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Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.

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Game developers parties: we’ve got photos

By Omar Gallaga | Friday, September 7, 2007, 03:00 PM

I usually leave the party-hopping to Michael Barnes, but last night I dragged my weary daddy bones to three different parties to see how Austin game developers party: It turns out they get naughtier as the night wears on.

At the laid-back party for Austin’s new Pixel Mine, four desktop computers were set up for an early version of the game “Fireteam Reloaded.” The simple football-meets-firearms game feels a little slow and the controls confounded a lot of the people who tried the game, but with some tweaks the game could be a really fun online experience.

The open bar and tavern equivalent of booth babes at the door meant a healthy crowd for the company’s first public event, and the proximity of 90 Proof to the Convention Center didn’t hurt, either.

A few hours later, at Speakeasy, Sony Online Entertainment presented a check for $10,000 to the very cool folks at Habitat for Humanity. I talked to Beth Krueger from Habitat and she couldn’t have been any nicer. Sony employees and their peeps drank beers as some kept an eye on the New Orleans vs. Indianapolis NFL game.

Soon after, I headed over to Fado Irish Pub for the Gamecock Media Group late-night party. I knew something was up when I saw drunk guys walking around in capes and rooster heads. Sure enough, the staid party got wild when the ladies of Kitty Kitty Bang Bang hit the stage, pasties aplenty.

Two roosters performed a song soon after, followed by a scorching tin tub dance by one of the Kitties that was enough to remind me that I have a three-week-old baby at home and that I should call it a night and clock out.

We’ll be posting a video of the parties later today, but in the meantime, you can check out this photo gallery from Tuesday’s Videogame Archive party and the photos below of two of the parties. (Sorry, no Kitty Kitty Bang Bang photos; I’m not even sure we can run the video footage I shot. Caliente!)