ONE SHOT: WASTELAND CLUTTER, IN REAL LIFE
Even with all the hard work gone into creating real live working Pip-Boys, the devil’s in the details, and Weekly Geek‘s Chris Furniss provides templates for and hints on creating your own Fallout 3 Buffout, Med-X syringes and Nuka Cola caps, which I believe are the official currency of PAX, for which these cosplay accoutrements are being created.
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REFER TO INSTRUCTIONS: THE FIRST LOOK AT GREG WOHLWEND’S DIAGRAMMATIC FIG. 8
Though work appears to be continuing on his El Lissitzky-inspired game, Protonaut, Intuition Games’ Greg Wohlwend has also just published this latest look at a game he’s been recently teasing on flickr: Fig. 8, a game (based on an art installation of Wohlwend’s) where players are “rewarded for keeping [a bicycle’s] tracks together while navigating through the surreal world of an ‘architectural’ diagram.”
It’s wholly atypical graphic and level design is actually not quite as surprising when you realize Wohlwend’s one of the designers behind Effing Hail, the previously covered game that played as an interactive version of a retro-textbook infographic.
Wohlwend’s hoping that showing off this much of the game will net him a sponsor — follow his progress via his newly unveiled LOGO-inspired website, Twitter feed, or Intuition Games blog.
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I’M SHOT TO THE MOON: A LOOK AT NO QUARTER’S OWN LUNAR LANDER
Alex Austin updates the Cryptic Sea blog to show off the latest look at No Quarter — the six-game “compilation” in development with Gish and Super Meat Boy‘s Edmund McMillen — specifically, the first long-form look at Odyssey, the Lunar Lander-esque sixth of the game which terrifies me a little, but I’ve got that nightmare thing about the dead, empty expanse of the universe.
As a bonus, if you click through, Austin paints an accurate picture of the indie-gaming all-star party Cryptic Sea held to help test the game as it approaches release: pictured are Braid‘s Jonathan Blow, World of Goo‘s Kyle Gabler, Bit.Trip‘s Alex Neuse and Chris Osborn, Reflect‘s Mike Treanor and Spelunky‘s Derek Yu.
McMillen says the game will be released for PC “soon(ish)”, on Steam.
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CHU ON THIS: SOMETHINGAWFUL’S MSPAINT-A-PIKA
As usual, SomethingAwful’s latest Photoshop busywork — which asked readers to MSPaint-a-Pika — is equal parts forgettable, disturbing, surprising, and sublime.
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LOCKHEED AND LOADED: INFINITY WARD SHOW OFF MULTIPLAYER GUNSHIPS IN MODERN WARFARE 2
It’s the game that’s got other publishers pushing all of their late-year release dates out of its way into 2010, and it’s more guns and ammo than I normally might cotton to, but as I’ve said before, the persistence and leveling achievements that constituted Call of Duty 4‘s multiplayer made it easily one of the best faux-MMOs of 2007/2008, and developer Infinity Ward has just published a look at its online successor.
The biggest change you’ll see here: the ability for players to take control of the AC130 gunship in the midst of your skirmish and pick people off from a distance, precisely in the same way as you could in one of the most quietly disturbing and sobering sequences of CoD4‘s single-player mode.
As you will have seen, will see above, and will probably see many times across all media in the coming months: the game is due for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC on November 10th.
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ABOUT TIME: FLASHBANG REVEAL FIRST TIME DONKEY CONCEPT ART
Back in March we got the first look at a 5-day prototype kicking around the Flashbang offices in the form of Time Donkey, the Minotaur China Shop creator’s self-described “Cursor*10 meets WarioWare meets Raving Rabbids” time-warping platform game.
Though we had — as usual — pretty strong hints that this would be the next official Blurst game via the studio’s changelog twitter feed (and the next that would return Flashbang to their ‘action/machinery + animal’ roots after Blush, Paper Moon and Crane Wars), they’ve just made the news official via an in-depth look at the art direction behind the game.
Specifically, they’ve just showed off the first concept image from new contract artist Justin Messner that illustrates the more cartoonish direction the game is headed, and art director Ben Ruiz lists a number of the aesthetic influences the game’s had, primarily GameCube Zelda entry WindWaker, Capcom’s Wii puzzle game Zack and Wiki, and long-time favorite debut WiiWare game Lost Winds, all examples of limited palettes and blue-sky super-saturated colors.
Flashbang promise more inside-views of the game as it pulls itself together over the coming weeks, but the one-two punch of the video’s mechanics and properly cheery art direction has already got me hooked.
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LISTEN: SIDHE STREAMS MODULE’S SPACE ROCK OPERA SHATTER SOUNDTRACK
Just unveiled for Sidhe’s just-released PlayStation Network Breakout/shooter crossover game Shatter (which I have been far too overwhelmed, game-wise, to properly get my head around, but was previously featured back in May): a new page to both stream and purchase the surprisingly excellent score from Jeramiah ‘Module‘ Ross.
Sidhe says the soundtrack was meant to conjure “80’s new wave, stadium rock and intergalactic space rock opera,” and I can’t argue with a single aspect of that. $9.99 will get you the full downloadable version, and, while you’re there, you can also stream/buy Ross’s contributions to GripShift, Sidhe’s fantastic debut PSP/PSN/XBLA puzzle-racer.
LITTLEBIGWATCH: MARVEL AT MEDIA MOLECULE’S INFAMOUS SACKBOYS
A double-shot of LittleBig-updates, as Media Molecule announce this week’s Sackboy crossover: the morally ambiguous Cole MacGrath, star of Sony/Sucker Punch’s inFAMOUS, available in both sides of the good/evil wooden nickel.
And then: a hold-over from the weekend’s Comic-Con, as the studio follows its 2000AD tie-in with a partnership with Marvel due later this year, and, I mean, how can you even start to deny that duct-taped on Captain America ‘A’. Sony and Marvel say the photos simply represent “concept art of possible costumes… incorporating Iron Man, Wolverine and Captain America, however other characters will be considered.”
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- Triple Rock: Famous or inFamous? Morality and choice in Sucker …
- Reformat the Planet directors visit inFamous devs Sucker Punch …
- One shot, circa 2000 AD: LittleBigPlanet about to get Dredd-ful …
- LittleBigWatch: Media Molecule reveal Ico, Yorda costumes
- LittleBigWatch: the first look at Jon Burgerman's LittleBigPlanet …
- LittleBigWatch: Venkman & Stantz & Spengler & Zeddemore.
- LittleBigWatch: official Ico/LittleBigPlanet crossover art emerges …
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A GHOST IN THE HAND: MATT HAWKINS’ PAPER-PAC
This one, unfortunately, is for looking but not touching only, with no accompanying PDF pattern: Matt Hawkins, one of the papercrafting niche’s most accomplished designers (and creator of the official Urban Paper book) does Pac-Man in his signature Kricfalusi-an over-exaggerated style, and we’ll just ignore the glaring “yeah, but, how did he swallow a non-blue ghost” discrepancy.
Hawkins says the piece will be part of the 80’s Saturday morning cartoon inspired “We’ll Be Right Back… After These Messages” art show at Columbus, Ohio designer toy shop/gallery space Rivet, opening August 1st and running through the rest of the month (with additional art by Double Fine’s frequently featured Scott C).
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