Panelist, Co-founder of Girls on Games

Catherine is a Digital Designer turned Game Dev who started gaming and dabbling with computers at the tender age of 5. She since traded DOS commands for HTML/CSS and NES games for RPGs. She also has a healthy love of cooking, cartoons, movies and music.

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GoGCast 253: Video Game Digital Events and PlayStation 5 DualSense Controller

Leah Jewer, Catherine Smith-Desbiens and Alicia Alexandra·April 10, 2020

It’s another chill episode of the GoGCast this week. We chat a bit more about Yakuza 0 and Animal Crossing:...

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GoGCast 252: The Games We’re Currently Playing

Leah Jewer, Catherine Smith-Desbiens, Alicia Alexandra and Simon Marcoux·April 4, 2020

In this episode, we talk about the games we’re currently playing because it’s what we’ve been doing: staying in and...

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GoGCast 251: Animal Crossing New Horizons and MLB The Show 20

Leah Jewer, Catherine Smith-Desbiens, Simon Marcoux and Pascal Vézina·March 27, 2020

As we stay home and safe, we find our happy place playing games. Pascal, our resident sports reviewer, joins us to review MLB The Show 20 and discuss the format of sports games in general. He and Leah also review...

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GoGCast 250: Ask Us Anything – Special Call-in Show

Catherine Smith-Desbiens, Leah Jewer, Simon Marcoux and Alicia Alexandra·March 20, 2020

You asked them, we answered them! To celebrate our 250th episode, we answer your burning questions about the show, about...

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GoGCast 249: Bless Unleashed, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, E3 cancelled

Catherine Smith-Desbiens, Leah Jewer, Alicia Alexandra and Simon Marcoux·March 13, 2020

2020 is not E3’s year, quite literally. After many hits to the event’s glamour, E3 2020 was officially cancelled due...

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Nintendo Switch & Joy-Cons. Photo: Leah Jewer / Girls on Games

GoGcast 248: 3 Years of Nintendo Switch

Leah Jewer, Catherine Smith-Desbiens and Simon Marcoux·March 7, 2020

Happy birthday to the Nintendo Switch! 🥳 It was 3 years ago that codename Nintendo NX was announced as the Nintendo Switch: a console for home and on the go. We reminisce about our time with the console: what were...

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GoGCast 247: Two Point Hospital, Xbox Series X and more Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Catherine Smith-Desbiens, Leah Jewer, Alicia Alexandra and Simon Marcoux·February 28, 2020

Gather around villagers and would-be travellers, Ali excitedly discusses everything announced in the Animal Crossing: New Horizon direct during this...

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