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NetEase Games Launches New Studio, T-Minus Zero Entertainment
The company will be located in Austin, Texas, and will be headed up by a few veteran game designers who have worked on titles like Doom, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age Not a lot of info was shared about the studio's first project beyond the one-liner that they're working on " an ambitious, third-person online[...]
Zynga Announces New Austin Studio To Work On A Star Wars Game
Some interesting news from Zynga this morning at the company revealed they've launched a new office in Austin, Texas This isn't a subsidiary studio or a weird satellite location, this is a secondary office in Austin that will be developing mobile games the same as their San Francisco location does. What's more, the company is looking[...]
Donny Cates on his Secret Origin in Comics, Interceptor, Dylan Brock and his Buffy The Vampire Slayer Pitch
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran the story that Donny Cates had been paying off the pull lists of customers at Austin Books And Comics in Texas (With permission from Donny Cates, okay, Reddit? Seriously now.) But it looks like it wasn't just one store and their customers who were the beneficiary of his generosity Dragon's Lair[...]
SXSW Announces 2020 SXSW Gaming Awards Nominees
We have the full list of nominees for you below, who will be in attendance at the ceremony happening on March 15th at 7pm at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin Aside from this list, they will also be giving out a few special awards They are the Game Industry Champion of Change Award going[...]
Ready Player One
South By Southwest (SXSW) is right around the corner, and that means details about events are starting to drop right and left.  Warner Brothers upcoming film adaptation of Austin native Ernie Cline's "Ready Player One" book is opening at the end of the month, and we were pretty sure there would be SOMETHING RP1 related during[...]
21 Of The 1200 Stolen Art Pieces Of Josh C Lyman
Yesterday we posted how Josh C Lyman had 1200 art prints stolen as a result of a burglary in Austin Today he has posted 21 of them that he has on file, just in case anyone sees these or anything like them out and about. Do, please, keep your eyes peeled… [...]