ScreenBurn News

For those looking for a little help with their Game Design Competition entry, we hear you loud and clear. Today we have some links to get the juices flowing in time to meet the December 5th deadline.

Veteran BusinessWeek reporter Stephen Baker came to BookPeople in Austin on November 19 to discuss his new release "The Numerati." He graciously granted SXSW a few minutes of interview time after this fantastic book reading.

SXSW: The idea of tapping into all this meta-data to better analyze our  patterns of behavior would have been completely inconceivable 20 years ago. Do you think future generations will be completely comfortable with this concept?

With the December 5th deadline fast approaching for your Game Design Competition proposals, I thought it might be nice to help with a little inspiration.

You have until December 5th to submit your best game design ideas to the ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Competition. ScreenBurn, the portion of the SXSW Interactive Festival that focuses on the newest developments in the video game industry, has launched the brand shiny new ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Competition for 2009.

In honor of Election Day (and the long lines at the voting booth), here’s the latest news on the mobile gaming front. Keep in mind that the ScreenBurn Game Design Competition includes a casual category perfect for mobile gaming!

That’s right, folks, about six weeks til the final deadline for the ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Competition. We started taking your 200 word game concepts back on August 1st, but the final deadline is creeping up quickly. Keep the ideas flowing and we’ll help you show the judges what kind of up-and-coming talent is out there.

So Blizzard has been teasing us with the upcoming Diablo III. They’ve even put out an exciting little video trailer. Still, it remains in-development and that means we’ll need something else to engage our fantasies this Halloween.

Now that the weekend at Maker Faire has come and gone, we wanted to announce the winner of the tortilla toss with a walk down memory lane. This past weekend, we experienced rocking windmills that definitely need to be featured in both the next Guitar Hero and Rock Band venues.

This Saturday and Sunday, SXSW Interactive and The Austin Chronicle will be working with Austin Laser Art to provide some unique games and prizes at Maker Faire Austin. Come join us as for an old-fashioned tortilla toss with laser-engraved tortillas!

When you plan on becoming a gaming icon, what you're really thinking about is the life of Austin's own prodigal dreamer, Richard Garriott. Adding another layer to the mythos, the former SXSW keynote speaker successful arrived in space Sunday morning aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft.