Just announced by Nintendo for a late August release: Metroid Prime Trilogy, a three-pack set bringing together the first two GameCube Metroid chapters remade with true widescreen and Wii-mote control support, alongside Corruption, the third game in the series already available on Wii, for the cost of one game.
Keep your eyes on the Prime Trilogy site for more information.
Here’s the deal: Boing Boing has come into possession of some wicked footage of an anonymous Atari Computer Camp excursion that has everything you could ever want from grainy stock video: namely, yellowed and over-saturated money shots of retro-tech, and a bevy of over-eager and still-innocent pre-teens banging out BASIC to make crossword crosses out of the words Van Halen (no joke!) and gawping at the awesome limitless power and future of computers.
Here’s the catch: neither of the videos — the first clocking in at about seven minutes, and the second coming in at seven and a half — have any sound at all.
And so: given Offworld/Boing Boing’s sizable audience of chiptune/junk-tech musicians, we thought we’d throw the score open to you. If you’re interested in submitting some of your music for the videos, which will be broadcast on BBtv at a later date, send an email to brandon@offworld.com with the subject line “Atari Computer Camp” and we’ll dig through and select our favorites from there. Bonus points awarded for (but certainly not limited to) composing on actual 8-bit Atari tech.
Hit the jump for more inspirational shots of the kids at work (and play). (more…)
The latest look into the procedurally generated cities of indie dev Introversion’s still-as-yet maddeningly undetailed upcoming game Subversion.
In the first of what promises to be a viral series leading up to Brütal Legend‘s October release, LucasArts vet and Double Fine head Tim Schafer continues to prove his acting mettle by making this appearance alongside Jack Black and Steve Agee, a performance so tour de force that it makes Black puke.
Brütal Legend [EA/Double Fine]
Flashbang’s previously posted Crane Wars prototype from Matt and Adam Mechtley is now officially the next game to come to Blurst — the web-game portal that brought you Minotaur China Shop, Blush and Paper Moon — and, from the extensive over-the-shoulder video above, it’s picking up overtones of a union-versus-scab battle as well.
During the 14-ish minute video, you’ll see that union worker concept image I posted a few weeks back come to life, actual gameplay after the 10ish minute mark, and a brief shot of Mary Roach’s science of orgasm Ted talk.
Work in Progress: Crane Wars [Flashbang]
Part of illustrator Lauren Gregg‘s fantastic Nerdimal series (which also covers anthopomorphic Star Trek, Apple, comic book, skate, band nerds and more), and still available — if you hurry! — in a super-affordable limited edition print run of 100.
In our neverending search to discover everything Left 4 Dead‘s Francis hates, we hit a stumbling block at ihatevans.com, as it turns out Francis hates everything you’ve ever ‘tweet’ed about hating too. [via the increasingly alarmingly L4D-obsessed Alice Taylor]
The latest in Dylan Hayes‘ attempts to tear down Street Fighter to its constituent parts yields what I’m assuming is nothing more than low-bit collision boxes battling underneath an abstract sky. Only the dizzy birds, blood, and one lonely fish remain. [via Mike]
Valve channel vintage Charles Atlas for the latest in the continuing struggle between the Sniper and the Spy leading up to TF2‘s latest update. See the official page for an explanation of what’s going on here, though it does honest to god boil down to new jar-of-pee weaponry, ala the team’s April Fool’s gag [via Valve].
