My apologies if my google-translate-aided French is way off base, but the plot does thicken as former Dungeon Runners and current Creative Assembly (Total War) concept artist Björn Hurri teases these three burgled scenes from the secret project I featured a few days back. Moreso than ever, I desperately hope it’s something to play.
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Someone at the Food Network is asleep at the wheel for not giving reigning bento champ Anna The Red her own games-related cooking show. The latest: this step by step tutorial to turn your ordinary radishes into Mario mushrooms, with the help of two bits of seaweed. [via Ian Bogost]
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I would sincerely hate to see their alleged six years of development go down the drain, so I hope Sol Team — the team of developers behind Shadows of Lylat, a full, story-driven fan-sequel to Star Fox created in FreeSpace‘s open-source engine — pull the proper 11th hour switch and give us a game simply “inspired by Star Fox” rather than waking the sleeping IP lawyer giants. [via Stefan Constantinescu]
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From videogame orchestra’s Castlevania-esque remake of Island in the Sun, to nordloef’s euro-chip-disco remix of Buddy Holly, to Anamanaguchi, Tugboat and Bit Shifter’s typically excellent showings, the awesomeness of Pterodactyl Squad’s just-released 8-bit Weezer cover compilation album basically speaks for itself.
The tracklist:
1. Island In The Sun (Belmont’s Revisal) – videogame orchestra
2. Holiday – Anamanaguchi
3. El Scorcho – Tugboat
4. The World Has Turned And Left Me Here – Bit Shifter
5. You Won’t Get With Me Tonight – PDF Format
6. Hash Pipe – seal of quality
7. In The Garage – OxygenStar
8. You Gave Your Love To Me Softly – :(
9. We Are All On Drugs – Rabato
10. Jamie – Unicorn Dream Attack
11. Come To My Pod – Mahamajama
12. Why Bother? – I Fight Dragons
13. Buddy Holly – nordloef
14. I Do – arcadecoma.
And it’s free, and you should just go get it now. [via crashfaster]
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There are no ‘friendships‘ in this ‘mortal’ struggle. [via infinitelives]
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From frequent papercraft creator ddi7i4d, whose creations continue to grow increasingly complex: a second, Goomba-whomping Paper Mario automata, which NintendoPapercraft boldly claim can be completed in just half an hour. [via TinyCartridge]
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Though It might not quite be the overhaul that would make Sony’s PlayStation 3 virtual world Home an inescapable daily-getaway, the service is nicking away at my resolve by soon offering — with the help of Namco — a new set of Katamari Damacy outfits, each complete with their very own companion Prince, as seen via andriasang.
And, as the company continues to gear up its fourth entry in the series, PixelJunk creators Q-games have just released screenshots of their own planned Home stage, with specific areas dedicated to each game in the set, as seen with the Racers and Monsters preview above.
The studio is also planning its own line of in-game fashion goods, as above, with a Monsters mask, and an in-game version of the real-world limited line of King of Games T-shirts featured here last month. [via PlayStation LifeStyle]
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Minorly earth-shattering music/game news this morning from the Rock Band camp as they officially unveil The Rock Band Network, a new program for any musician or band to create their own Rock Band tracks and sell them through the game’s online store a new Rock Band Network store.
The Network will work alongside the Xbox 360’s XNA Creators Club, and will let home-users output MIDI song information to accompany their master mix with plugins created especially for digital workstation Reaper, package them together as a Rock Band-compatible track with Harmonix’s own Magma tool, and preview your track in-game with a new ‘Audition mode’ being added in an upcoming patch.
From there you can publish your song to the Creators site (essentially, to the Creators Club community), where it will be peer-reviewed — as XNA games themselves are before they’re released to the Xbox 360’s Community Games section. If the track is approved, it will appear in the Rock Band store at a price point selected by you (between 50 cents to $3), with a 30/70% revenue split (at a to-be-determined percentage) between you and Harmonix/MTV.
For now, the initiative remains exclusive to the Xbox 360, though a caveat says “select songs” may appear on PS3 — presumably, those popular enough with the community to get an officially-pushed release from Harmonix.
See Harmonix’s newly opened site for more information, and to sign up for the early closed-beta trial, which is expected to launch by the end of the month, with an open beta “after August”, and an official launch by the end of the year.
[UPDATE: More information is available in this Billboard writeup, which adds a number of interesting details (corrected above), including the ability for “developers to customize the avatars, camera angles and lighting for the background video rather than using the automatically generated default setting” in Reaper, and HMX training sessions to certify track-makers, which will be officially listed for interested artists and labels.]
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