Brandon is editor-in-chief of Game Developer magazine, and freelance game writer. He's made significant contributions to four titles thus far in the latter capacity, and so can deftly fake the idea that he knows what he is talking about.
He likes 2D fighters, scrolling shooters, tactics RPGs, 2D platformers that aren't garbage, 90% of everything on the pc engine, and horribly broken budget titles. If you make any of those, he will probably want to talk to you about it.
It could potentially be viewed as confusing, but these aren't claimed to be the first video game awards in canada, they're the first Canadian Video Game Awards - it's simply what the awards are called
Wyatt I think flak for IOSYS is trumped by the fact they're making a proper living for themselves, potentially. I've been a fan of Murasame's work since Dicing Knight for the WonderWitch competitions.
Sean has a point there - and Sega specifically has not at all been demonstrating lately that it knows how to work with western developers in a collaborative way. Quite the opposite, rather.