Hello everyone! With the closing of the Highball until sometime in 2013, we’ll have some big changes coming over the next couple months, so here’s the full run down of what’ll be happening through December and into the new year! First & foremost, as you might have seen at our last meetup, even though the [...]

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In our continued effort to do a better job documenting our regular monthly meetups, above you’ll find the team at White Whale Games — from L to R: Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Jason Rosenstock, Jo Lammert & George Royer (seated in front) — introducing themselves and their debut game, GOD OF BLADES. Like our similar self-intro video [...]

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Two updates to our announcement of this coming Sunday’s GOD OF BLADES edition meetup: the first, above, is the amazing alternate poster created by our own Dale Austin. We’re incredibly happy with how both turned out, as usual. More directly, though, yesterday I mentioned that our playable tournament would revolve around GOD OF BLADES co-op [...]

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As excited as we are for this weekend’s meeting of the JUEGOS RANCHEROS featuring all of the games of NYU Game Center’s NO QUARTER exhibition? Help us spread the word! Our dedicated flyer-maker extraordinaire Dale Austin has prepared two PDFs of the poster above and its alternate (seen on the last post) for you to [...]

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Attention indies both local and global: this is your two week warning that the deadline for submissions for the 2012 Fantastic Arcade is May 31st, so submit your games now for the third annual festival, taking place here in Austin, TX from September 20th-27th. Who should submit? With actual converted cabinets and a field of [...]

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Hey Austin game-lovers: missed the SXSW screenings of INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE? We’ve got good news: Blinkworks is bringing back the film for one night only, Wednesday, May 23rd at 6:45pm, to the South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse! Put together with the help of Kickstarter supporters, INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE spent two years documenting the development [...]

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It’s true we haven’t been the best at documenting our regular monthly meetups over the past year, but we’re working on it! In addition to new photo galleries over on the Facebooks (soon, hopefully, also to be ported over here), we have the above: 10 minutes of Rachel ‘Party Time! Hexcellent!‘ Weil’s self-intro from our [...]

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Chalk up another victory for Austin indies: ahead of her appearance at this coming Sunday’s meetup of the JUEGOS RANCHEROS, Rachel ‘Party Time! Hexcellent’ Weil has landed her own cover feature in the latest issue of the Austin Chronicle, out on news-stands all over the damn town as of this morning. The feature covers her [...]

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Attention indies both local and global: submissions have been opened for the 2012 Fantastic Arcade — taking place here in Austin, TX from September 20th-27th — with an May 31st deadline already rapidly approaching. This’ll be the third Fantastic Arcade, which has drawn indies from all across the globe to Austin — names like Vlambeer, [...]

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Hey all — it turns out the first Sunday of February happens to be Super Bowl Sunday, so our next JUEGOS will be taking place the following SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, at the usual 4:00PM time, at the usual Highball place! We’ve got a pretty wicked one planned for February, so clear off your calendar now!

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