ONE SHOT: SILENT HILL IN REAL, HORRIFYING, LIFE
Cosplay takes a lot of flack in the West, but sometimes, just sometimes, something comes along that forces you to re-evaluate: case in point, Judy Stephens’ Silent Hill set, photographed at the recent AnimeCentral 2009. [via GSW]
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ONE SHOT: METROID BY WAY OF MIYAZAKI
I’ve mentioned Mikaël ‘Orioto’ Aguirre before for his excellent collaborative Gunstar Heroes HD PS3 themes, but since then he hasn’t stopped creating hi-res painterly game-remakes, including this “Nausicaä take on Metroid.” [via Jenn’s always wonderful Infinite Lives]
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YOUR STATESIDE ONE MORE GO: VIRTUAL CONSOLE’S MAJORA’S MASK, DSI’S PICTOBITS
As we’d hoped for since early April, Nintendo has added the Nintendo 64’s time-looping Ocarina sequel The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask to the Wii’s stateside Virtual Console this week, giving everyone inspired by Margaret Robertson’s recent ode to the Zelda game too few have played the chance to give it their own One More Go.
Also of note this week and well worth picking up, the DSiWare release of Art Style: PiCTOBiTS, the stateside release of the Quarth-like picture puzzle/action game we’ve covered a number of times during its Japanese debut as PicoPict, with classic NES remixes by chipper chiptune band YMCK.
Previously:
- One More Go: Majora's Mask, or How to be your own hero of time …
- Have your one more go: Majora's Mask added to European Virtual …
- DSi getting more downloadable Art Style, Tetris Attack – Offworld
- Listen: YMCK's Bowser-busting hardcore Mario remix – Offworld
- Listen, too: Another PicoPict YMCK NES mega-mix – Offworld
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THE NEXT ‘NEXT’: THREE MORE DAYS FOR MORE KOJIMA GAME TEASING
As promised, the clouds have continued to gather on the website for Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima’s next game, currently codenamed “Next”, with a hint of thunder and lightning (雷電 [Raiden]), a flashing and fading ‘5’, and a countdown timer with 3.5 days remaining on the clock.
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READ/WATCH/LISTEN: ROMANIAN MAG OTAKU PLAY INCLUDES INDIE/CHIPTUNE DVD, EBOY POSTER
Spotted by the TIGSource crowd earlier in the weekend and quickly ordered before its minuscule run of 350 copies ran dry is Okatu Play, the latest issue of a chapbook style magazine put out, as it happens, by the same Romanian organization that put together the Otaku festival Mike noted a week or two back.
The table of contents is a laundry list of unfamiliar or only hazily recognized names, but it’s the included DVD that is more overtly the draw: in addition to a lineup of 2007 BlipFest videos (all taken, it would seem, from the earlier mentioned Vimeo uploads that included 6955 and Virt), the disc also features music by Nullsleep, Kaseo and she, trailers and info on a number of Offworld-regular indie games, and, to top it off, comes with a foldout poster by iso-pixel artists eBoy.
The magazine ran me just over $20, and still looks to be available as of now: see also some previews of their earlier issues via issuu.
OTAKU PLAY [via TIGSource]
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ONE SHOT: ORRANGE™’S HALF LIFE NOVA PROSPEKT, LEGO EDITION
Inside ORRANGE™’s Combine facility, part of an ongoing Lego Half Life series, via benisadork.
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RED VS. BLUE: VALVE’S LATEST TEAM FORTRESS MASTER-SHORT, MEET THE SPY
Leaked this weekend: the brilliant culmination to a series of Team Fortress 2 character updates that saw the focus on the Sniper abruptly backstabbed and turned to a focus on the Spy.
These guys need a feature-length, immediately.
Team Fortress [Valve]
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ONE SHOT: THE HEIGHT OF BEDAZZLED DARWINIAN FASHION
Indie game dev rock star finery, spotted by negativegamer at Manchester’s Videogame Nation museum exhibit [via GoNintendo].
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ZOMBIE SNAKE: MEDICOM’S LATEST METAL GEAR SOLID 3 VINYL
There’s definitely a perpetual hint of Metal Gear in the air lately: after all the official and custom vinyl creations, pre-orders are opening around the net for Medicom’s latest official Snake toy, this super-stylized Zombie-painted Naked Snake figure from Metal Gear Solid 3, due for release this fall. Find it variously here.
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IOM: IAN BOGOST’S GURU MEDITATION COMES TO IPHONE
In what he describes as the first ever simultaneous game release on both the Atari 2600 and iPhone, developer, author and researcher Ian Bogost (the producer behind the previously mentioned airport security game Jetset) has released Guru Meditation to the App Store, a portable version of his “zen meditation game.”
The background: the game was originally developed for an obscure ‘Joyboard’ peripheral for the Atari 2600 — the retro-tech equivalent of the Wii’s Balance Board — which, instead of using the controller for an action game, required the player to sit as still as possible on the board. Remain motionless and your guru score rises, move a muscle and you crash back to the ground and start again.
The iPhone version of the game does precisely the same, only requires the player to hold the device in both hands, and uses the mic as well: in this version, you have to remain silent as well as motionless.
It’s a cute and clever idea for sure, but it is curiously effective to concentrate as hard as you can to remain still, and, Bogost notes, takes the one device that excels at distraction — with email, texts, twitter, and calls — and turns it into the precise opposite.
Learn more about the idea behind the game — and its limited edition Atari 2600 equivalent, and find the game on the App Store here.
Guru Meditation — a medititation game for Atari VCS and iPhone [Ian Bogost, iTunes link]
Previously:
- From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of "exergaming" – Boing …
- Touch me I'm slick: Persuasive Games' experimental Jetset – Offworld
- Beam racer: MIT previews Bogost/Montfort Atari 2600 book – Offworld
- Layoff: financial crisis through a match-three casual game lens …
- Bleed for me: undoing Atari 2600 emulation perfection – Offworld
- On wires and pumps: Persuasive Games talks Jetset, App Store …
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