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October 5, 2007 - New! New art sample page added that shows off some of the artwork we ahve created for Unreal 3 engine projects here. |
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August 29, 2007 - New! The press release about Shoot'em Poker's release has been added here. |
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August 5-9, 2007 - Billy and Matt will be at SIGGRAPH in San Diego. If you would like to schedule a meeting, please call (512) 423-2819. |
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July 25-29, 2007 - Billy will be at Comic Con in San Diego and between it and SIGGRAPH will be in the San Diego area. Email him to set up a meeting. |
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July 17-18, 2007 - Billy is performing the Industry Keynote at the LSC Consortium this year. |
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July 4-9, 2007 - Celebrating the completion of a huge client deliverable and for America's birthday, CMI closes its office from July 4th until July 9th to allow everyone time to spend with their families. |
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July 2, 2007 - Our downstairs neighbors, EV Autos, have just opened their doors. They sell electric cars... pretty cool! |
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June 25, 2007 - CMI completed delivery of virtual clothing assets to one of our most recent clients. Be sure to keep your eyes on World of Kaneva for some of our work! |
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June 23, 2007 - Critical Mass Interactive sponsored the music at the first huge IGDA-Austin gathering of developers! Check out the stories online by clicking here! |
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April 25, 2007 - Matt and Billy will be in Florida at Full Sail's Computer Animation Advisory Board. This is where we work with other influential members of the game / movie / TV industry and help Full Sail improve on their educational process. If you would like to know more about our involvement, please email us! |
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April 20, 2007 - Furniture assets were delivered to the client on one of our newest MMO art projects. Our client's off the record comment - "Tell your team 'Great Job'; the items look 10,000 times better than what's currently in the game." |
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April 13, 2007 - Signed two wearables contracts for an MMO. Very exciting work ahead of us! |
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April 10, 2007 - Signed contract to deliver furniture items for an MMO. The deadline's tight! |
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April 6, 2007 - The new office is 100% up and running! This is a very exciting time at Critical Mass Interactive and we're currently planning an open house. If you're interested in receiving an invitation so you can tour the studio, please click here to email us! |
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March 21, 2007 - Billy spoke at St. Edward's University in Austin to one of the Digital MBA program classes. The students seemed to enjoy getting a chance to talk to someone from the industry and hearing a few stories. People are definitely interested in learning how to make their own games! |
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March 16, 2007 - Billy went to Gamecamp! and judged the kids' projects. Check out the website! This was the first spring break Gamecamp! ever!! The projects were awesome as well. These kids are going to do well if they follow their hearts into the game industry. |
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March 13, 2007 - Our newest staff member, Griffin Gardner, joined ranks with CMI today. She was brought on as an Assistant Producer to help manage some of our largest clients. Welcome Griffin!! |
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March 9, 2007 - Our new office is open and we have moved 99% of our materials into it already! We are still putting away the odds and ends, and we expect to be doing so for some while since work has not stopped on any of our projects. In the meantime, here's our new address: 7427 North Lamar Blvd., Suite 200, Austin, TX 78752. All other numbers and methods of contact remain the same. |
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March 7-9, 2007 - Billy will be out at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco. To make an appointment to meet in person, just email Billy Cain. |
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February 28, 2007 - We have signed a lease at a much larger place! We are moving into new offices soon and will be sending out our new address as soon as our mail is delivered there! Here is a look behind the scenes at the buildout at the new facility!
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February 24, 2007 - The Austin Video Game Community is going to get together for Big Brothers Big Sisters. Click here for more information!
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February 23, 2007 - The scales tipped in favor of Blu-ray Disc the week ended Feb. 18, according to preliminary data.
Image and data from Home Media Magazine
Since the inception of both formats, the Sony-backed Blu-ray disc has now sold more units than its Toshiba-backed HD DVD competitor, according to Nielsen VideoScan First Alert data. |
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February 20, 2007 - Our crossword project just completed. More information on release when we can say more! |
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February 13, 2007 - Billy is in New York at Toy Fair checking out the new stuff for this coming Christmas season, plus meeting up with a few clients and friends in the New York area and at Toy Fair itself! [Addendum: Billy took Jet Blue and got stuck in NYC a little longer than anticipated. :)]
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February 7, 2007 - We just added a new page to the website. Video Game Industry Frequently Asked Questions. We'll try to keep adding new stuff there over time. Click here to check it out! |
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February 7, 2007 - The ACC Video Game Certificate Program got a mention in the Daily Texan. Click here to read! |
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January 30, 2007 - We finally took the time to sit down with all the new console systems (Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 3 - we've played the Xbox 360 for some time now!) and put them through their paces. Each has its strengths and it's going to be very interesting this year to see how each hardware company markets itself to the gamers. We can't wait to see how 2007 turns out! |
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January 29, 2007 - The Austin Community College Video Game Certificate Program got some press in the Austin American-Statesman. Click here! |
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January 26, 2007 - A new project has begun where we are delivering a very detailed human model and a piano to one of our clients. More info when we can. |
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January 26, 2007 - We just completed a huge model conversion project for one of our clients. When we can say more, we will. |
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January 24, 2007 - Started work on animated avatars for an MMOG world project.This project is extremely interesting as the 'players' are actually students in a virtual university! |
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January 22. 2007 - How about that crazy Austin "Ice Storm?!?" We're still at work, plugging away on projects for our clients. |
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January 9. 2007 - Completed 100 crossword puzzles for an overseas client's game. We're very excited to have been a part of this! |
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January 1, 2007 - The Alamo Drafthouse fricking rocks. The ELO / Skate night on New Year's Eve was just INCREDIBLE! If I get pictures, I'll link 'em here.
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