Everything happening in the Ontario video games industry this week courtesy of Interactive Ontario and CONTINUE!

Finish Line Drops Robots Of Midnight!

Toronto’s Finish Line Games officially launched Robots of Midnight, a visually striking action-adventure now available for PC and Xbox Series X|S. The atmospheric sci-fi title showcases cinematic combat, rich storytelling, and a dystopian world brought to life by a veteran Toronto studio. 

Watch the official launch trailer here and grab the game on Steam.

Capy Castaway Outdoor Demo

Ontario based Kitten Cup Studio and publisher Big Blue Sky Games hosted an engaging outdoor showcase at Grange Park on June 14. Attendees got hands-on with Capy Castaway, a charming adventure-puzzle inspired by local stories – featuring Toronto nods like High Park capybaras and the Toronto Islands. The duo dynamic of Capy (a capybara) and Corvi (a sarcastic crow) impressed fans, as did the team’s emphasis on cozy, intuitive play and memorable music. 

More info on the event here. 

Pixel Power Play Rocks The House!

The Pixel Power Play showcase at Toronto Games Week 2025 brought together a diverse lineup of Canadian indie and AAA games, including standouts like HANGRY, Carpe Dino, Elsewhere Electric, and Neo Harbor Rescue Squad. Hosted at the Red Bull Media Centre and streamed on Twitch, the event featured live gameplay demos, rapid-fire showcases, and developer interviews highlighting Canada’s creative game development scene.

See all the games featured as part of Pixel Power Play showcase over on Steam here.

Fan Favourites: Giant Video Games and The G.R.I.D.

The citywide Toronto Games Week kicked off with GIANT VIDEO GAMES at the Malting Silos at Bathurst Quay Park, where the silos became a colossal playable installation that turned the waterfront into a public arcade featuring games made by local studios.

The annual XP Game Summit returned June 12-13 and brought together hundreds of video game and XR professionals and publishers from around the world for two days of talks, demos, and networking in the heart of downtown Toronto. An increasingly important destination for game dealmaking, according to XP over $10 million worth of deals were signed at the event this year.

Meanwhile, The G.R.I.D. transformed George Brown College into an experimental game testing space for local game developers, a place for them to show off unreleased games and get honest feedback from the community.

See more highlights from Toronto Games Week below:

VRTO Conference Celebrates 10 Years of Virtual Innovation!

The VRTO Conference returns June 25–26, 2025, marking a decade of groundbreaking exploration in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. This milestone event brings together creators, developers, entrepreneurs, and technologists for two days of immersive talks, networking, and discovery. Hosted in Toronto, VRTO is more than a conference – it’s a think tank, production studio, and hub for cutting-edge ideas in XR.

Full details here.

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