Did you expect LittleBigPlanet to celebrate 4th of July weekend any other way? Available as a free download July 2nd in all territories, complete with “glowing flames of fabric” on her torch of enlightenment.
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NeoGAF user turk128 keeps the Scribblenauts viral train chuggin’ along with ‘naut-i-cized tributes to Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, and, should you page through the thread, many, many, many more. [via TinyCartridge]
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YouTube user ‘Arodoraa‘ plants a bit of thatgamecompany’s flower all over Maxis’s design-your-own-quest expansion Spore: Galactic Adventures…
… a fitting crossover from the same person who also got their Pikmin in my Half Life 2. [via, logically, former Boom Blox and now thatgamecompany producer Robin Hunicke]
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And one last Rolando 2 update to close out the week, but here, creator Simon Oliver takes us not simply on a tour of its worlds, but rather on how ngmoco’s Xbox Live-ish Plus+ service will be utilized. As it turns out, even a platformer is as ripe for challenges and leaderboards as a competitive FPS or tower defense game.
And: earlier in the week, ngmoco posted this update of one of the game’s most smartly integrated features (from the perspective of the iPhone as a uniquely converged device), in which NinjaTune’s Mr. Scruff — who provided the beats for the original Rolando, as well — here gets his own dedicated character and ‘Music Shack’, which serves not just as a soundtrack jukebox, but which takes you directly to the song’s iTunes entry to purchase with a double-click.
And lastly: the newly unveiled avatar creator might seem a superfluous ‘gimme’ addition to the website, but it again very smartly doubles as an iPhone wallpaper generator, a personalized icon creator for your Plus+ profile, and comes housed in a ‘hot or not’ style open competition for users to vote each up or down (though poor Locke here is currently suffering in the polls underneath snaggletoothed Obama-landos and more than a few disfigured Jackson tributes). Even if its brand of colorful platforming doesn’t quite strike your personal fancy, you have to admit that they’ve got their social engagement down to a science more than nearly everyone in the App Store.
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Another week, another #fezfriday: this time, the building blocks in their trixellated form, which would probably make a wicked T-shirt of their own.
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Another month, another NYC Pulsewave showcase (Saturday, June 27th, click here for details), another brilliant No Carrier NES rom flyer, this time gone all Star Soldier.
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Illustrator Jude Buffum (who you remember for his 8-bit Keyboard Cat) has many more politically powerful illustrations (see: Dick Cheney’s Punch-Out, and War Machine), but the zen-like recursive beauty of his ‘Playered‘ struck me more than the rest. [via Kimiaki Yaegashi’s always wonderful OFP]
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I’ve played this Lost: The Game, and even this Lost: The Game, but the whole time, I would have much rather been playing that Lost: The Game. [Adam Campbell, via Tiff]
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