Monthly Archives: March 2009

T-Shirt: Exploded Atari 2600

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Joel Johnson

You can buy this t-shirt for $23, shipped, the same price as it costs to get a real 2600. (More or less.) Previously: What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2600) – Offworld Beam racer: MIT previews Bogost/Montfort Atari 2600 … Continue reading →

GDC: Host Master, Tim Schafer’s finest point & click in a decade

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Clearing out more of the didn’t-get-posted-in-the-GDC-frenzy archives: Double Fine has finally made good for the legions begging ex-LucasArts designer/DF founder Tim Schafer to make a new point-and-click adventure with Host Master & The Conquest of Humor. In fantastic double-plus-meta fashion, … Continue reading →

Last.ds: downloadable app turns DS into streaming Band Bros. radio receiver

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Speaking of franchise potential Nintendo’s sternly neglected to bring stateside: most interesting of all the apps the company’s detailed in Japan’s latest downloadable DSiWare update is Band Bros. DX Radio, a receiver that will tune into a regularly-scheduled streaming audio … Continue reading →

Full disclosure: Introversion publish confidential Darwinia+ docs, emails

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

After first being announced for Xbox Live Arcade almost exactly a year ago and already several months behind schedule, it’s hard to tell if this is a move of frustration at the normally opaque process of console certification, or a … Continue reading →

The stars were bright, Rolando: two iPhone sequels coming June, November

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

If any game were to become the iPhone’s real first platform franchise it couldn’t have happened to a better series than Hand Circus and ngmoco’s platformer Rolando. Though we already knew a sequel was in the works, the developer has … Continue reading →

Preorders open for Mezco’s LittleBigPlanet figure set

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Spotted via vinyl toy/comic/culture blog Super Punch, Big Bad Toy Store has begun taking pre-orders for the first set of Mezco’s LittleBigPlanet toy. $35 will net you a set of three, including: SackBoy – With baseball cap, two sets of … Continue reading →

Oh my pork, indeed: Fangamer releases fan-created Mother 3 guidebook

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Yesterday’s best surprise was waking up to an early delivery of Fangamer’s fresh-off-the-press all-fan-created guidebook to the unofficially localized version of Game Boy Advance RPG Mother 3. A quick video preview: As you can see, it’s a show of community … Continue reading →

Listen: 6955 remixes Fez title track

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

Wicked old but a relevant and essential watch and listen following Fez‘s freshly-updated reappearance at this year’s GDC, Polytron co-founder Jason ‘6955‘ Degroot remixes his Fez title track live at Tokyo’s 8-bit music night Fami-Mode. Fez home [Polytron] Previously: Indie … Continue reading →

Video: The kills of an especially effective Left 4 Dead hunter

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Joel Johnson

If you can ignore the cheeseball techno, this video from the “Dx” Left 4 Dead clan shows how terrifyingly effective the Hunter zombie can be in Vs. multiplayer. I’ve hardly ever played the zombies in multi (and am in fact … Continue reading →

Keita Takahashi bringing Noby Noby Boy to the iPhone

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Brandon Boyer

The biggest surprise from Keita Takahashi’s GDC session on Noby Noby Boy? That the team involved has just started work last week on an iPhone version that he said could possibly be given away for free. Here’s the problem: even … Continue reading →