Alongside the third trailer above — about which I’ll say stick through it specifically for the last five familiar seconds — Harmonix has revealed the last 19 tracks of the 45 included on disc minus, apparently, a secret final track.
I’m only weeping because the one track I’ve been holding out basically desperate hope for is nowhere to be found, meaning my last recourse is to cross my fingers for the rest of Revolver to come as DLC. Either way, the final tracks included are below:
• “Boys” / Cavern Club
• “A Hard Day’s Night” / Ed Sullivan Theater
• “I’m Looking Through You” / Shea Stadium
• “If I Needed Someone” / Shea Stadium
• “Ticket to Ride” / Shea Stadium
• “Drive My Car” / Budokan
• “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Getting Better” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Good Morning” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Hello, Goodbye” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Hey Bulldog” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Dear Prudence” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Helter Skelter” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Something” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Come Together” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Don’t Let Me Down” / Rooftop Concert
• “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” / Rooftop Concert
• “I Me Mine” / Rooftop Concert
The protagonist of my constant companion Spelunky, as created in new favorite 3D pixel art site, Qblock.
Now available to all the Kickstarter contributors who helped make the project possible: Kind of Bloop, the 8-bit remake of Miles Davis’ jazz classic Kind of Blue spearheaded by Andy ‘Waxy‘ Baio.
For the general public, the album will be available as a $5 download this Thursday, August 20th (and CDs for the Kickstarters are expected to be shipped in two weeks), but you can preview clips of all five tracks now at the Kind of Bloop website. And I suggest that you do: Shnabubula’s take on All Blues (YouTube of the original) is especially jaw-dropping (though you’ll have to wait for the full release to hear its goosebump-inducing crescendo/breakdown).
All five takes, though, have proven out Baio’s experiment: the unlikely partnering of good jazz’s organic, unrestrained structure via chiptune’s rigid, digital, mathematical rendering is both entirely possible and fantastically glorious as a result.
More good weekend news for the iPhoners: indie devs Jeremy ‘vega89191’ Patterson and Michel Fortin have announced that they’ve just submitted an officially sanctioned tilt-sensitive port of Kenta ‘ABA‘ Cho’s candy-colored sticky shooter Tumiki Fighters to the App Store.
Fighters, you’ll recall, also received an official port to the Wii as Majesco’s Blast Works, and Cho’s overhead vector shooters rRootage and Noiz2sa also received an iPhone port by UK dev Lazrhog late last year.
Patterson also let drop that there are tentative plans to create a compilation album-type of some of Cho’s remaining games like Mucade and Gunroar as their followup.
The iPhone-owner’s best weekend surprise: ngmoco have dropped the price of their dual-stick shooter Dropship [App Store] — one of the finest examples of their early ‘fast apps’ — to zero, and you now have no excuse to kick off your mission to rescue all your Address-Book friends from peril.
Otherworldly visitors show good taste in retro-gaming, via South African illustrator Tokyo-go-go. [via Ovejas Eléctricas]
Just launched and ready for your doting ‘reblog’s and ‘like’s: Nick Dart‘s Art of the Arcade tumblr, which has already given us this excellent quote about the meaning behind Atari’s instantly iconic logo, and about which he explains:
As a frustrated 24 year old arcade collector and designer, I decided to put Art Of The Arcade together to make people aware of the forgotten design and illustration work that took place in the golden era of arcade gaming in the 70’s & 80’s. The idea behind the site is to try and show this work in a new context, and give exposure to the designers that helped create a billion dollar industry and a new social past time.
Add it to your list which should already include PixelStyle, TextAdventure, Nerd Music, and Box Art. [via FFF]
Patent illustrators are surely in on their own jokes, right? I can conceive of no reality in which the designer behind Fig. 2 of Sony’s newly patented emotion-detecting system didn’t understand what he’d just created, especially as they perfectly distilled What TV Comedy Looks Like.
Either way, it’s proved the perfect weekend distraction for the Photoshop-happy forum-goers at NeoGAF. [via Negatendo]
And now, to kick off a very arty Offworld Friday, the latest official montage from Scribblenauts artist Edison Yan, which — from superhero to chef to bow-and-plunger Robin Hood, to the adorable leek-yielding elephant-rider girl — is filling my brain with all sorts of fancy notions to give a whirl in the future. [via Tiny Cartridge]
Just opened at London’s Lazarides gallery, at 11 Rathbone Place: the latest exhibition of French guerrilla artist Invader, including the Rubikubism mosaic album covers and various, more traditional, invader mosaics and sketches.
Above and below, some fantastic photos from the opening night, via the Arrested Motion blog, where you’ll find high-res versions of each.
The show will be running through September 17th — see Lazarides’ website for more specifics on the show and their gallery. [via guillotine, photos via Arrested Motion]
