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"In its 22 years, SXSW has grown from a tiny music festival in the Texas capital into a massive, unavoidable media beast that reflects, discusses and showcases trends in culture and media but also often creates them." National Post, 3/13/08
A number of health journals have started reporting on a study out of Oxford where subjects suffered less flashbacks the week after watching a terrifying movie if they played Tetris immediately after the viewing. That's right, Tetris is a potential cure for post-traumatic stress disorder.
For those who entered the casual gaming aspect of the
ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Challenge, this article should help you hold your head up high against all those story-hyped console games. I wonder what Dr. Julie Ratner's panel on
Funologists would to say about that?