and needed to win this match if he had any chance of winning…

  • Street Fighter V review: The game has evolved

    Street Fighter V review: The game has evolved

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    BY COLE WATSON Enter the arena, train as hard as you can and rise the ranks to become the strongest world warrior in Street Fighter V. It has been eight long years since Capcom’s iconic fighting game franchise received a new entry and the wait was well worth it for fans. The battles remain intense,…

  • Sony’s PlayStation keynote has lack of internal support

    Sony’s PlayStation keynote has lack of internal support

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    STORY AND VIDEO BY COLE WATSON Sony’s keynote presentation last week at PlayStation Experience in San Francisco gave exciting new announcements and details why gamers should stick with the PlayStation 4 for the coming years but it also left them asking what are the internal studios up to and why didn’t we see their games?…

  • Oakville told to learn to live with coyotes

    Oakville told to learn to live with coyotes

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    BY COLE WATSON Oakville residents received a howling message from city staff during a Town meeting at St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School that they will have to continue co-existing with wild coyotes. The Jan. 20 meeting had been called because citizens are afraid that the population of coyotes is rising from frequent sightings and that the animals…

  • Sheridan faculty showcased at illustration show

    Sheridan faculty showcased at illustration show

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    BY ERIN QUEENAN Fifty years of Toronto illustration history was celebrated last Thursday at a first of its kind art exhibit showcased at the John B. Aird gallery downtown Toronto. The Museum of The Street, curated by Bill Grigsby of Reactor Art Agency, and illustrator Gail Geltner, celebrated and preserved the works of 36 recognized…

  • Fun and games in San Francisco

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    STORY BY COLE WATSON Listen to Sheridan Sun Reporter Cole Watson’s journeys through San Francisco as he travels for the very first time. He attended Sony’s PlayStation Experience after his friend, Ryerson Journalism student Brad Shankar, won an all expenses paid trip to go to the event and invited him as a guest.

  • Fallout 4: Welcome home vault dwellers

    Fallout 4: Welcome home vault dwellers

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    BY COLE WATSON It has been a long five years since gamers first explored the bustling strip of Fallout New Vegas. Now vault-dwellers everywhere can safely come out of cryo sleep for the latest entry in Bethesda’s critically acclaimed franchise, Fallout 4. Fallout 4 opens with players creating their own character in the commonwealth of…

  • Players target fun and fitness at Mississauga’s Archery Terminal

    Players target fun and fitness at Mississauga’s Archery Terminal

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    STORY BY COLE WATSON If you’ve watched Arrow or The Hunger Games, you may have wondered what the sport of archery is like. Archery tag is a new recreational activity that allows you to fulfill your fantasy with friends. “It’s a great way to stay active with friends and family,” said Ray Fung, co-owner of…

  • Works in progress performed at festival

    Works in progress performed at festival

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    STORY BY COLE WATSON AND MEDIA BY ERIN QUEENAN Music Director Neil Bartman and author Brian Hill presented the first act of their new musical, Senza Luce, at Sheridan’s second annual Canadian Music Theatre Project festival. The show was created with the help of producer, Michael Rubinoff, who loved the idea the duo had created.…

  • Sheridan to perform six musicals this season

    Sheridan to perform six musicals this season

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    STORY BY COLE WATSON This season Sheridan’s Performing Arts students will put on six productions. Before the production year begins The Canadian Music Theatre Project will be holding its second annual Festival of New Musicals from Oct 8 to 10 at Sheridan’s studio theatre at Trafalgar Campus. The project, led by producer Michael Rubinoff, wants…

  • Encore in the works for award-winning Brantwood

    Encore in the works for award-winning Brantwood

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    STORY BY COLE WATSON Sheridan’s ambitious musical Brantwood 1920-2020 has piqued international interest and won a Dora Mavor Moore award, which recognizes excellence in Toronto theatre. The musical was nominated for the Audience Choice Award with the support of Steve Fisher, a blogger at the Torontoist.com, and won the award for Outstanding Production of 2015.…

  • A session with virtual reality

    A session with virtual reality

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    BY COLE WATSON Being a consumer of entertainment, I have read, watched and interacted with all kinds of stories in multiple ways but I experienced a new level of immersion when I put on the virtual reality headset known as the Oculus Rift. With the help of Randall Kapuscinski, A professor involved in Sheridan’s Journalism…