It’s been a few months since we last heard from Coin App and their Mario Galaxy-cum-arena-shooter Max Blastronaut (you might remember it as the one that promised to give players the ability to ‘ghostride’ its lunar rovers), but the studio’s just written in with this latest trailer.

As you can see, the co-op count’s gone up from two to four, and the combat’s gone far more Smash Bros type chaotic, particular with that gravity gun: check Coin App’s site for more screenshots of the game’s mechs and moon buggies, and see if you can’t sniff out their target platform, which they still haven’t announced, but is strongly hinted at.

Max Blastronaut [Coin App]

New Zealand studio Sidhe has just announced their next PlayStation Network game, Shatter, which, if it were just a Breakout clone or just another dual-analog arena shooter might be completely unremarkable. The fact that it’s shaping up to be the best of both has put it square on my watch list.

The other reason to take note? Sidhe’s the studio behind GripShift, the Xbox Live Arcade nee PlayStation Network nee PSP racing puzzler that’s one of the smartest games on wheels created in the past several years.

Shatter [Sidhe, GripShift]

MONSTROUS COOKIE: MORE CULINARY NOBY NOBY BOY DIY

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5.14.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Another culinary update from Keita Takahashi and his Noby Noby Boy over at the game’s official site, this time a super-stretched Noby GIRL cookie, which, frustratingly, doesn’t come with an actual recipe to make our own. But maybe we can remedy that…

As a side note, we’re still approximately 6-10 years from reaching Mars without Takahashi’s planned iPhone intervention. [via GoodGameGet]

WATCH THIS SPACE: THE QUIET BEFORE HIDEO KOJIMA’S NEXT STORM

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5.14.2009

Brandon Boyer

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If you haven’t been following the low rumble rumors this week, Metal Gear producer Hideo Kojima is due to make an announcement on his next project Friday the 18th, at the section of the Kojima Productions website titled, appropriately, /kojima_pro/next/. For now? It’s just an approaching storm.

T-SHIRT: GAME PAUSED’S SACKBOY COSPLAY

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5.14.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Just added by UK game culture shop Game Paused, the studio behind the Exploded Game Boy shirt: the Sackboy Cosplay shirt, allowing you to stumble through your own private LittleBigPlanet (in both chocolate and blue, £16 + £3.50 P&P Worldwide).

MARIO PAPER: THE FULLY-DETAILED PAPER MARIO 64 HEAD

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5.14.2009

Brandon Boyer

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And your last paper project for the day, NintendoPapercraft’s custom-commissioned Mario 64 Mario head, which, sadly, does not respond well to stretching. (Has anyone actually ever assembled any of the papercraft I’ve linked here? I’ll cop to still never dragging my printer out of the garage, even for as brilliant as the Toshio Iwai was.)

Super Mario 64 Head [nintendopapercraft]

HEROES AND VILLAINS: PAPERFOLDABLES’ OFFICIAL FABLE FOLDABLES

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5.13.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Apparently actually published around the game’s launch, but spotted by Tiff yesterday and new to me as well: this set of Fable II paper-creatures from print-out master Bryan ‘paperfoldables‘ Green, most notably the trunk-topped Swampy the Troll (direct pdf link).

If you haven’t been following Green’s work, there’s a number of other treats on his own site (and blog), including a five part (so far!) tribute series of pixelated papers based on ultra-underdog NES/arcade series Kid Niki (a childhood favorite of mine, as well), some of Tim and Eric’s more sublimely grotesque characters, and, yep, even a Free Williamsburg-commissioned model of Gawker-made minor-celeb the Hipster Grifter.

Fable II Foldables [Lionhead, paperfoldables, PF blog]

ONE SHOT: PAUL ROBERTSON’S POKEMON APOCALYPSE, SLOWBROKINGKINGKING…

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5.13.2009

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The least potentially offensive illustration Paul ‘Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006/Kings of Power 4 Billion %’ Robertson has published since Cakedogg and Presentcat. View his otherwise blindingly excellent ongoing livejournal portfolio at your peril.

ONE SHOT: SURROUND’S SEXY PSYCH-POP SPACE INVADERS

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5.13.2009

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Mike Nowak manages to dig up the first version of this illustration I’ve seen that isn’t a chroma-shifting animation. The most work safe of surround‘s otherwise not-so-much “ATARI is Hot.. series” that also includes Breakout and Pac-Man (which actually requires a DA account, click here to break the rules [it’s not that bad]).