And the second in what will be a very trailer-heavy morning (with Europe’s GamesCom conference in full swing) is another from Harmonix, this time the first gameplay of their TT Games partnered Lego Rock Band, showing just what it means to devastate with the power of its plastic-rock, and I’ll be damned if turning the music chart gems into Lego bricks isn’t the cutest extra touch.
But it still lives on in our hearts. [another joint via Tokyo-go-go]
Due for an official release September 8th, and coming live to the Penny Arcade Expo just a few days before: Metroid Metal‘s Varia Suite, the band’s first recorded collection of — well, as you might guess — metal remakes of various Metroid themes from throughout the game’s history.
Metroid Metal’s site has more information on both the album, and their PAX live performance, and the Silent Uproar record label is taking pre-orders for the album both in standard form, and in a bundle with an awesomely iconic T-shirt.
The fact that Broken Rules’ cult indie PC hit And Yet It Moves would be coming to the Wii was very stealthily announced at this year’s E3, tipped off only by an entry in an accompanying Nintendo release list.
But the studio is now giving themselves more of a public face with the launch of their new site, twitter account, and the release of the video above: the first that shows how the Wii-mote will be integrated into its world-revolving play, and, as a bonus, probably the best use of human-stop-motion I think we’ve ever seen in a games trailer.
LittleBigPlanet creators Media Molecule promised an earth-shaking announcement to be revealed today, which came in the form of the video above, showing off the latest addition to your creator’s toolbox: water.
As minor and elemental as it may seem, it caused ripples enough (sorry) to bring down the Media Molecule site itself, and, on further reflecting (sorry, sorry), with good reason: the team are already expecting it to change the way people interact with its levels in as much the same way as the Metal Gear pack’s Paintinator gun gave the game an action bent.
No word yet on release date, but Sony and MM promise more details soon.
Just launched via PopCap’s online store — where I had no idea you could also buy limited edition Franklin Mint-ish Peggle Master medallions (!) — two new Plants Vs. Zombies T-shirts, including the Moustache Mode design above, and a separate, more groan-worthily punny “Your Grass is Mine” design.
The geographically diverse team behind Tiger Style’s Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, together in one “room”.
[From top left: programmer Jon Whitmore, musician Scott Barber, animator Jen Cha, musician Jef Drawbaugh, lead designer/director Randy Smith, artist Theron Jacobs, artist Amanda Williams, lead engineer David Kalina, designer Julia Tabor, artist Brennan Carr, sound designer Ethan Greene, and programmer Rick Tossavainen]
IP holders Interplay have just sent over news of a new partnership with mobile game giant Gameloft to revive Shiny Entertainment’s 16-bit cult classic Earthworm Jim as a cross-platform downloadable by the end of this year.
Details are still slim on what form the remake will take, but the companies say the game will debut exclusively on Xbox Live Arcade for one month, followed by ports to PlayStation Network, WiiWare, and mobile phones, the iPhone presumably included.
The deal is separate from Sega’s own ongoing campaign to let players vote which 16-bit Genesis classic they’d like to see hit Xbox Live Arcade (though the poll, which was meant to run through the 21st, appears to be down at the moment), but shouldn’t be an issue either way, because the answer there is quite obviously a network-playable version of Toejam and Earl, if you have even like a half a lick of sense.
[Illustration via Autumn Society artist Pedro ‘gogopedro‘ Delgado]
And the second morning Qblock: Gomez, the behatted star of Polytron’s upcoming Fez, in recline.
Sandra Rieunier-Duval’s design is apparently several years old, but still available on a variety of wearables via Noisebot. [via digitalash]
