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Texas Test-Market Opens For Rapture-Ready PC Games
1:20PM Owen Good | Christian-themed PC games like Left Behind and the Charlie Church Mouse series are now available in – where else – Walmarts in – where else – Texas thanks to an agreement between the retailer and publisher Inspired Media Entertainment. More »
Culture
It Was Called Pac-Man Land
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Growing up in 1980s Texas, I have vague memories of this: Pac-Man Land. More »
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Texas May Force Sex Offenders To Register Gamertags
8:20AM Michael McWhertor | Legislators in Texas have proposed a bill that would expand what registered sex offenders would be required to disclose, including the release of online screen names. That could potentially cover online gaming social networks. More »
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ESA President Calls For Stronger Texas Game Industry Incentives
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Entertainment Software Association president Michael Gallagher has issued a plea to the Texas state government to strengthen tax incentives for software companies residing in the Lone Star state. More »
Culture
State of Texas Creates Video Game Day
3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | What were you doing on February 3rd? Let us tell you what you should have been doing, you should have been celebrating Entertainment Software Day. Oh yes. More »
Catch Real Mexicans In This Real Border Crossing ‘Game’
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | There’s a new “project” running in Texas that sounds a lot more like a “game” to us. It involves cameras, the internet, people sitting at home and catching Mexicans. Fun fun fun! More »
Don’t Mess With Texas
8:00AM Owen Good | Well, that National Post thing went out the door a little early, so in return I give you a look at another story dated (echo chamber) FROM THE FUTURE … In tomorrow’s Austin American-Statesman is, or will be, a story by their gaming writer, Lilly Rockwell. She talked to Michael Gallagher, described as “one of the game industry’s top lobbyists” but not the president of the Entertainment Software Association. Curious. Anyhow, we’re familiar with the fact Texas is courting developers with incentives, and Gov. Rick Perry’s appearance at E3 says as much. But tucked in the story is this little nugget: More »
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Suspect Arrested In San Antonio EB Murder
12:20AM Mike Fahey | In January 2007 we reported on the murder of Amber Belken, a 24-year-old EB manager for a San Antonio, Texas area EB Games store. Belken entered her store around 9AM on January 29th, 2007 only be be found dead – suffocated with a plastic bag – around 2PM when EB managers arrived on the scene to see why she hadn’t been answering the phone. Now, over a year and a half later, police finally have a suspect in custody. 23-year-old Geovany Rivera, recently named to the marshal’s 15 most-wanted list, was arrested late last night by the U.S. Marshalls Service at a cousin’s house in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Rivera. a former EB Games employee, had long been a suspect in the case, with one witness having told the police that the suspect approached him on the morning before the crime suggesting they rob the store. Homicide detectives applied for a warrant to do DNA test on Rivera this past January after a short black hair had been found near the body. More »
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Texas Governor Perry Encourages Game Biz
3:30AM Leigh Alexander | Texas Governor Rick Perry believes in the game industry. It’s in our nature, he said, to be driven and competitive, and that’s why he wants more companies within the industry to put down roots in Texas. Speaking to an audience of industry professionals and press at the 2008 E3 Media and Business Summit, Perry, archetype of the jovial Texan, said, “Gamers get so used to respawning themselves that they’re willing to keep going when their health meter is down to real-life zero. There are more than a few people in this room who have ridden an ill-fated game into the ground, bounced back up and went at it again. They’re still chasing dreams, but this time, they’re… wiser and more committed to succeed”. More »
