Originally linked by Bruce Sterling over at his Wired blog, Slavin covers not only the history and background of the studio (and their fantastic and still too-unknown location/real-world based games like Tokyo’s Print Club sticker popularity contest, Superstar and Facebook’s Parking Wars) and more on Chain Factor/Drop7 than even I knew, but — speaking as he was on the future of TV — makes his strongest point at the end, contending that ‘any screen without a mouse ships “broken”‘.
We’ve seen a short clip of the game in motion before, but WayForward have returned with a longer video of the interplay between the boy and his titular blob, in their new Wii game inspired by David Crane’s NES original.
Offworld favorite indie dev Cactus finally long-form reveals Air Pirates, his LoFi Minds collaborative “game about killing airplanes“, which will be coming next month to UK TV network Channel 4’s “E4” entertainment subsite.
What I hadn’t known before: the Flash game of “pirates, airplanes, giants, loot and secret bases in volcanoes” will apparently include platformer sections, spotted briefly toward the end of the video, which has since doubled my interest.
The latest look at Double Fine’s PS3/Xbox 360 open world metal slasher Brütal Legend introduces the star power the studio’s tapped with its four Rock Gods: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford, and, of course, Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne.
Etsy user obesolete offers this plush toy of one of Silent Hill‘s creepiest conceits (as below): the obliviously joyful and blood-splattered series mascot Robbie Rabbit (only the second most terrifying rabbit-related horror of all time).
Polytron co-founder Phil Fish kicks off his new #fezfriday feature — showing off whatever he happens to be working on in Fez at the moment — with this eye-popping and inter-dimensional work in progress shot of one of the game’s floating islands.
New from Don ‘No Carrier’ Miller, the oft-mentioned current king of NES programming and creator of software-circuit-bender glitchNES: galleryNES, an “an open source picture gallery for the Nintendo Entertainment System” that lets you “create your own pixel art and view it on a real NES in slideshow format.” [via True Chip Till Death]
Work in progress video from homebrew creator Peter Sjostrand, creating the Paper Mario, co-op version of Mega Man we had no idea we wanted until right now — more wallpaper-sized screens are at Sjostrand’s site. [Thanks, Torley!]
This is a heads up simply to point out that there exists a fantastic Picasa gallery that’s collected all things Shadow of the Colossus, from the stupefyingly hi-res screenshots like the above, to scans of its artbook and viral campaign images, and, oddly, a fan-made collectible card game based on Fumito Ueda’s second PS2 masterpiece. [via Tom]
Dredged up from the unknown depths at French gaming site JeuxVideo: the first video of TT Games and Harmonix’s fantastically unlikely crossover Lego Rock Band. While it doesn’t show off any gameplay, per se, since we’ve been playing Rock Band for the past two years, it shouldn’t take too many guesses there as to what to expect.
What it does hint at is some of the environmental destruction detailed several weeks back, as well as the game’s “fantasy locations” (ie. big yes to Lego pirate/castle stages), and, at the tail end, TT Games’ propensity for slapstick bricks.
