Currently making the rounds is Technology Review’s look at “five futuristic interfaces” on display at SIGGRAPH 2009 (including a few previously featured on Offworld), but more immediately commercialized is the one above: Sony’s EyePet, due out this holiday for PS3 and recently captured live by Engadget.

Though its Monchichi-esque design has never quite struck a chord with me, the interface to X-ray peer directly into his little body suddenly did, and now I’m officially sold. [via Augmentify]

Dean Dodrill’s Dust: An Elysian Tail — in development for Microsoft’s Dream Build Play XNA Game Studio contest (which closes submissions today) — has learned its 2D brawler lessons well, and is easily one of the most techno/visually stunning showings to come out of a single-man studio (Dodrill’s done “programming, writing, artwork, and sound effects/voices”, and left only the music to friends).

See his site for updates on the game, and on the related film version he’s working on as well. [via Christian Nutt]

ONE SHOT: FLASH BURN IN MOTHERSHIP ZETA

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8.6.2009

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Not to be outdone by Alex Wiltshire’s recent chroma-smeared set of Wipeout HD shots, Duncan Harris ups the photo-pugilism by again taking to Fallout 3‘s Wasteland — this time its newly released Mothership Zeta DLC — and returning with this abstracted “vulgar display of firepower“.

ONLY ON OFFWORLD: PREVIEW JAMES KOCHALKA’S GAME BOY ADVANCE ALBUM ‘DIGITAL ELF’

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8.5.2009

Brandon Boyer

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As you may have spotted via his American Elf site, Offworld’s Monster Mii and Superf*ckers Review creator James Kochalka has just released his latest Superstar album, Digital Elf, this time with a twist: all 15 songs were composed and performed on his Game Boy Advance in Nanoloop.

This isn’t quite your usual chiptune affair, though: if you recall his Offworld-original sexy holiday song for Monster Mii Zex, or his Superf*ckers theme song, you’ll know exactly what to expect.

The Digital Elf album’s just gone up for sale exclusively at Burlington, VT’s Pure Pop, and Kochalka’s sent over one track — the brilliantly self-mythologizing Robot Shark — for your preview perusal below.

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Follow all of Kochalka’s exploits and find links to his comics and anthologies at AmericanElf.com, hear more 8-bit Kochalka with this sloopygoop remix, The Golden Booger (!), and see more live music performances from Giant Robot’s recent exhibition.

SCREENBURN: LOWREZ’S GLITCHED-OUT ARCADE BOOT-SCREEN T-SHIRTS

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8.5.2009

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For the person that finds ErrorWear’s Pac-Man killscreen shirt just a bit too, like, obvious: LowRez is offering a series of shirts featuring the glitch-out bootup screens of various arcade games, named only by their year of release.

Above: Booting1982a, Booting1982b, and Booting1980. Tons more pixel, vector, and retro designs are also available at their web shop. [Well spotted as usual, GSW]

WITNESS, SERVED: FLASHBANG PARODY NUMBER NONE WITH TIME DONKEY SITE

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8.5.2009

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The indie-in-joke of the week: Minotaur China Shop creators Flashbang serve Braid studio Number None with this newly launched site for their previously covered chrono-warping game Time Donkey that begins with the hauntingly familiar quote above.

Where have we seen that? Ah, right: the Tao Te Ching snippet that leads you into the site for Number None’s just announced new game The Witness.