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Horizon: An Alternative to the Big E3 Presentations

Do the usual E3 gaming presentations leave you cold? Local gaming-culture website Venus Patrol is collaborating on an alternative. It's called Horizon and, while no details have been released, we imagine that a website with "We are video game romantics" as its unofficial slogan will bring games with a personal touch to the national spotlight. Read More | Comment »

2:55PM Mon. May. 20, James Renovitch

UT's Gaming Academy: Facts & Inferences

This past Monday the University of Texas sent out a press release announcing the creation of the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy. At the helm of the venture is local gaming luminary Warren Spector, whose résumé includes Ultima, Deus Ex, and more recently Epic Mickey. Here are the details as well as a bit of reading between the lines where necessary. Read More | Comment »

2:30PM Thu. May. 16, James Renovitch

BioWare to Fight New 'Star Wars'

Looks like local gaming house BioWare won't be packing up their Lightsabers any time soon. Disney Studios has just announced that the Austin-based firm will be part of a new deal with Electronic Arts to produce the next generation of Star Wars games. Read More | Comment »

5:30PM Mon. May. 6, Richard Whittaker

New Tech Conference Announced: CAPTIVATE

The GDC Online conference decided to move to LA last year leaving a hole that the Fantastic Arcade and SXSW Gaming Expo (impressive events in their own ways) just don't fill. Enter CAPTIVATE, a tech conference geared to indie creatives of all types. Toss in education-oriented programming and you have a grand idea that has until October to nail things down. Read More | Comment »

4:40PM Tue. Apr. 23, James Renovitch

Keita Takahashi Games Set to Debut Locally

This week our local independent video game collective's hit streak continues with two new games from Keita Takahashi, the childlike mind behind games like Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy. It's this Thursday, 7pm, at the North Door and completely free and open to the public. Keep reading if you need more convincing. But you shouldn't. Read More | Comment »

4:16PM Mon. Apr. 1, James Renovitch

Local Gaming Newsbites

Local developers have been hitting the game-conference circuit these past weeks, but that hasn't stopped them from dropping info on new and future releases. Read More | Comment »

10:00AM Mon. Apr. 1, James Renovitch

SyFy Puts on a Show of 'Defiance'

There are many things you expect to see during SXSW. A miniature version of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, courtesy of SyFy, is not necessarily on that list. Read More | Comment »

8:00AM Mon. Mar. 25, Richard Whittaker

Checking Out 'Computer Chess'

“This was my first mumblecore movie,” Austin filmmaker Andrew Bujalski joked yesterday, after a screening of his latest movie, Computer Chess. Read More | Comment »

11:23AM Tue. Mar. 12, Audra Schroeder

Local Gaming Kickstarters

Two local gaming folks have begun raising funds for their projects, albeit on two completely different scales. Read More | Comment »

12:16PM Fri. Mar. 8, James Renovitch

Playing With the Werewolves

March is a rough month in Austin – just nothing really happening over the next couple weeks. (Dang!) Not to worry. As the city tries to figure out something (anything) to do about these early spring doldrums, Austin’s low-fi gaming community has one word for you: werewolves. Read More | Comment »

10:54AM Wed. Mar. 6, Ashley Moreno

Upcoming Gaming Events

It's common knowledge: The SXSW Gaming Expo is going to be great. It's free. NASA's going to be there. Nintendo will be showing stuff. More on that in the big Interactive/Film issue coming out this Thursday. But surely there are other things going on in the robust gaming world of Austin. Well, yes, you inquisitive scamp, there are things going on. Read More | Comment »

11:24AM Tue. Mar. 5, James Renovitch

This Week's Waste of Time

It's been a while since I dropped some free browser games on you. What have you been doing all this time? Working? Well, that nonsense is about to come to a screeching halt with three games from some of my favorite developers. Seriously, stop what you're doing. Read More | Comment »

2:55PM Fri. Feb. 8, James Renovitch

IndieCade Annex presents: LOVE!

You're probably not going to the IndieCade Festival in New York, but you can get a little taste here at the premiere of IndieCade Annex. The theme is love, but unlike the upcoming greeting-card-fueled holiday, the Annex's relationships will be more platonic. Or should I say "play"tonic? Nope, I shouldn't have said it. Read More | Comment »

11:30AM Thu. Feb. 7, James Renovitch

Local App Alert: 'Tumblewords'

Released just last week by local independent studio Minicore, Tumblewords mixes the strategies of Boggle and Scrabble to create a different take on mobile word games. But is it enough to get noticed on the overcrowded App Store? Read More | Comment »

11:30AM Wed. Jan. 30, James Renovitch

Gaming Studio Junction Point Closes

It's been a rollercoaster of a week already for the Austin gaming scene. Following Vigil's closure last week and yesterday's announcement of Crytek opening a new studio comes the news that Junction Point – the studio behind Epic Mickey 1 and 2 and spearheaded by gaming legend Warren Spector – will close its doors. Read More | Comment »

12:21PM Tue. Jan. 29, James Renovitch

Crytek to Open Local Gaming Studio

After an unpleasant week for the local gaming industry (e.g., Vigil's closure), this week is looking up with the announcement that Crytek opened its first American office today here in Austin. They've tapped former Vigil co-owner David Adams to be the CEO of Crytek USA Corp., which kinda sounds like a supervillain organization, but we're cool with that. Read More | Comment »

3:35PM Mon. Jan. 28, James Renovitch

Local Game Studio Vigil to Close

The death throes have subsided for gaming developer and publisher THQ which filed for bankruptcy last month. The studios that comprise it have largely been sold off in an auction, but local studio Vigil did not make the sale, leaving it to linger in Chapter 11 limbo. Read More | Comment »

2:54PM Wed. Jan. 23, James Renovitch

App Alert: 'Hundreds'

There's something refreshing about a game with enough simplicity and clarity as to not require tutorials. A game where playing is all that is needed for full comprehension. Hundreds – a new game for Apple phones and pads from local developer Adam Saltsman, his partner at Semi Secret Software Eric Johnson, and Chicago's Greg Wohlwend – is such a game. Read More | Comment »

3:16PM Tue. Jan. 8, James Renovitch

NRA: Don't Blame Guns, Blame Kung Lao

Relax, everyone! The National Rifle Association has finally broken its silence over the Sandy Hook massacre, and announced that it was comic books Marilyn Manson Hollywood and the video game industry to blame. Read More | Comment »

2:18PM Fri. Dec. 21, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Local Gaming News-Bites

Looking at our print issue this week you’d think the Austin gaming scene is all Adam Saltsman all the time. Yes, Saltsman is a badass, but just because there’s limited space on paper doesn’t mean other locals aren’t making waves. Enter the internet and its unending capacity for info. Read More | Comment »

12:30PM Thu. Dec. 13, 2012, James Renovitch

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