ATX Games Up for Steam Greenlight

Winners get backing of web behemoth

"...of you, it's pretty much the AppStore for video games. Unlike the AppStore, Steam cherry picks the games featured..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Playing Games with Pain

Laubenberg bill would ban abortion after ‘fetal pain’

"...Perry, and other backers of the bill consider the notion that a fetus feels pain at 20 weeks is..."

April 15, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Power Up

SXSW Gaming Expo and 'The Austin Chronicle' present Game On Austin

"...this case is come out and play some great games. That's not so hard, is it?..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Love and Basketball

A young woman learns to navigate the hoops on and off the court.

"...title suggests, our story draws parallels between two all-consuming “games” that can exert antagonistic, possibly even mutually exclusive pulls..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Cable Guy

"...films. His first, the unoffensive Reality Bites, took the notion of Generation X and hung it out to dry,..."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What to Expect From Game On Austin

A clickable guide to the participating studios and their games

"...Art, a retro gaming lounge courtesy of Game Over Videogames, and tunes provided by GeminiRadio. All that for just..."

Oct. 18, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Toros Finish Busy Week With Lopsided Win

Leo Lyons named to All-Star team

"...is right about at the two-thirds point. With 34 games down and just 16 to go, the Austin Toros..."

Feb. 25, 2012 Sports Post by Will Schmidt

This Week's Waste of Time

Web Testing Your Intelligence for Free. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

"...After weeks of free video games as art, I figure it's time to please the..."

Aug. 27, 2009 Screens Post by James Renovitch

SXSW Panel Recap: Gaming Goes Academic

Drew Davidson on analyzing and valuing video games

"...Drew Davidson’s thesis is hardly new — that “video games are a complex medium that merits careful interpretation and..."

March 14, 2015 SXSW Post by Andy Campbell

Documentary GameChangers Will Change How You Look at E-Sports

Producer Peter Billingsley on high-stakes professional videogaming

"...in headsets in the basements" myth. E-sports – playing games like StarCraft II competitively, for big-money prizes – is..."

June 19, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Weekend in Film

Some closer inspection required

"...the whole. Come to the theatre and witness this notion in play with these new releases. Alternatively, last week's..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

God Votes Right

The Texas Republicans Gather in Dallas to Pray

"...-- and called for a return to the Puritanical notion that a law degree should always be preceded by..."

June 14, 2002 News Column by Michael King

The Full Monty

With the release of 'RWBY,' Monty Oum is officially Rooster Teeth's rock star

"...opted to take a position with the now-defunct Midway Games. "After 'Haloid,' I was contacted by a few different..."

July 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Playing on the Past

"...ache in your button thumb --a remembrance of video games past...."

June 11, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

The Verde Report: Referee Ismail Elfath on a World Cup Final for the Ages

In part two of our chat, the Austinite discusses his time on soccer’s biggest stage

"...players… if you think they’re emotional during their league games, this is a World Cup Final! So I also..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Sports Column by Eric Goodman

Ouya: The People's Gaming Console

Could Julie Uhrman's Kickstarted project be the innovation the gaming industry was waiting for?

"...is an Android-based video game console based around the notion of lowering that barrier of entry. Unlike any living..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Sean Carey

Overnight Sensation

Sword of Dracula' creator Jason Henderson is taking over the (fantasy) world

"...its love of fantasy, be it cinematic, literary, video games, or, more to the point, comic books, Jason Henderson..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...You stated, "even the notion that Hussein can acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon is..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column

Croupier

"...first glimpse of Jack does nothing to dissuade the notion that this is a man to watch out for...."

June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...on a coupleÕs (Beals and Calderon) violent psychosexual head games that also goes nowhere (though Beals shines, even with..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Sleepless in Cyberia

Go Ahead -- Be Somebody Else

"...Actual role-play games on AOL offer a myriad of ways for characters..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Screens Feature

Texas Football Should Be Good This Year

We mean it this time!

"...scares you … which may be the most terrifying notion possible for scarred and weary UT fans...."

Aug. 18, 2023 Sports Feature by Eric Goodman

What’cha Watchin’?

Web Editor James Renovich loves the sweet abominations of Polygon's Monster Factory

"...Decades of playing video games have ruined me for noninteractive entertainment. My Netflix, Amazon,..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Screens Column

Sinking Deeper

Robin Arnott explores the outer limits of video-game immersion

"...number of indie game designers who have abandoned the notion that video games should be fun, choosing instead to..."

April 15, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...tableaux, from abstract movement to African dance, from children's games to yoga poses, all the while speaking in an..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Coach's Corner

"...wants out of the Dome. They have the improbable notion someone, somehow, is going to build a special, highly..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Austin Musicians of Color Talk About the Pandemic's Outsized Impact on Their Communities

COVID-19 extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality

"...a reality TV show – like all three Hunger Games movies in succession...."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Letters at 3AM: Musicians of Behavior

Actors are musicians of behavior

"...change our own lives, to encourage the profound spiritual notion of our flexible identity."..."

May 2, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: Race Does Matter

Sotomayor on the willfulness of judicial 'colorblindness'

"...black people – he'd prefer they didn't attend the games of the Clippers' mostly black players – though he's..."

May 2, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Letters at 3AM: The Bad and the Beautiful

Film noir cuts through the cant of America's idealism

"...on our own terms. Losing is a given. What notion could be more un-American?..."

May 20, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

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