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Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for the American-Statesman since 1997 and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's currently a contributor to NPR's "All Tech Considered" segment, which airs Mondays on "All Things Considered." He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project, and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity. 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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Austin360 blogs > Digital Savant > Archives > 2011 > November > 28 > Entry

The year in Austin gaming and how studios deal with trolls

By Omar L. Gallaga | Monday, November 28, 2011, 11:44 AM

Artist Kale Menges works on concept art at Spacetime Studios, the company behind “Pocket Legends” and “Star Legends: The Blackstar Chronicles.” Photo by Ricardo B. Brazziell / Austin American-Statesman

In today’s Austin American-Statesman, you’ll find a new Digital Savant column recounting the year of Austin game development. There are a lot of big games on the horizon (none bigger than EA/BioWare’s “Star Wars: The Old Republic”), but there’s also been lots of movement in mobile gaming, social gaming and smaller-scale online role playing.

There’s also a Tech Monday column in today’s paper about how local game studios who produce online games deal with trolls and griefers. You might recall last month we published a story about trolling. This is an offshoot of that story and we were lucky enough to get some insight from Sony Online Entertainment, KingsIsle Entertainment and Spacetime for the piece.

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