Role-Play Playing

When improv asks, 'Can we get a suggestion for something you'd slay a dragon with?'

"...Roberts, sketch and improv comedian, plays a lot of video games. Would he say that he plays a fuckton..."

June 19, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

This is a winning, sweet, and occasionally disturbing documentary about otherwise sensible adults who vie for the title of World's Best Donkey Kong Player.

"...Directed by: Seth Gordon. Video games are the future of entertainment, we've been told..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Between Days

Austin's Gaming Community on Where It's at and Where It's Headed

"...us to really push the state-of-the-art in computer and video games over the next couple of years. Being able..."

April 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Brendan Sinclair

The Dudleys!: A Family Game

This ambitious new play imagines a family crisis as an 8-bit video game

"...Video games, especially since the advent of World of Warcraft..."

May 20, 2011 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

The final(?) nail in this action horror franchise

"...can tell you about this ultimate entry in the video-game movie franchise Resident Evil. I apologize. It is rare..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Wild Worlds of UT's Game Camp

Middle-schoolers learn that gaming is in the details

"...It's a video-game plot as old as time: a badass unicorn needs..."

July 26, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...game, Cow Clicker, about the insipid nature of Facebook games, but he also managed to write the year's best..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

Tom Bissell's latest book is an intelligent one-stop read that introduces modern gaming's big questions

"...Extra Lives: Why Video Games matterby Tom Bissell Pantheon, 240 pp., $22.95..."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Burn After Reading

ScreenBurn at SXSW Arcade: totally free, totally open to public

"...The civic-minded can get informed at the Video Game Voters Network booth. Honestly, if you're going to..."

March 5, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Speed Racer

The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight.

"...fun contained within a scant five minutes of Rockstar Games' new Grand Theft Auto IV video game than there..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Runnin' With the Wolf

One man takes on the used-game business model

"...Evoking an island of misfit toys, Game Over Videogames lingers on the north edge of Austin waiting to..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Letters at 3AM

Reflections on how Western civilization lost its moral authority.

"...from The Wall Street Journal. Both concern the bestselling video "games" of this Christmas season -- $10 billion in..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

The Lost Arcade and the Loss of Public Play

Doc tells the tale of a New York gaming institution in its final days

"...Presented by local video game collective Juegos Rancheros, The Lost Arcade is a..."

Nov. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Will McCarthy

Ouya: The People's Gaming Console

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

"...SXSW Interactive Keynote speaker Julie Uhrman, is an Android-based video game console based around the notion of lowering that..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Sean Carey

Joystick Junkies Unite

Pixelated panels and tourneys with no save point in sight

"...transformed into an old-timey (read: Eighties) arcade replete with games placed in those mammoth cabinets of yore. Spotlight games..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

The Mystic Western Game Jam Looks to the Stars

Local game collective Juegos Rancheros needs you to pick your favorite

"...it should come as no surprise that creators of video games should find ample inspiration in the mythical West..."

July 5, 2016 Screens Post by Tucker Whatley

Arcade Fire

Pastime becomes passion project becomes Pinballz

"...Hippos clunk-clunk-clunks away next to earthquake oddity Aftershock. Classic video games like Star Wars and Popeye nestle next to..."

April 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...indecently entertaining distillation of British World War II spy games, starring a 007 plucked from thin air (and featuring..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Top 10 Regional Sports Stories 2010

The ups and downs of a year in sports, regionally

"...beautiful new CPC host all the Texas Stars' home games, they've snagged the Austin Toros away from Downtown Austin...."

Jan. 7, 2011 Sports Feature by Mark Fagan

ScreenBurn Burns All

Arcade awesomeness

"...in rows. I was surprised to find not only video games, but a section of board and role-playing games..."

March 9, 2008 Screens Post by Carson Barker

Connective Issue

Web 2.0, online gaming, but everything's in-between

"...obsessed with something – veganism, World of Warcraft, or video editing – and he tends to make something out..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Scripting the War

Susan O'Connor's journey to game writing

"...upon her first writing gig, a script for a video game titled Girl Talk. "In 1998 I happened to..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

The Future Is in Flux for the Texas Film Incentive Program

Texas loses productions to states with bigger and better incentive programs

"...Incentive Program isn't just for cinema, but TV and video games, too. Now, as the program faces its toughest..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Arcade Gets the Closing Party It Deserves

Devolver Digital and Wild Rumpus team up to let loose

"...Affectionately known as You Guys Like Tequila?, the party..."

Sept. 16, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Teen Terrorist or Facebook Prankster?

Online gamer in jail on charge of posting a "terroristic threat" on Facebook

"...an 18-year-old who spent his free time playing online video games. Now he's 19, far from a computer, and..."

July 12, 2013 News Feature by Allistair Pinsof

A Gift for Every Gamer

Put yourself in the shoes of your gaming giftee and answer the following questions on your path to the perfect purchase.

"...chutes and where all the ladders end up at video games instead of illustrations of insufferable children. You know..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

'TopSpin 3' for the Xbox 360

"...watching tennis on TV. I even enjoy play tennis video games (VituaTennis anyone?). That said, 2K Sports' TopSpin 3..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Degrees of Design

The game-design programs at ACC and DeVry face off

"...left unquenched. This imbalance in the business of local video games is slowly provoking the rise of game-developing schools...."

June 15, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

High adventure and fun times in an unexpectedly entertaining sequel

"...kids are too cool for dice, it becomes a video game, hiding its secrets in a cartridge (look it..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Time to Come Out and Play

Game On highlights Texas gaming scene

"...role in the growth and evolution of the now-gargantuan video game industry, as chronicled by the "Pong to Pokémon"..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Screens Feature by Tucker Whatley

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