What’s more wicked than the fact that new Left 4 Dead 2 star Rochelle showed up wearing a pink Depeche Mode T-shirt? Not much, but the rest of the screenshots and video (courtesy 1up) below and behind the jump come quite close.
Valve is showing off the Swamp Fever episode on the floor of Comic-Con, including a newly unveiled boss monster, The Spitter (seen over there to the right, and I mean, ok, yeah, I guess — I think the fact that she’s still stuck in dirty pink heels somehow gives me the willies more than her gaping bloody maw), who, they say, “has an area attack that can split up Survivors or flush them out of their hiding spots.”
Other things to be gleaned from the new footage? Infected hiding below the surface of the swamp-water are going to be a newly terrifying challenge, and the fact that that flamethrower — if the 1up crew’s performance is any guideline — is going to have to be wielded very, very sparingly and carefully.
Two more videos and five hi-res screenshots await after the jump.
One more early drip-feed of Comic-Con information, again from The Behemoth, as GameSpot also gets new videos of the studio’s next game, currently slated for Xbox Live Arcade (but now, presumably, likely headed to PlayStation 3 as well) — still currently simply known as Game 3.
GameSpot has as hard a time as any at succinctly describing the multiplayer game, but comes up with the following description of its play modes:
One of them has you collecting points by picking up bits of gold from a magical, floating golden whale and depositing them in a similarly magical, floating safe; another has players running around the level tagging each block they touch with their team color; and the third tasks players with jumping on their enemies’ heads in order to pop their soul out of their bodies, then holding onto that enemy’s soul for as long as they can in order to rack up the points.
Hit the jump for five (!) more videos of the game in action, and to hear even more of its fantastically space age bachelor pad music (which, as Foobiebletch astutely notes in the comments, includes cuts off Combustible Edison’s I, Swinger album).
The first news starts to trickle in from this year’s Comic-Con, as Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth announces that its latter, best-selling Xbox Live Arcade game will now be coming as a PlayStation 3 downloadable, as well.
GameSpot has the first impressions of the game, which looks more or less identical to the original, but says The Behemoth are hinting that there will be news of PS3 exclusive features at some point in the future.
And then, the second metal game coming this fall: Frozen Codebase — the developer behind Xbox Live Arcade games Screwjumper and Zombie Wranglers — have announced that Konami will publish their latest game for PSN and Xbox Live Arcade: a Cartoon Network tie-in based on the animated series Metalocalypse.
Few details have yet emerged on the game, other than saying that “as a Klokateer, one of the band’s loyal roadies, players will be unleashed on a heinous rampage against rabid mutant fans in brutal combat,” where they will “fight mutants, explore the rooms and dungeons of Mordhaus and protect the METAL faithful.”
They add that the game will feature “three all-new songs from Williams Street Records’ Dethklok 2” album, and a number of additional mini-games.
And, sticking with the theme, one more traditional model from Josh McKible’s always excellent NaniBird papercraft series: the GameBirdTM, from James ‘Score Studios‘ Kay, Japan-based developer who most recently worked as an artist on the Wii’s Harvest Moon series. [thanks, Jean!]
More interesting developments from the Spore camp, as art director Ocean Quigley notes that the game’s most recent patch allows you to export any of your creatures to 3D modeling package Maya (or any Collada-supporting suite) to do with them as you will.
Adds Quigley: “The exported creations include normal, diffuse and specular maps, and are fully rigged and weighted, so you can pose them too,” and hints that building and vehicle support should be coming soon.
Full step by step directions are available in a separate post on Quigley’s blog. Let us know if you create anything wonderful!
First mentioned back in March as Relay for Life — a charity CD being put together to raise money for the American Cancer Society — Kokoromi member Heather Kelley updates to note that the compilation has just been released to iTunes and amazon.mp3 as Songs for the Cure ’09, with some 19 tracks by indie and games-related musicians.
You can preview the tracks via either site, which so far have turned up very strong showings by 2D Boy’s Kyle Gabler with a skittering downtempo track that doesn’t sound far removed from the excellent score he composed for World of Goo, Joshua ‘Zen Albatross‘ Kopstein with a very bouncy chiptune track, and Heather Kelley herself, pulling vocal duties on Don’t Eat Sky’s track Pears that may or may not be about a game itself (reference the lyrics here).
Keep watching Josh Whelchel’s site for more information on the release (which it seems hasn’t quite been updated yet), which, at the end of the initial push, had already raised some $5600 for the cause.
