Interviews – Eggplante!

Hands-on Impressions and Interview: Nier Automata

November 23, 2016

While attending a recent Square Enix media summit, I was given the honour of being one of the first people outside of Square Enix to play-test a demo build of their upcoming action-RPG sequel, Nier: Automata. A...

E3 Interview: Hyrule Warriors producers Hisashi Koinuma and Yosuke Hayashi

Christopher Kalanderopoulos

June 17, 2014

E3 2014, Gaming, Interviews

As we wrapped E3 2014, we posted our exclusive interview with Mr. Eiji Aonuma, director and producer of The Legend of Zelda. We were also fortunate enough to interview Mr. Hisashi Koinuma and Mr. Yosuke Hayashi...

E3 Interview: Takashi Tezuka, Nintendo

Christopher Kalanderopoulos

June 12, 2014

E3 2014, Gaming, Interviews, News

On Tuesday, we were afforded the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Takashi Tezuka, Executive Officer and Producer of many titles at Nintendo, most recently Mario Maker and Yoshi's Woolly World for Wii U. Eggp...

Interview with Senior Producer of Injustice: Gods Among Us

Max Shimada

April 5, 2013

Gaming, Interviews, News

Eggplante guest contributor Jason MacIsaac was gracious enough to share an interview he did with Adam Urbano, Senior Producer on Injustice: Gods Among Us. Let him know what you think of his work by reaching out...

The gaming bubble we live in.

Christopher Kalanderopoulos

December 9, 2012

Gaming, Interviews, News

There's a very eye-opening article published by Wired this month. The article actually discusses the "bland" box art of Ken Levine's BioShock Infinite, but in the interview where he defends the artwork, there a...

Nintendo’s Matt Ryan talks Wii U

Christopher Kalanderopoulos

October 27, 2012

Gaming, Interviews, News

Nintendo held their annual Holiday Showcase event in Toronto and Montreal this week. While in Toronto, we caught up with Nintendo of Canada's spokesperson Matt Ryan to discuss the Wii U and what it's bringing t...

A Chat with Warren Spector

Christopher Kalanderopoulos

October 20, 2012

Gaming, Interviews, News

Earlier this week, Digifest 2012, Toronto's Digital Media Festival, took place in the Corus Entertainment building downtown. Of course, there was a gaming component to the event, and we had the honour to sit do...

Tommy Tallarico talking in Toronto!

Christopher Kalanderopoulos

May 3, 2011

Concerts, Gaming, Interviews, Music

That title is an alliteration win if I've ever seen one. So I've seen Video Games Live three times now, but ironically, none of those times have actually been in the city where I live. So I figured that I'd he...

Interview: Scott Jones of Reviews on the Run

Christopher Kalanderopoulos

September 7, 2010

Fan Expo 2010, Gaming, Interviews

If you don't know who Scott Jones and Victor Lucas are, you don't deserve to call yourself a gamer. At least, not a Canadian one. If you do know them, good job, you pass the (first) test. The second is whethe...

Interview: Victor Lucas

Christopher Kalanderopoulos

August 31, 2009

Fan Expo 2009, Gaming, Interviews

My brother and I grew up watching a quirky Canadian video game show called Electric Playground. 14 years and 18 seasons later, the concept evolved into two shows, has had over a dozen hosts, and spawned the b...