The wonderfully irascible J. at Damned Vulpine, who has covered the Austin Game Conference for Gamasutra in the past (but is shouting at PR people for us anyhow this year, to make up for us not having room to use him!) hangs out in the Texas game nexus all year round.

Therefore, to commemorate Austin GDC, which is run by us at the CMP Game Group for the first time, and kicks off this coming Wednesday (here's the conference at a glance PDF), J. has posted an awesome guide to the city of Austin, explaining: "Here are some things to do in Austin besides aimlessly wander the halls of the Austin Convention Center" - from movies, through bridge bats (!), to great restaurant listings - it's actually really helpful and sweet of him.

Sadly, I have to stay home and mind the fort, but we have multiple journalists at the Austin show itself - which has keynotes from Square Enix exec Hiromichi Tanaka, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime, Habbo Hotel designer Sulka Haro, and a whole bunch of other interesting talks - so watch out for special Gamasutra coverage starting on Wednesday.