UNDEAD CHIC: POPCAP UNLEASHES OFFICIAL PLANTS VS. ZOMBIES T-SHIRTS
Just launched via PopCap’s online store — where I had no idea you could also buy limited edition Franklin Mint-ish Peggle Master medallions (!) — two new Plants Vs. Zombies T-shirts, including the Moustache Mode design above, and a separate, more groan-worthily punny “Your Grass is Mine” design.
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ONE SHOT: THE GAME DEVELOPMENT OFFICE OF TOMORROW, TODAY
The geographically diverse team behind Tiger Style’s Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, together in one “room”.
[From top left: programmer Jon Whitmore, musician Scott Barber, animator Jen Cha, musician Jef Drawbaugh, lead designer/director Randy Smith, artist Theron Jacobs, artist Amanda Williams, lead engineer David Kalina, designer Julia Tabor, artist Brennan Carr, sound designer Ethan Greene, and programmer Rick Tossavainen]
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RETURN OF THE WORM: INTERPLAY, GAMELOFT REVIVING EARTHWORM JIM FOR XBLA, PSN, WIIWARE
IP holders Interplay have just sent over news of a new partnership with mobile game giant Gameloft to revive Shiny Entertainment’s 16-bit cult classic Earthworm Jim as a cross-platform downloadable by the end of this year.
Details are still slim on what form the remake will take, but the companies say the game will debut exclusively on Xbox Live Arcade for one month, followed by ports to PlayStation Network, WiiWare, and mobile phones, the iPhone presumably included.
The deal is separate from Sega’s own ongoing campaign to let players vote which 16-bit Genesis classic they’d like to see hit Xbox Live Arcade (though the poll, which was meant to run through the 21st, appears to be down at the moment), but shouldn’t be an issue either way, because the answer there is quite obviously a network-playable version of Toejam and Earl, if you have even like a half a lick of sense.
[Illustration via Autumn Society artist Pedro ‘gogopedro‘ Delgado]
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ONE SHOT: QBLOCK DOES FEZ
And the second morning Qblock: Gomez, the behatted star of Polytron’s upcoming Fez, in recline.
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ONE SHOT: ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM
Sandra Rieunier-Duval’s design is apparently several years old, but still available on a variety of wearables via Noisebot. [via digitalash]
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WHILE I GENTLY WEEP: FINAL BEATLES: ROCK BAND TRACKS REVEALED
Alongside the third trailer above — about which I’ll say stick through it specifically for the last five familiar seconds — Harmonix has revealed the last 19 tracks of the 45 included on disc minus, apparently, a secret final track.
I’m only weeping because the one track I’ve been holding out basically desperate hope for is nowhere to be found, meaning my last recourse is to cross my fingers for the rest of Revolver to come as DLC. Either way, the final tracks included are below:
• “Boys” / Cavern Club
• “A Hard Day’s Night” / Ed Sullivan Theater
• “I’m Looking Through You” / Shea Stadium
• “If I Needed Someone” / Shea Stadium
• “Ticket to Ride” / Shea Stadium
• “Drive My Car” / Budokan
• “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Getting Better” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Good Morning” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Hello, Goodbye” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Hey Bulldog” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Dear Prudence” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Helter Skelter” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Something” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Come Together” / Abbey Road Dreamscape
• “Don’t Let Me Down” / Rooftop Concert
• “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” / Rooftop Concert
• “I Me Mine” / Rooftop Concert
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ONE SHOT: QBLOCK DOES SPELUNKY
The protagonist of my constant companion Spelunky, as created in new favorite 3D pixel art site, Qblock.
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LISTEN: 8-BIT MILES DAVIS TRIBUTE ALBUM KIND OF BLOOP RELEASED
Now available to all the Kickstarter contributors who helped make the project possible: Kind of Bloop, the 8-bit remake of Miles Davis’ jazz classic Kind of Blue spearheaded by Andy ‘Waxy‘ Baio.
For the general public, the album will be available as a $5 download this Thursday, August 20th (and CDs for the Kickstarters are expected to be shipped in two weeks), but you can preview clips of all five tracks now at the Kind of Bloop website. And I suggest that you do: Shnabubula’s take on All Blues (YouTube of the original) is especially jaw-dropping (though you’ll have to wait for the full release to hear its goosebump-inducing crescendo/breakdown).
All five takes, though, have proven out Baio’s experiment: the unlikely partnering of good jazz’s organic, unrestrained structure via chiptune’s rigid, digital, mathematical rendering is both entirely possible and fantastically glorious as a result.
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GET STICKY: FANS BRINGING KENTA CHO’S TUMIKI FIGHTERS TO IPHONE
More good weekend news for the iPhoners: indie devs Jeremy ‘vega89191’ Patterson and Michel Fortin have announced that they’ve just submitted an officially sanctioned tilt-sensitive port of Kenta ‘ABA‘ Cho’s candy-colored sticky shooter Tumiki Fighters to the App Store.
Fighters, you’ll recall, also received an official port to the Wii as Majesco’s Blast Works, and Cho’s overhead vector shooters rRootage and Noiz2sa also received an iPhone port by UK dev Lazrhog late last year.
Patterson also let drop that there are tentative plans to create a compilation album-type of some of Cho’s remaining games like Mucade and Gunroar as their followup.
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DROPSHIP PRICE-DROP: NGMOCO’S DUAL-STICK IPHONE SHOOTER NOW FREE
The iPhone-owner’s best weekend surprise: ngmoco have dropped the price of their dual-stick shooter Dropship [App Store] — one of the finest examples of their early ‘fast apps’ — to zero, and you now have no excuse to kick off your mission to rescue all your Address-Book friends from peril.
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