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Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Links to the Casual Revolution
You've read the feature story, now click the blog
"...Now that you've read the casual gaming feature and taken some time to let the..."
Feb. 18, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch
Local Games on the Horizon
Releases to purchase, look forward to, and KickStart
"...Can't keep up with all the local games to buy, support, and/or anticipate? Me neither, but here's..."
July 23, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch
The Best Places to Play Board Games in Austin
Find a good tabletop to throw down and throw dice with friends
"...childhood traumas and embrace the new wave of board games. They are legion, they are varied, and sometimes (yes,..."
Feb. 7, 2018 Events Post by Josh Kupecki
X Games Austin 2016
"...This year's iteration of ESPN's X Games will be the third and final year hosted in..."
June 3, 2016 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan
Games Gift Guide
A smattering of kids games for gifting
"...Video games aimed at little kids are usually short knockoffs of..."
Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Eric Sebesta
X Games: Kanye West Touches the Sky
Godlike MC ushers in his 37th birthday with a commanding set
"...Saturday night at the X Games, his first time on a public stage since his..."
June 9, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger
'Complexities' of Modernity Just Shades of Same Geopolitical Games
"...a vital point somewhere along the way. Besides, a casual student of history would note that the so-called "complexities"..."
Jan. 17, 2009 Postmarks
This Week's Waste of Time
What makes a game a Waste of Time?
"...the lengthy New York Times Magazine article about "stupid games" (their words, not mine) like Angry Birds. Somewhere in..."
April 9, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch
SXSW Interactive Bytes
Game Design Competitions recap
"...Game Design Competition/Casual GamesSunday, March 15, 3:30-4:30pm, Room 6 Game Design Competition/AAASunday,..."
March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Tomboy
In this French film a 10-year-old girl moves into a new neighborhood and pretends to be a boy because, well, it seems like boys just have more fun.
"...This French import is as casual as the summer afternoons of childhood that it depicts...."
Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Munich
Munich is dense, thoughtful filmmaking that nonetheless flies along: Seething not only with multilayered, subtextual arguments, it’s also a heck of a thriller.
"...of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich by the PLO faction Black September is..."
Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Oscar winner documents the collapse of Enron in vivid detail and with cinematic flourish.
"...devastated its swindled employees, stockholders, business associates, and even casual observers – is put under the microscope in Gibney’s..."
April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Video Game Gift Guide
Downloadable edition
"...Downloadable video games get short shrift during the holidays. Sure, there's cyber..."
Dec. 2, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch
BioWare to Fight New Star Wars
Locally based Mass Effect creators one of three firms on new games
"...Arts to produce the next generation of Star Wars games...."
May 6, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
SXSW Interactive Keynote: Julie Uhrman
Founder and CEO of OUYA, an "open-source" gaming console
"...a gaming console that is designed to get smaller games that have been relegated to touchscreens and PCs and..."
Dec. 11, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch
What I Learned at Fantastic Arcade: Saturday
or, where have all the fishermen gone
"...to tear yourself away from all those sweet, sweet games that beckon players to them. Here's what I found..."
Sept. 25, 2011 Screens Post by James Renovitch
KEYE to Air Titans Season Opener, not Texans
"...previously poorly performing Texans have done little to earn casual fans' loyalty. The new-look Texans have their deepest roster..."
Sept. 7, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan
This Week's Waste of Time
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Text-Based Adventure Gaming
"...to take a week off from pandering to the casual gamer and offer something only a true dork could..."
June 11, 2009 Screens Post by James Renovitch
A Bedtime Gorey
This view of an upper-crust world both morbid and lively should please die-hard and casual Gorey fans alike
"...bold adventures and proclivities and play a few "parlor games" for their own delight. The audience, too, is frequently..."
Dec. 6, 2013 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
This Week's Waste of Time
Free online video games to gift and regift
"...browser game? Recommend these playable nominees for the Independent Games Festival and the giftee will be on the cutting..."
Dec. 3, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch
The Story Behind the "I'm So Gonna Vote" Stickers
How a sandlot baseball club got inspired to turn out the vote
"...final decision: Los Diablitos de El Paso. This singular, casual choice took Jack Sanders and his team headlong into..."
Sept. 27, 2018 News Post by Hannah Wisterman
Keep It on the Download
Gaming, the agoraphobic way
"...offer downloadable content to stay small and capture the casual market. The casual gamer isn't wowed by hi-def bells..."
Feb. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Down the Rabbit Hole
The weird, ever-evolving world of ARGs
"...a textbook case of paranoid schizophrenia, the alternate reality games industry calls Hon's seemingly mistaken discovery the act of..."
Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Carson Barker
Stop Writing ...
and Start Storytelling
"...but the balance has shifted away from writing in games – maybe for the best...."
Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Joey Seiler
The French
Astounding record of life on and off court in tennis's glory years
"...was, in fact, the poster image for the 1981 games. Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Chris Evert (then known as..."
June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
In Play
The year in gaming
"...2? Simple: It understands the tools that make video games unique from other art forms. Dumped into a grayscale..."
Jan. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Is Austin Big Enough for Both MLS and USL Soccer Teams?
Rival sports titans square off in soccer city
"...big crowds for concerts, sporting events like the X Games, and even Bernie Sanders. Although the McKalla Place stadium..."
June 28, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Console Wars: The Saga Continues
Sizing up the video-game platforms
"...half-baked and have little replayability. Even the touted fitness games are slowly garnering criticism for overblown expectations, but Wii..."
Nov. 20, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
The Game Is All
We catch up with some major players in Austin's gaming universe
"...Who knows exactly how many people develop games in Austin, but in early September, 1,700 people paid..."
