Tag Archives: Ottawa

Ottawa beats out Saskatchewan cities to host 2025 world juniors

Ottawa beats out Saskatchewan cities to host 2025 world juniors

SaskTel Centre. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM file photo)

Saskatoon and Regina won’t be teaming up to host the 2025 world junior hockey championship.

The Saskatchewan cities joined forces on a bid to stage the event, but on Thursday, Hockey Canada announced Ottawa will be the host city for the tournament.

The event is to be held in the nation’s capital from Dec. 26, 2024 to Jan. 5, 2025. Ottawa last hosted the tournament in 2009.

Saskatoon and Regina shared hosting duties in 2010 and had launched a bid to host the 2023 tournament as well. Hosting rights for that event went to Halifax and Moncton.

In April of this year, SaskTel Centre CEO John Howden said it spoke volumes that the Saskatchewan cities were approached by Hockey Canada to bid…


Source link

Play Life, Live Games column: Final ‘Friday’ patch will shut down game’s dedicated servers – Entertainment – The Ottawa Herald

Columns share an author’s personal perspective.
*****

Nov. 3 was a disappointing day for me and it had nothing to do with the election.

On the morning of Nov. 3, Gun Media announced that “Friday the 13th: The Game” was going to receive its final patch later this month, and with it the game’s dedicated servers would be shut off.

“We fought to keep dedicated servers for as long as possible, but I think we all felt this day was coming. Doesn’t make it any easier, though,” tweeted Wes Kelter, the head of Gun Media.

While the game does have some fun single-player modes, “Friday the 13th: The Game” is primarily a multiplayer-focused game where one person plays as the killer from the horror movie franchise Jason Voorhees and up to seven other people play as camp…


Source link