The Cosplayers of Comic Con

 Ottawa Life’s Festival City Series is back! We'll provide a unique look at some of your favourite events. We’ll go beyond the music with artist interviews, volunteer profiles, concert reviews and spotlights on the tastes, sights and sounds of the festival season.  Your city! Your festivals! Like a good sunscreen, Ottawa Life

Take a Leap into the World of Video Games at PAX East 2017

 Photos taken by Isabel Payne. Logo belongs to PAX East.  Each year, tens of thousands of gaming fans descend upon Boston for a weekend of sublime overindulgence on all things video games. What began in 2004 as a smallish convention in Bellevue, Washington dedicated towards gaming, has blown up over

#OLMGamer- Games You Should Be Excited About in 2017

 A brand new year of gaming is around the corner! This upcoming year with full of exciting releases in the gaming world. We’ve got new consoles headed our way, along with a tonne of extremely exciting upcoming releases. We’ve decided to share our list of games we think you should be

#OLMGamer E3 2016 Top 10 Roundup

 A look at the new protagonist from Mass Effect: Andromeda Every gamer’s favourite time of the year has come and gone. Electronic Entertainment Expo (otherwise known as E3) brings together creative minds from every corner of the electronic entertainment industry. Held in Los Angeles, the industry-only event showcases new projects,

Putting the “Science” in “Science Fiction” – Monomolecular Blades

 Science fiction movies and books portray a dazzling variety of imaginative melee weapons, despite their rarity in modern combat. In previous articles I have discussed lightsabers, vibroblades, and chainswords, but this is far from an extensive list. Another melee weapon that is common throughout science fiction is the monomolecular blade.

Putting the “Science” in “Science Fiction” – Space Travel 2: Plasma Engine

 In my previous blog, I wrote about the ion engine, one of the main avenues of research into alternative methods of space flight. There has been a great deal of research into ion engines, but scientists are examining other technologies that would allow “warp drive” interplanetary and interstellar travel. One