When last we checked in with Greig ‘conquerearth’ Stewart he was using his theremin-chic hacks to outwit Rock Band into thinking he was singing Portal theme Still Alive, and now, he’s tricked his NES into thinking he’s playing Super Mario Bros..
Adds Stewart: “Who needs a Natal when you’ve got a theremin!” [thanks Tiff!]
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It had to happen sooner or later, right? I Am 8-bit timelapser Jude Buffum and 8-bit Jesus musician Doctor Octoroc take the meme where we’ve always wanted to see it go. [via Tiff!]
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As Japan prepares to get its first taste of Bit.Trip:Beat via publisher Arc System Works, Arc uploads this video that I must have just plain overlooked back when the game first got its local release. It’s admittedly a touch on the overproduced side, but still a worthwhile watch to see the Gaijins behind the scenes.
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Architects Russ Berger Design Group take us on a design tour through the infamously lavish (and now defunct) 54th floor studio of Dallas’s Ion Storm (Daikatana, Anachronox)– “a Willy Wonka-esque interpretation of Ion Storm’s ‘workplace wish list'” — without a trace of irony or impending doom.
Projects – ION Storm [RBDG, via Edge Online]
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Scribblenauts artist Edison Yan gives IGN this plus-size wallpaper tribute to ‘Post 217’, which — if you followed the timeline of the game’s eventual domination of this year’s E3 — you might recognize as the specific NeoGAF forum post that opened the floodgates of its viral acclaim. Key sentence from the post: “I FUCKING TRAVELED THROUGH TIME AND JUMPED ON A DINOSAUR AND USED IT TO KILL MOTHERFUCKING ROBOT ZOMBIES.”
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For all those that missed DUTYCYCLE’s GDC week show (myself included), a freshly uploaded video wrapup of performers Mr. Spastic, A_Rival, Two Playa Game, WDUWSTS and cris2600. An EP of all five is still available via the DUTYCYCLE blog.
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Coming June 27 to July 25 to NYC’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery (who currently are displaying some awesome work by former artxgame collaborator Souther Salazar): an exhibition by famed French 8-bit-guerrilla artist Invader, best known for his various tile-mosaic invasions that’ve cropped up in nearly ever major city around the world.
The gallery’s put together the above video to promote the show, which will focus on his later ‘Rubikcubism’ works (which are indeed just about exactly what you’d imagine), though that’s not to say more traditional space invader works won’t be on display (see the preview image at the gallery’s upcoming exhibits page).
As per that page, an opening reception will be held Saturday, June 27th from 7-9pm, and big bonus points will be awarded for anyone to return with big beautiful high res shots for an Offworld Gallery, as well as ‘one shot‘-worthy photos of the inevitable street invasions that will accompany the show.
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More gallery art goodness: currently on display at Tokyo’s Lower Akihabara Gallery is artist Koshi Kawachi‘s “The death of Mario”, a series of pieces that capture the spirit (as it were) more than the letter of Mario’s death.
The title image above, for instance, is — I’m assuming — a pile of the pixel-blocks that’d make up Mario in his earliest Jumpman Donkey Kong days. Kawachi has more images at his exhibit blog, with more d-pad crosses, constructed altars and seedling rebirths for the man that’s died uncountable millions of deaths over the past 25+ years. [via James Harvey]
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J.otto Seibold shows off the art brought to his Giant Robot exhibit all based on his Jottobots artxgame created with Kyle Pulver. Bottom left is totally mine. See a huge photoset of the opening night — including the game being massive projected on the gallery’s outside wall — via Giant Robot’s flickr.
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