Been field testing new equipment around Austin lately, so check me out. Latest update: Amy Sage and Mike Boyd of Fiesta Explosion, covering “Game of Love” by Santana. Taken with a Flip Ultra 30-minute model, uploaded with my MSI Wind U123.

Haven’t seen this much news about square footage in a long time. So Vigil Games, owned by THQ, the latter flush with cash for selling one of their studios and firing 200-some people just four months ago, is going to move into a new 33,000-square-foot office space in Austin, in somewhere called Four Points Centre. (Austin Business Journal had the official word on Friday, not that I noticed.)

What the gaming sites have yet to point out is that Four Points Centre is barely what anyone would call “Austin,” at least not counting suburban sprawl. Its own location map advertises the fact that it’s way out in the sticks, and if anyone would care to check the Google Maps version, you might get double-checks their estimates on drive times.

I’d call it “out by Lake Travis”. Or, “about seven miles from Hippie Hollow“.

Edit: In all fairness, I’m not (officially) making a qualitative statement about suburban sprawl, just that while the developers most likely expect that the area will build up and become a growth center in the next few years, it isn’t much of one now, and while a 15-minute drive to anywhere might seem fine to anyone from, say, L.A., Texans would call it ‘livin’ in the country.”

But, in truth, the place where I go to work, out on Loop 360, was just hills and trees less than 30 years ago. ‘Course, back then they thought it’d be made into a freeway. Didn’t quite happen that way, and it’s still pretty nice country out there.

Trion World Network announced their new mumorperger, in connection with E3. PR-speak cut out, they’ve got a nifty server architecture, the game will be class- and subclass-based but will employ a “unique class system that allows the players to play every character class in the game,” there’s no release time set but you should set up an interview time in their suite on the convention center concourse anyway.

Only clear message: They really wanted a game with the abbreviation “HoT”.

Reasons why Austin is awesome and I love living here and please don’t move here unless you are at least benign if not awesome yourself, No. eleventy quantum quintillion:

I just saw a middle school stage production of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and the whole cast was girls.

It was awesome in a bottle.

Continue reading Friday Night with Dr. Horrible…

At least I’m not Marc Jacobs. Yeah, I know the guy’s got a company to run, but that should give him more to talk about, not less. Not that I have a huge interest in what the guy has to say these days beyond what Scott points out or when I have a cheap joke in mind.

Actually, with the way Warhammer’s shaking out these days, I doubt he has much good to write about.

So tomorrow I plan to catch Wolverine at a midnight show, then on Saturday see The Tempest played live (it’s like “LOST” by Shakespeare!) and then catch mc chris make fun of Bill & Ted on Sunday.

I’m living it large, and hopefully this will show up on Facebook.

Talking about Wizard 101 and how it’s all kid-friendly and stuff. EXTREME CLOSEUPS.

You’ve come a long way, baby. I might update later when I actually watch it all the way through.

Pour out your favorite beverage. It’ll all be over soon.

Board chair and all-around swell guy Bob Bates posted to one of the many hot-tempered threads on the IGDA forums that are either about the organization’s stance on employee labor standards or its lack of an executive director. There has also been a memo released on the subject, praising that the “Quality of Life Committee” has been made into a Special Interest Group, and in the thread, Bob outlines exactly what each member of the board is actually working on.

There has been much praise heaped on this very simple yet deft bit of communication, so I’m only too happy to give the same. Now if they can execute on the Web site revamp and boards that don’t suck, I’ll be amazed.

Edit: The board has a blog, too. Progress Happens.

My monthly bill before calling to cancel: $46.20

My May bill: $26.40

Oh look, here’s a mailer from AT&T U-Verse for a package deal with home phone service that I don’t really want. Decisions, decisions.