SOCK PUPPETS: NEW VIDEO OF NABI’S WIIWARE TORIBASH PORT

With an original early 2006 release and subsequent IGF 2007 nomination for innovation in design (an award that would go to Jon Mak’s Everyday Shooter), Nabi Software’s turn-based ragdoll block/ball fighter Toribash should be a familiar name to anyone keeping half an eye on the indie scene.

I’ll admit, I’ve let my attention lapse over the following years, but as it turns out, progress has been steady at turning the game even further into the cutely stark rock-em, sock-em display of brutality it’s had as its singular focus since the start.

And now, Nabi developer Gerald Tock writes in with this latest video above, showing off the latest improvements being made to the forthcoming WiiWare version of the game (newly announced in January), including full fight scene editing and smoother flow all around.

You can still download the game for free at its official home, and, even more intriguingly, investigate the third party mod/hack scene, which has been churning out tweaks like this fantastic Toribash skate mod below.

Toribash home [Nabi Software]