If you’re as frequently intimidated by the finger-jamming origami complexity of some of the papercraft we regularly feature: here’s one for you, a no-muss Nintendo Entertainment System, released by Cubecraft for no apparent reason, but useful, the site says, as a replacement head for any of their more traditional models.
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In the off chance that you still haven’t heard, Blizzard dropped a late-night release to announce that Evil Dead, Spider-Man and Drag Me to Hell director Sam Raimi has officially been chosen to direct a forthcoming movie based on World of Warcraft, alongside The Dark Knight/12 Monkeys producer Charles Roven, and 300/Watchmen/The Hangover production company Legendary Pictures.
Blizzard has yet to announce any further details except to say that its senior VP of creative development Chris Metzen will also be co-producing the film, which is tentatively slated for 2011 release, and will begin shooting, Variety reports, after Raimi completes Spider-Man 4.
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Apparently we’re in the midst of a Very Musical Wednesday, so let’s keep it going as strong as could be imagined with this: the latest, long anticipated and entirely free EP from frequently featured Dallas hacked-up hardware shoegaze (or are we actually calling it chip-gaze now?) outfit Tree Wave, simply titled 10 Inch.
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It’s hard to pick just one of the four tracks to feature, but above is my favorite, realaudio9, which comes as close to the gloriously upbeat, muddied ethereal drone of My Bloody Valentine as I believe is allowed by law, before then opening up into a section of hypnotic cut-up rhythm.
It’s a bit of a departure from their earlier Cabana EP, which relied much more blatantly on the sounds of the Atari 2600’s SynthCart, C64 equivalent CynthCart, and a firmware hacked Epson LQ500 dot-matrix printer, all instruments of Tree Wave lead Paul Slocum’s own design.
But, all four tracks are extremely strong, and carry hints of off-kilter ‘oriental’ melodies that vaguely remind me how much I’ve missed now-defunct Athens group Macha (see also, especially: their collaborative EP with Bedhead).
Slocum’s had some difficulty keeping the site alive for all the downloading, but it looks like it’s back to stable now: grab the EP while you still can. [UPDATE: Slocum’s mirrored the release here, too, if you’re having download troubles.]
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Take this as an implied mea-culpa: in my quick-post yesterday I noted Nintendodpad’s news about Experimental Gameplay Project co-founders Kyle Gabler, Kyle Gray, and Allan Blomquist collaborating on a new WiiWare project based on an old EGP experiment, and shorthanded — with the post’s 140 character brevity, and as did Nintendopad — their ‘company’ as 2D Boy.
Though Gabler and Blomquist did work together on the WiiWare version of World of Goo as 2D Boy, this new proposed project is being undertaken without the involvement of 2D Boy co-founder Ron Carmel, and so — as they’ve just clarified in a new Experimental Gameplay post — is not to be confused with a new 2D Boy game.
The game is still, the team says, due to be based on a pre-relaunch EGP prototype (all of which you can find here), but they add (luridly) that “it’s probably best not to speak about it in more detail prematurely in case the game doesn’t evolve as we hope and we need to shoot that baby in the crib.”
And that’s also not to say that work on 2D Boy’s sophomore effort isn’t moving forward, though Gabler says there’s nothing more to say on that yet, as he and Carmel “are shy and afraid to announce prematurely against World of Goo sized expectations, because we might have a Britney sized meltdown.”
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From the 8-bit Operators original, to Miles Davis tribute Kind of Bloop, to Daft Punk, to Weezer, the chiptune cover compilation craze is in full swing, and appears to be not ending any time soon, as True Chip Till Death digs up information on Emulator Punks!!, a new Russian tribute to electropunk outfit The Prodigy.
Above is the first sample from the album, with Paza Rahm‘s “Charly (Trip Into Drum and Bass Paza Chip Remix)”: more information on the upcoming release can be dug up via the official site.
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Illustrator Steph Laberis — the same as behind my favorite retro-ad-art sticker of Stay Puft that just landed in LittleBigPlanet — creates this scene from Chrono Trigger, saying “I had always imagined that when the Chrono Crew first arrived in Zeal that there was a moment of respite and celebration; to have come from the harsh dark ages to a temperate, floating paradise,” and adding, “I can’t tell you what wonderful project this was done for – yet – but come August 11th, you’ll know!”
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Kloonigames’ Petri Purho gives us a time-lapsed look into the development of his Post I.T. Shooter, and proves that even under the seven-day-stress that the Experimental Gameplay Project imposes, there’s always, always still time for Team Fortress and Spelunky.
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Japanese illustrator Yoshii goes all Dotter Dotter and gives us Travis Touchdown in 3D 2D. [via Tiny Cartridge]
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A fast update with the more or less kind of cringe-worthy antics of puppet monkey and puppet rooster, as Namco intros the fact that their PS3 Katamari Damacy collection — Katamari Tribute — will be playable at the upcoming ComicCon, via the PlayStation.Blog. Try to just focus on the background music.
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Just revealed by Sega (without much further exposition): the first look at the Wii Fit Balance Board-enabled version of Super Monkey Ball, Step & Roll, due for an “early 2010” release.
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