NOBODY’S POISSON: MICROSOFT ANNOUNCE XBOX 360 ALPINE LEGEND
Microsoft use April 1st to announce Alpine Legend for Xbox 360, in which you “take your band through all the alpine rights of passage: a mountainous village tour, recording sessions in a log cabin studio, overcoming throat soother addiction, and even competing in a live yodel off.”
Limited edition tri-horn pack and mountain goat add-on sold separately.
Alpine Legend home [Microsoft]
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NOBODY’S POISSON: WORLD OF WARCRAFT LETS YOU PIMP YOUR MOUNT
Blizzard use April 1st to announce the latest feature coming to World of Warcraft, which I’ll let them explain:
Tired of your mount looking like every other raptor, wolf, horse, kodo, or nightsaber out there? Want to spice it up with some armor plating, a few spikes or chains, or maybe even some flaming decals? Then Z to the A to the zzber (whew, that’s a mouthful!) will be glad to welcome you to his shop where you can epic-ize your mount with some phat total pimpage!
Coming in a future content patch, we plan to bring you a new feature that will allow you to alter the color, the armor, or add decorations to your in-game mounts. Simply drop in to Zazzber’s Local Fix-‘Er-Up, pay a small fee, and leave your mount there overnight. The next morning, you’ll pick up a mount that is uniquely yours!
In development: Pimp My Mount [Blizzard Europe]
Previously:
Paddle your way through an 8-bit raid – Offworld
One More Go: World of Warcraft, home is where the hearth is – Offworld
Obama's new Tauran Shaman of staff – Offworld
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NOBODY’S POISSON: WOLFIRE CANCEL OVERGROWTH FOR SMALL TANK
Indie dev Wolfire — the team behind those always excellent Design Tour videos — have used April 1st to announce that their anthropomorphic animal 3rd person adventure Overgrowth has been deemed too niche even for the indies, and that they’re instead focusing their attention on hyper-cute World War 2 action game Small Tank for OnLive, XBox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, Steam and WiiWare.
The problem? It kind of looks brilliant — somewhere between Advance Wars, Metal Gear and the maligned 3D entry in the Metal Slug series — and I actually want to play. Maybe next year, guys?
Overgrowth squashed by SMALL TANK [Wolfire Blog]
Previously:
At the core of the World of Goo – Offworld
A deeper look at Knytt Stories – Offworld
The dynamic fluids of Chronic Logic's Gish – Offworld
Diving deeper into Aquaria – Offworld
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NOBODY’S POISSON: HIDEO KOJIMA’S METAL GEAR SURPRISE
Konami’s uses April 1st to debut a new video that, awesomely, starts with Hideo Kojima’s GDC keynote presentation slides before corrupting and giving away the Metal Gear Solid 5 debut that everyone secretly was hoping for last week.
Kojima Productions April 1st movie [Konami]
Previously:
Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima keynoting Game Dev Conference …
Touch Snake: Kojima opens iPhone Metal Gear site – Offworld
Metal Gear Ac!d coming to mobile phones – Offworld
LittleBigWatch: Media Molecule Adds Metal Gear – Offworld
Michael Lau unveils Metal Gear crossover toy Snake Square – Offworld
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LISTEN: LITTLE-SCALE’S VGA-HACKED SUPER PANDA BLAST REMIX
Today’s most tender chiptune remix: Sebastian ‘Little Scale‘ Tomczak softens Super Panda Blast’s “LSDJ Test” and displays it through a hacked VGA adapter that renders sound as beautiful glitches.
Video for LSDJ Test by Super Panda Blast Remix [little-scale]
Previously:
Offworld: Music Archives
The Bitcrushing Sega Master System – Offworld
Listen: Pixelmod Records' Merry Pixmas Compilation – Offworld
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LIGHTWORKS: GEORGE MICHAEL BROWER’S ART-SCHOOL PROJECT RHYTHM GAME I
One part Donkey Konga, two parts of Toshio Iwai’s studio art, and a hint of super clean Swiss design: UCLA game design work shop student George Michael Brower’s Rhythm Game I is a little bit retro-rhythm and a little bit future-cool.
Rhythm Game I post mortem [George Michael Brower, via Attract Mode]
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THRIFT SCORE: JUNK PAINTINGS ENHANCED WITH GIANT KATAMARI
Spotted — and then quickly snapped up by — Gamasutra’s Simon Carless, this fantastic etsy find in which loudxmouse enhances thrift store junk paintings by adding a rolling katamari into the landscape.
Note to the artist: Please, please make this an ongoing series so I can grab the next?
custom katamari painting by loudxmouse [etsy, via Simon]
Previously:
Beautiful Star: Katamari Damacy Tribute coming to PS3 – Offworld
Katamari Damacy coming to DSi as… a block puzzle game? – Offworld
iPhone Katamari gets Exquisite addition – Offworld
Katasushi Damacy in a Bento Box – Offworld
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DEMAKE RETAKE: NES COVERS OF MODERN DAY FAVORITES
Following their ‘modern classics’ work in 2008 on an Atari 2600 demake’d cover series, the Minus World returns with NES-ized covers of modern favorites like Fallout 3, Animal Crossing, LittleBigPlanet and Call of Duty.
NES Modern Classics [The -Minus World]
Previously:
Olly Moss's Penguin-inspired Videogame Classics covers – Offworld
UUDDLRLRBA-Rock: 8-bit Guitar Hero comes to the NES – Offworld
What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2600) – Offworld
The Venture Brothers goes 2600 – Offworld
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HELV-DOUKEN: OLIVER BARRETT’S RETRO-GAME RETRO-DESIGNS
This is several months old, but I’ve just run across and was very taken with this Volkswagen-esque Street Fighter image by Cleveland based illustrator and designer Oliver Barrett.
It was designed for flickr-favorite-meme Make Something Cool Every Day, the same undertaking that has brought us the game-covers-as-Penguin-Classics-books of Olly Moss, and the I Can Read Movies artwork of Mitch ‘Spacesick’ Ansara (as well as Mz. Kat’s engrish children’s book illustrations).
Coincidentally, Barrett’s also the designer behind the excellently nostalgic illo at left, which I’d neglected to mention here at the time.
oliveroliverbarrett [flickr, via Augusto Daniele]
Previously:
Moss gets modern: GTA's most wanted America – Offworld
The meme in motion: Spacesick's It's a Dig, Dig, Dig, Dig Dug …
Engrish.com t-shirts re-imagined as Mary Blair-style children’s book illos – Boing Boing
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SHAPE OF THE FUTURE: THE GORGEOUS CUBES OF WIIWARE PUZZLER KIMI TO BOKU TO RITTAI
Right, well, there’s my week made: every once in a while there’s a game that seems to know exactly which of your buttons to press and before you know it you’re smitten. This time it’s Kimi to Boku to Rittai (You, Me and the Shapes), a new WiiWare game from former D2 creator and Newtonica collaborator Kenji Eno.
The gameplay? Deceptively simple: drop helpless and unpredictable people onto a series of ever-more-complex interconnected cubes and attempt to maintain some semblance of balance and harmony.
The hook? God, just look at that retro-future shiny vector style that sits so perfectly next to Newtonica‘s star-spheres. The game is expected to hit stateside WiiWare in coming months, and appears that it’ll give Nintendo and Skip’s own ArtStyle series a serious run for their money.
Kimi to Boku to Rittai home [Nintendo]
Previously:
The Offworld 20: 2008's Best Indie & Overlooked (pg. 3)
Touch me I'm slick: the iPhone's top Lite versions you shouldn't …
DSi getting more downloadable Art Style, Tetris Attack – Offworld
DSiWare getting double cubic Art Style games, Animal Crossing …
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