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Brandon Wainerdi went to Westworld for Bleeding Cool… or had he been there all along? He writes: After going to South by Southwest (SXSW) for the past five years, it is very tough for an activation to impress me This year, however, HBO pulled out all the stops, taking their much-hyped San Diego-Comic Con Westworld experience[...]

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[...]

Oh, look, DC Comics has a new logo, especially for the SXSW occasion next week! Warner Bros Television and DC are inviting fans into their SXSWXDC Super Hero lair for the duration of SXSW (March 9th–18th) The DC/WBTV bunker will not only feature the House of El's origin story with the upcoming SYFY drama Krypton (premiering March 21st), but[...]

The SXSW Gaming lineup is slowing growing as we approach the lengthy Austin-based festival Today, it was announced a brand new panel would be added as Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert from Cloud9 will be joining the panel lineup Below are some of the details from the panel description, as it appears those in attendance will be getting[...]

If you're going to be at SXSW in March, mark your calendars for March 16th as there will be a very special panel dedicated to Sonic The Hedgehog that is supposed to have a major reveal of what's next for the Sega mascot The panel will feature Jasmine Hernandez, Tyson Hesse, Takashi Iizuka, Austin Keys,[...]

While at SXSW a couple weeks ago, there was a startling amount of panels, movies, and TV shows one could attend Featuring films that aren't going to be hitting theaters for months and panels with news on upcoming shows, there was a wealth of information to be found. One of the panels I went to was[...]

Last night, SXSW held their annual Gaming Awards on the second to last day of the massive entertainment festival The event was hosted by Austin Creed (WWE's Xavier Woods) and OMGitsfirefoxx, with appearances from Jacksepticeye, Rachel Quirico, Markiplier, Janet Varney, Starbomb, and Cirque du Soleil Sadly, for anyone outside of Austin, the event didn't receive as much[...]

The Game of Thrones panel at South by Southwest today was met with mixed reactions by longtime fans of both the HBO series as well as the original books.

While at SXSW this weekend promoting his new film Alien: Covenant, EW.com asked director Ridley Scott about his long rumored sequel to the 2000 film Gladiator The movie won five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe, it also pulled in over $450 million at the box office So a follow up[...]

SXSW is in full swing and 20th Century Fox hosted a press event and roundtable for their upcoming Prometheus sequel and Alien prequel, Alien: Covenant With Director Sir Ridley Scott, and actors Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride talking about the film they also fielded a few questions to the energized audience. Responding to one question about the[...]

HBO has just released this teasiest of teaser posters for Game of Thrones Season 7 at SXSW (via EW today) Looks like some fire and ice in this teaser poster, at least. HBO started filming season 7 in August, 2016, and it is generally believed the season will debut in "mid-2017" Game of Thrones showrunners David[...]

One of the best things about SXSW over the years is that you don't have to officially be a part of the festival to see great music during the festival Austin as a whole turns into a hub of impromptu venues for musicians both visiting and officially performing If you've never been to SXSW, here's[...]

They are making their Austin debut at SXSW Gaming on Friday, March 18th for a panel entitled "Women in Digital Comics," featuring 2 Broke Girls' star Beth Behrs (Dents), digital star Michelle Phan (Helios : Femina), LINE Webtoon creators Kaitlyn Narvaza (Where Tangents Meet) and Susanna Nousiainen (ShootAround), and second place winner of LINE Webtoon's recent Superhero[...]

Yesterday, we reported on the decision by SXSW to cancel two panels which, rightly or wrongly, people had associated with the GamerGate controversy Since then the story has gone global, being reported by everyone from the New York Times to Entertainment Weekly to The Guardian. Last night, one of the panellists for what was seen as the pro-Gamergate side,[...]

Level Up: Overcoming Harassment In Games was a planned panel for SXSW 2016, part of the PanelPicker where people can vote on the panels they would like to see at the show It described itself as, A panel from experts on online harassment in gaming and geek culture, how to combat it, how to design against it,[...]

Comic Book artist Brent Peeples (Last Of The Greats, Sinbad) went and visited the Game Of Thrones Exhibition down at SXSW this week and was nice enough to send us his photos. And make sure you check out Brent's art here. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left:[...]

After seeing an extended clip of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, attendees at the Marvel panel at SXSW were handed one of three hundred copies of this SXSW photo variant cover of Winter Soldier: The Bitter March. Though Moisés Chiullan's copy looks a bit dinged Might want to look for a different copy to flip on[...]

Announced at SXSW, Marvel's Tales To Astonish is a new documentary series that interviews creators, and commentary from industry and cultural types, including Stan Lee, Joss Whedon and Clark Gregg. Though I notice they haven't asked me. Which is a shame, because the first is about Civil War, the 2006 crossover series by Mark Millar and Steve[...]

This is a story that Bleeding Cool first reported on in November, the move to integrate Marvel's digital services into one central App… And its news that CNET has just announced, ahead of of today's announcements at SXSW. We knew about the improved speed and functionality of Marvel Unlimited, apparently down to being written in iOS code[...]

Indeed Marvel execs have let it be known that they enjoy our coverage of the Marvel AR App as well – and complain when we miss a few weeks. Well, at SXSW, Marvel announced some new updates to the App, which lets Marvel serve up multimedia content with your comics. It's faster There's more 3D stuff[...]

Marvel are at SXSW. I think @marvel fans are really going to enjoy the announcements for SXSW And if they don't… I will resign as handsomest marvel employee — Eric Lakatos (@ericlakatos) March 8, 2014   Walking over to share how #Marvel is taking fan engagement to the next level at the Marvel: Your Universe panel[...]

On the eve of their prominent appearance at SXSW, popular digital comics distributor and publisher, ComiXology, has sent out a number of e-mails regarding loss of information after a hacking incident. The following letter went out to readers, Dear Comics Reader, In the course of a recent review and upgrade of our security infrastructure, we determined that an[...]

One year ago at SXSW, Marvel gave away 700 free digital comic books through ComiXology. It was an utter disaster after system after system crashed and, well, no one got their free comics for quite some time In fact no one got any digital comics for some time as the situation took down all ComiXology activity. But[...]

And in fact, Hannah Means-Shannon reported on the live event itself when it took place in New York back in November, but then we only had audio, now we have the man himself on camera. He will also be spending a day a SXSW on March 10th talking about Our Doomed Future… so if you are[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running the news that Marvel is planning to consolidate all its digital app into one easy to handle app. Could SXSW in Austin be the place to do it? Expect better planning than the 300 free comics that were suddenly very unavailable…  First, at 1:30pm (CST) on Saturday, March 8th, on the SXSW[...]

Can you download that many in that time? Most-Read Comic Stories Today Marvel Give Away 700 Issue One Digital Comics And Crash ComiXology, Launch Infinite Comics Weekly And Audio Adaptive Comics, Project Gamma, Hire Blair Butler For Earth's Mightiest Show, Online- SXSW UPDATE Marvel are giving away seven hundred issue ones of their comics, digitally, to everyone[...]

Shown at the Marvel panel at SXSW It's as if you were there… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdhS1duP38A[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh18falPNbs[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuGcHbWzFE[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CIMKWefySg[/youtube] Shown at the Marvel panel at SXSW[...]

Marvel's panel has just begun at SXSW Here comes Marvel First, the 52 Count and Project Gamma… The panel's theme music is Queen's One Vision Always remember it ends with Fried Chicken. Marvel are giving away seven hundred issue ones of their comics, digitally, to everyone Your first hit is free right now… but only until Tues[...]

Marvel are PRing something called Project Gamma to be announced at SXSW We have a hart rate increasing Gamma would indicate the Hulk, the heartbeat the transformation… could it be the heartbeat being heard by someone? That red against black… Daredevil? Mark Waid writes Hulk and Daredevil for Marvel Could Project Gamma be a Daredevil/Hulk crossover[...]

Oh so it's this again is it? Yes, yes, 52. Marvel NOW 52. SWSW. It's something about print and digital combined, it's something that goes back to Marvel's