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  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Five Ways We Might Be Listening To Music In the Future

    The human race will remember 2012 as the year that birthed a new kind of hologram, but that technology is just the jumping-off point in this exciting era of interactive music experience. New research allows us to look into technology that might shape the way we listen to music in the next few decade ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    The Problem With... Katy Perry's "Firework"

    It seems, much as we try, no one can avoid Katy Perry. Hell, she's pretty much everywhere these days, between awards shows, popping up (or not at all, turn out) on Sesame Street. She even lashed out at Microsoft over their closed-source softw... no, actually, her fans just wanted free booze in tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Bonfire Goes Zynga, or: You Can't Keep a Local Gaming Company Down on the Farmville

    ​Hard to believe it's been almost two years since we posted that item about the two local companies to rise from the ashes of Ensemble Studios -- Robot Entertainment and Bonfire Studios, each consisting of ex-Microsofties scattered to the virtual winds after Ensemble's September '08 demise. Robot' ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    With NASA's Future Uncertain, Dallas Rocketeers at Armadillo Aerospace Compete In The Race To Privatize The Final Frontier

    ​Hard to believe it's been almost two years since we posted that item about the two local companies to rise from the ashes of Ensemble Studios -- Robot Entertainment and Bonfire Studios, each consisting of ex-Microsofties scattered to the virtual winds after Ensemble's September '08 demise. Robot' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Halo Wars: A Top Video Game Designer Moves From One Local Company to Another

    Dave Pottinger, back when he was still at Robot earlier this year​It's been more than a year since Microsoft shuttered Dallas-based Ensemble Studios, which was responsible for, among others, such top-selling titles as Age of Empires, Age of Mythology and Halo Wars for Xbox 360. From that wreckage ... More >>

  • Music

    December 10, 2009

    The Gourds Keep On Keeping On

    Dave Pottinger, back when he was still at Robot earlier this year​It's been more than a year since Microsoft shuttered Dallas-based Ensemble Studios, which was responsible for, among others, such top-selling titles as Age of Empires, Age of Mythology and Halo Wars for Xbox 360. From that wreckage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Rocket Men From Mesquite's Armadillo Aerospace Are in Line For $1 Million X Prize

    Photos by Patrick MichelsArmadillo Aerospace's Neil Milburn guides Scorpius off a trailer bed after its successful launches Saturday afternoon.​ Check out more photos from the launch day in our slide show.He'd just guided his 1,900-pound rocket to a successful simulated moon landing, but while his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Today In Music News: The Zune Lives, Jay-Z Gets Closer To Sony, and Chris Brown Wants Us To Know...

    Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009... What do you do when your competition has about 90 percent of the market? You make your product link to the Xbox. Yep, Microsoft isn't ready to give up on the ol' Zune yet; it will launch the Zune HD in the fall. Looks like ... More >>

  • Music

    February 26, 2009

    Stephen Rippy Sets Halo Wars High Score

    Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009... What do you do when your competition has about 90 percent of the market? You make your product link to the Xbox. Yep, Microsoft isn't ready to give up on the ol' Zune yet; it will launch the Zune HD in the fall. Looks like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    From Ensemble's Ashes, a New Bonfire

    Aw, dang. Had hoped to break this in the paper version of Unfair Park next week, where we profile former Ensemble Studios music-maker Stephen Rippy; but, oh, well, no such luck. Regardless, the September shuttering of Ensemble Studios -- the former Dallas-based indie-studio-turned-Microsoft property ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Amid More Oops, Lucille Hester's Story is On the Ropes

    DNA test? Maybe. Smell test? No way.Look, I love Lucille Hester "as my big sister", but this thing's gone too far for too long. With new discrepancies in her story cropping up on the hour every hour, if I'm in her corner I throw in the white towel. Watching a sweet, old forgetful/ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    As You Lock and Load Your Halo Wars Demo, Keep An Ear Out For Plano's Stephen Rippy

    Xbox-ers are no doubt anxiously awaiting tomorrow, when Microsoft finally unleashes its Halo Wars demo in advance of the game's March 3 release date. (Am I the only person who misses Tempest? Ooooh -- thanks, Atari!) I digress. So happens there's an extremely local connection to the Halo spin-off: T ... More >>

  • Music

    January 15, 2009

    Could Cell Phones Topple iPods?

    Could your cellphone's ability to stream music render the iPod obsolete? Quite possibly.

  • Calendar

    December 25, 2008

    Ring In The Laughs

    Spend New Year's Eve with some local comedians

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    From Dallas, a Potentially Killer App For the iPhone -- If You Play Chess

    Wired brings what could be big news out of a small start-up in Dallas that has the potential to become a strong player amongst those creating applications for iPhones. Newtoy mays be a new company, but its founders are familiar faces in the gaming industry: As Paul and David Bettner write on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2008

    Study Figures Dallas-Fort Worth Has Fifth-Worst Traffic in U.S.

    Wired brings what could be big news out of a small start-up in Dallas that has the potential to become a strong player amongst those creating applications for iPhones. Newtoy mays be a new company, but its founders are familiar faces in the gaming industry: As Paul and David Bettner write on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2008

    Dallas, Now Virtually Improved

    Wired brings what could be big news out of a small start-up in Dallas that has the potential to become a strong player amongst those creating applications for iPhones. Newtoy mays be a new company, but its founders are familiar faces in the gaming industry: As Paul and David Bettner write on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Guitar Hero Will Save the Economy

    Wired brings what could be big news out of a small start-up in Dallas that has the potential to become a strong player amongst those creating applications for iPhones. Newtoy mays be a new company, but its founders are familiar faces in the gaming industry: As Paul and David Bettner write on the ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    February 28, 2008

    Text Adventure

    Words get in the way of an otherwise stellar Lost Odyssey

  • Music

    February 7, 2008

    Kelly Law-Yone is Queen of Fake Rock

    Words get in the way of an otherwise stellar Lost Odyssey

  • News

    January 10, 2008

    Ask a Mexican

    Welcome to the United States, Mexicans. Now, how'd you like some new underwear?

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    French Lessons (From Mrs. Bill Gates)

    Welcome to the United States, Mexicans. Now, how'd you like some new underwear?

  • Home Entertainment

    December 6, 2007

    Future Shock

    Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

  • Home Entertainment

    October 11, 2007

    Hype Machine

    Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    Halo 3: Dallas Finishes the Fight

    Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

  • News

    August 30, 2007

    Land of Opportunity...

    ...For many skilled immigrants, it's not here, it's home

  • Film

    June 7, 2007

    Geekology 101

    Judd Apatow explains himself

  • Home Entertainment

    June 7, 2007

    Three's a Charm

    A promising glimpse of the next Halo

  • Music

    May 3, 2007

    Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath), Megadeth, Machine Head

    Thursday, May 3, at Nokia Theatre

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2006

    Texas Film Industry Spends Money to Make Money

    Thursday, May 3, at Nokia Theatre

  • Home Entertainment

    May 25, 2006

    Next Big Things

    The five biggest attention-getters at E3.

  • Home Entertainment

    March 2, 2006

    Back to the Future

    The Xbox Live Arcade is a high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op.

  • Music

    December 15, 2005

    Ryan Adams

    29 (Lost Highway)

  • Dining

    December 8, 2005

    Keeps Going

    Familiar, comfortable food soldiers on at The Bronx

  • Home Entertainment

    December 8, 2005

    Near Perfect

    Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target.

  • News

    March 3, 2005

    Lemonade

    Mark Cuban, you so smart!

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2004

    Out of Africa

    Kwanzaa is community, not characters and catchphrases

  • Film

    December 25, 2003

    House of Pain

    It's Kingsley vs. Connelly in a heart-wrenching real estate battle

  • Dining

    May 8, 2003

    Barrel of Style

    Hope springs for Mercy

  • Culture

    August 8, 2002

    Do the Math

    The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

  • Film

    November 29, 2001

    Flaming Wreck

    Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines and lands in familiar terrain

  • Film

    January 11, 2001

    Microsofties

    If Antitrust were written in computer code, it'd come up all zeroes

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    E-publish or perish

    Move over Mr. Gutenberg -- Dallas Internet entrepeneur Patrick Seaman is hunting for the "killer app" to create the next revolution in publishing

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    Invasion of the bodyshoppers

    A shortage of American engineers and programmers spells boom times for brokers who peddle skilled foreign workers at bargain prices. Is it exploitation, or just good business?

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Life in the slow lane

    The Information Age meets the technological Stone Age at Dallas schools

  • News

    June 27, 1996

    GROUND ZERO

    Atomic Cafe filmmaker Jayne Loader has won raves for her CD-ROM Public Shelter, but calls the 'new medium' a dud

  • News

    April 25, 1996

    Buzz

    Atomic Cafe filmmaker Jayne Loader has won raves for her CD-ROM Public Shelter, but calls the 'new medium' a dud

  • News

    April 4, 1996

    Wish Woman

    She hasn't got money or connections. But straight-shooting Linda Terrell is helping dying grownups live their dreams.

  • Music

    March 21, 1996

    The unusual suspects

    At South by Southwest, the magic moments count the most

  • News

    January 18, 1996

    Gold diggers

    The telecommunications bill brings out the greed in all of us

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