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SXSW: The Inside Scoop - how to get a job in the game industry
Filed under: Culture, BusinessFor the most part, the "Inside Scoop" about getting a job in the gaming industry sounded like getting a job in pretty much any industry, except maybe trading...
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SXSW: Games + Entertainment Brands: Five Top Trends In 2007
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, BusinessThis panel brought together Robert Nashak, GM of Yahoo Games, Chris Charla, director of business...
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SXSW: Game Perverts
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Hacks, Retro, CasualAt first glance that panel title sounds like a very special episode of Dateline NBC's "To Catch a Predator," but the subtitle makes it a bit...
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SXSW: Joystiq live at the Will Wright keynote [Update 1]
Filed under: Culture, PC, Online, Simulations We're live in Austin, front and center for the Will Wright keynote speech, where the attendees seem a lot more excited for this one than they did for the...
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SXSW: Serious Games: Can Learning Be Hard Fun?
Filed under: Culture, PC, Puzzle, Simulations, CasualWhen you combine the words "serious" "learning" and "hard" in the same sentence, chances are you're going to end up with something that gamers won't...
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SXSW: Digital Distribution: The Way of the Future for Gaming
Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, Online, Business, CasualAlmost everyone who has gone online with the computer or a game console has...
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SXSW: Virtual Worlds and Virtual Humans: NPCs and Avatars
Filed under: Action, Adventure, Online, Competitive Gaming, MMOThis panel discussed the rise of virtual worlds, the NPCs that frequently populate them and how games like World of Warcraft are much more...
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SXSW: Getting Girls Into The Game: Designing and Marketing Games for Female...
Filed under: Culture, Competitive Gaming, Business, CasualBoyfriends aren't the only ones facing dilemmas. Publishers and developers have been struggling to develop games that appeal to women, because...
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SXSW08: SXSWag
Filed under: Culture, Galleries My first task upon entering the Austin Convention Center was ... well, it was to challenge the Labyrinth of Press Registration (instead of a minotaur at the end, there...
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SXSW08: Edit Me! How Gamers Are Adopting the Wiki Way
Filed under: Culture, MMO With such a strange and specialized topic, I couldn't help but stop into this SXSW panel with speakers Jake McKee (Ant's Eye View), April Burba (NCSoft), Angelique Shelton...
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'Overheard' @ SXSW: What does green mean to you?
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360 I didn't actually need to hear anything to get the story here. The interview crew were wearing shirts featuring the title question (which I...
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SXSW08: Booth Hero
Filed under: Culture, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm, Galleries What's better for attracting people to your booth than a fake guitar? Apparently nothing! Walking around SXSW's ScreenBurn Arcade, I...
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SXSW08: GameTap party lets the free games flow
Filed under: Culture, PC, Galleries Augmenting their usual Internet-based strategy of giving people free games to lure them into a subscription service, GameTap treated SXSW attendees to a party at...
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SXSW08: The Female Takedown of Casual Gaming
Filed under: PC, Casual A panel of game publishers, analysts, and investors met at this SXSW presentation to discuss the numbers and trends involving the female audience for casual games. For this...
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SXSW08: Inside Austin's Developerscape
Filed under: Culture, MMO In this panel, a group of Austin-based game developers set out to discuss the unique Austin game development community, moderated by journalist (and Joystiq contributor) N....
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SXSW08: Virtual worlds and indie games to dethrone publishers
Filed under: MMO, Business Multiverse cofounder Corey Bridges' talk at SXSW Interactive may have had the title "Virtual World and Game Development: Rise of the Indies," but it soon became clear that...
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SXSW08: ScreenBurn Arcade in pictures
Filed under: Culture, Galleries Despite being the centerpiece of SXSW Interactive's game-focused ScreenBurn Festival, the ScreenBurn Arcade has yet to achieve the expansive grandeur of other...
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Joystiq invades SXSW 2009!
If you're in the vicinity of Austin, Texas, then you're probably in town for SXSW - the interactive, music, and film festival. We are too! Both myself and JC Fletcher will be here bringing updates from...
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SXSW 2009: A lifetime of gaming in a single booth
It is not my intention to shill for a beverage, but Mountain Dew's installation in SXSW's ScreenBurn Arcade was too cool for me not to share. As I walked by, I noticed a cozy little setup with a couch,...
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SXSW 2009: Games By the People, For the People
So you enjoy playing video games, right? That's what probably brought you to Joystiq in the first place. But have you ever thought about making your own? Right now you're probably thinking, "But,...
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