Devastating news for fans of pioneering online studio Rooster Teeth, and for its many employees and contractors in Austin and beyond: the creative force behind Red vs. Blue, RWBY, gen:LOCK and more is closing.

South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to Song and his directorial debut, Lost River. But now he's bringing his Hollywood action hero persona to town with the world premiere of The Fall Guy, an eagerly awaited blockbuster reboot of the 1980s action-comedy television series.

When South by Southwest says it covers all media, it’s not kidding, as reconfirmed by this morning’s announcement that podcast publisher iHeartMedia will be bringing the iHeartPodcast Awards to the festival in 2024 for its first live event in three years.

If Rooster Teeth was the biggest pop culture phenomenon from Austin that no Austinites knew about, RTX was the biggest event that locals overlooked. The annual convention drew tens of thousands of fans of the nerd-friendly streaming studio to Austin for what felt like a family gathering: but the family will gather no more.

2023 will go down as the year of strikes, as SAG-AFTRA and the WGA took action to protect their members from an AI-infested future and unfair streaming deals: but what were the film, TV, podcasting and streaming stories you cared about the most?

What's the worst thing that Jack Pattillo has eaten for charity? The Rooster Teeth mainstay and organizer of the annual RT Extra Life stream-a-thon ponders for a second. “I had a pickled ball last year,” he concludes.

For the last 10 years, it's been impossible to talk about Austin online leviathan Rooster Teeth without talking about its anime crossover smash, RWBY. But there was some surprising news today at the RWBY panel at the annual RTX convention: There is still no word on volume 10.

Cue the tense music! Attendees at this morning's Rooster Teeth Animation: Behind the Frames panel at the RTX convention got some huge news and a first glimpse at the next phase in the franchise that built Rooster Teeth, groundbreaking machinima series Red vs. Blue.

In 2018, construction crews working on a new school in Sugar Land, Texas, discovered 95 bodies in unmarked graves.