HEY LA: GO SEE STREET FIGHTER TRIBUTE ART EXHIBITION JAB STRONG FIERCE
One more reason to wish you were in LA (or to celebrate for being there): coming just one day after Poketo’s excellent sounding Her Space Holiday/PCP art/music exhibit is Gallery Nucleus’s Jab Strong Fierce.
Put together in collaboration with Capcom and art/game crossover mainstay iam8bit, the free exhibit brings together 40-plus designers and illustrators doing Street Fighter themed interpretations, alongside an official EVO-sponsored Street Fighter 4 tournament.
The full list of artists includes:
Adam Alaniz,
Angry Woebots,
Anthony Wu,
Becky Cloonan,
Ben Zhu,
Bill Pressing,
Bobby Chiu,
Brianne Drouhard,
Carlo Arellano,
Christian Ward,
Clement Hanami,
David Jien,
David Lee Duong,
Derek Yu,
Eric Fortune,
Francis Vallejo,
Israel Sanchez,
j. shea,
Jackson Sze,
Jim Mahfood,
Jeremy Enecio,
Jo Chen,
John Pham,
John Wu,
Jorge R. Gutierrez,
Kei Acedera,
Kevin Dart,
Khang Le,
Khylov,
Kinman Chan,
Leo Eguiarte,
Leong Wankok,
Luke Chueh,
Mari Inukai,
Martin Hsu,
Mike Alvarez,
Mindy Lee,
Nanospore,
Patrick Leger,
Robert Kondo,
Rhode Montijo,
Roland Tamayo,
Rodney Fuentebella,
Scott Gandell,
T & A,
Tang Kheng Heng and
Wayne Johnson
Bonus points to anyone that returns with a nice photo gallery of the art for Offworld to print up in the future.
The show opener will take place April 25th from 7:00PM – 11:00PM at Nucleus’s 210 East Main St location in Alhambra, and will continue through May 11th. See Nucleus’s site for more details and tournament specifics/prizes.
JAB STRONG FIERCE (STREET FIGHTER TRIBUTE SHOW) [Nucleus/iam8bit]
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DIG HARDER: MORE IMAGES OF Q-GAMES’ NEXT PS3 DOWNLOADABLE PIXELJUNK
Slowly, slowly, the lid peels back: as more members join Q-games’ previously mentioned Facebook campaign to get one million people to buy their next PS3 downloadable PixelJunk game on launch day, the studio has kept its promise of teasing more images. At right, the first full frame photo of the game’s subterranean domain, with the first hints of liquid dynamics.
Also added, the first vehicular shot making its way through the fluid. Head over to (and join) the event page, or the PixelJunk 1-4 fan page for more information.
PixelJunk home [Q-games]
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BLEED FOR ME: UNDOING ATARI 2600 EMULATION PERFECTION
Via Ian Bogost (author of the recently mentioned book Racing the Beam, chronicling the life and times of the Atari 2600), a new project to make Atari 2600 emulation more authentic by re-introducing the ‘undesirable’ qualities of CRT televisions that have since been stripped away, qualities like color bleed and flicker that programmers purposefully relied on.
Above, one of the five solutions by Georgia Tech Computer Science students which will eventually be worked into 2600 emulator Stella as a configurable option to bring that razor sharpness back into its proper fuzzy un-focus.
See more about the ongoing project at Bogost’s site.
A TELEVISION SIMULATOR – CRT Emulation for the Atari VCS [Ian Bogost, via grandtextauto, via waxy]
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BITEY BAT BIT: ANNA THE RED’S CASTLE CRASHERS BENTO
Games-related bento boxes could so easily become the new hot ‘game-cake’ meme, if it wasn’t being spearheaded solely by food artist Anna the Red.
Above, probably the most adorable box she’s done yet, part of her latest series based on The Behemoth’s Xbox Live Arcade offering, Castle Crashers.
See her full bento set on flickr here.
Castle Crashers bento 2 – Animal Orbs!
Previously:
- Kill it with crowbars: Anna the Red's head-crab bento – Offworld
- Katasushi Damacy in a Bento Box – Offworld
- HOWTO make adorable, edible Totoro cream puffs – Boing Boing
- How Castle Crashers was almost a Muttpop/Lucha Libre game – Offworld
- There will be jewels: Castle Crasher devs tease new game – Offworld
- More details on Castle Crashers dev's cutely chaotic Game #3 …
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BETTEMIDLER.EXE: TUMBLR-GAMING WITH BEN ROSS’S YETI KNIGHT ADVENTURES
Found via a marginally related attractmo.de post, a new favorite tumblr follow: you’ve likely seen Ben Ross’s set of Flying Pizza Kitty animated .gifs, but have you descended into the interactive madness of his Yeti Knight?
Each lite-adventure-game episode is a trip into surreal worlds of floating Lincoln heads/Brian Wilson drinking chocolate milk/bettemidler.exe, each better than the last, and only a let down in that there hasn’t been a new update for six months.
See more of his various works via benisadork, including the latest episode of his games podcast Pixel Babble.
Yeti Knight Adventures [Ben Ross, via attractmo.de]
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OOH-LA-LA INDEED: MAGGIE WANG’S FRUIT BRUTE, SPACE CHANNEL 5 SACK-DOLLS
Spotted via Tiff’s crafty links, quite possibly the best Sackboy toys this side of LittleBigPlanet‘s official output: you might’ve seen Maggie Wang’s original crocheted creations last month, particularly her Spock, Hellboy and Prince of Persia Sack-people, but more recently she’s uploaded some newly commissioned creations.
My two favorite (as above), an Ulala Sackgirl, inspired by Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s neo-future swinging-60’s rhythm game Space Channel 5, and (far more left field) the Fruit Brute Sackboy, indeed inspired by the long-forgotten General Mills cereal mascot.
Contact Maggie for a custom Sack-person of your very own.
Maggie’s custom Sackboy lineup [Maggie Wang, via spritestitch]
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LISTEN: DUTYCYCLE’S JENS AND THE JAUNTYJACKALOPE SAMPLER EP
Like their last showcase sampler, the folks at DUTYCYCLE have put together a new free EP to get a taste of the bands about to play at Thursday’s electro DJ party in celebration of the release of Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu Linux version 9.04).
The EP features chiptune regulars like STARPAUSE but isn’t exclusively chip music, though my top pick of the EP (next to Harbour’s downtempo and dubby “did you forget”) is Wyatt Gurp’s “The Dark Sword of Chaos”, the theme song for an 8-bit boss battle never made.
The release party itself will take place Thursday April 23, 2009 at 8:00pm at San Francisco’s Caffeine, located at 835 Geary, and will feature “new school electro DJs making music on Linux, Linux robotics demonstrations courtesy of Orb SWARM, free Jackalope CDs, and a fat bearded dork wet Linux t-shirt contest (weather permitting).” (! to the last bit there)
See more info via the event’s Upcoming page, and download the sampler via the DUTYCYCLE blog (direct download the zip here).
Jens and the Jauntyjackalope sampler EP [DUTYCYCLE, Upcoming event page]
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BRICK THIS CITY: DEVASTATING NEW DETAILS ABOUT LEGO ROCK BAND
Apparently imagining instrument brick destruction was thinking entirely too small: Microsoft’s new entry for the just-announced TT/Harmonix crossover Lego Rock Band implies that the game has its sights set on even more wanton rock wreckage, detailing:
LEGO-themed rock challenges: Play killer riffs to destroy a giant robot, summon a storm, and demolish a skyscraper using the power of rock!
Which really, again, ’nuff said.
Lego Rock Band Xbox 360 home [Microsoft, via GoNintendo]
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TOTAL TRASH: SONY RELEASING PS3 GARBAGE COMPACTING PUZZLER GOMIBAKO AS TRASH PANIC
Sony has taken tomorrow’s Earth Day as cause to announce that Sony Japan’s previously mentioned original PS3 downloadable trash-stacking puzzle game Gomibako to North America as Trash Panic.
As you can see above, the game takes Tetris and channels it through physics-enhanced trash compacting, trying to fit as many kilos in one go as possible, and using heavier objects to smash down breakables as much as possible.
Sony haven’t announced a firm date, simply adding that the game will be released by the end of Spring.
Team up with PSN on Earth Day [Playstation.Blog]
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THE LEFT 4 DEAD T-SHIRTS ONLY FRANCIS COULD HATE
Though the ‘featured items’ here are this thuggish ‘zombie skull’ hoodie (I’d wear it) and more traditionally illustrated T-shirt, why didn’t anyone tell me there’s also a full range of shirts dedicated to the things Francis hates?
My favorite (at right), the woods-hating shirt, but there’s also van hating, and hating on, well, everything Francis hates on (stairs).
Perfect for wearing to your new Survival Mode marathon sessions, or your next things-Francis-hates dance-off.
The Valve Store [Valve]
Previously:
- Surly Hate Machine: Dance to everything Left 4 Dead's Francis can …
- Everything you've wanted to know about Left 4 Dead's Survival Mode …
- Offworld: Fashion archives
- Left 4 Dead: Savage beyond belief – Offworld
- Left 4 Love: Alexandria Neonakis' latest valentines – Offworld
- Ragdoll Metaphysics: Left 4 Dead, The Thinking Man's Braindead …
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