In accordance with Governor Perry's announcement at the EA Sports dog and pony show a few weeks ago (that Texas become the Nation's Leader in Video games by some time in the future), The Texas FIlm Commission has raised incentives for developers in time for a new fiscal year. Of course, there's more than the call to arms of our fearless leader at work here. Earlier this year, the Texas Comptroller reported that in the past two years, the games industry created more full-time jobs than other industry involved in the incentive program. So, you could say that the gaming companies have earned their place and the 10% increase in reimbursement grants (from just 5% prior) and film can't really step to that. more ›

Daryl Holt, EA Sports COO, was seen in Austin a couple weeks ago, on the lookout for space to implement a new studio. Well, everything must have gone to plan(and he didn't need to look very hard) as today EA executives, with Governor Perry in tow, announced a potential 300 jobs in Austin. Not all of which will be going EA Sports(some jobs will go to EA games, some to IT and finance) but all of which will be added to the two buildings that make up EA Sports' new studio home, at Bioware(also owned by EA). more ›

• Dallas trash-talks the city of Miami. This has something to do with grown men playing round ball.
• Will Sheff (of Okkervil River) and Singer-songwriter Steve Earle chew the fat—and talk about the reasons they live outside of Texas.
• Human breast milk: the saga of the buyers, the sellers and the milk banks.

In what seems a very pivotal time for Sony, their Vice President of Development, Jon Blakely, has left to become the General Manager at the small but incredibly lucrative and popular flash game company, Zynga(basically like the new mayor of gagaville). more ›

It's not as if he needed a little extra pocket change, but gaming legend Richard Garriott won a $28 million award from the jury in his suit against former employer, NCSoft. more ›

Spawn Labs debuts the "Slingbox for video games", City Hall throws a party for game developers, CA buys NetQoS for $200 million, and UT alumnus Bob Taylor sits down to talk about inventing the Internet. more ›

David Kalina worked on big-budget console games for Midway Studios, but after the company cancelled his project and laid off 90 people from its Austin shop, he teamed up with former Electronic Arts developer Randy Smith to found Tiger Style and begin building games for the iPhone. more ›

RESET/PLAY, Arthouse's interactive multimedia exhibit curated by Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum, borrows much of its aesthetics directly from old video games, but no one looking for nostalgia will find sentimentality here. The exhibition seems sparse at first, with an almost jarring amount of wall space between each screen, but the unique melding of science and politics with art and technology will keep the theorists among us talking for days. more ›