ONE SHOT: THE PITT, INFECTED
Even before the upcoming episode-linking Crash Course DLC was announced, Left 4 Dead fanatics were hard at work piecing together the game’s deeper underlying story we were all too frantically struggling to survive to notice.
Unearthed: the game’s location (Pennsylvania, notably No Mercy’s Philadelphia and Dead Air’s Pittsburgh, making it the second Wasteland of a city that year), the map that draws a solid line between each episode (above), and screenshots and dialogue of the half-infected news-chopper pilot who we presumably will see more of in Crash Course proper. [via Tom]
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ONE SHOT: GLEN BROGAN’S ARCADE PIN-UP
Glen ‘albino raven‘ Brogan’s retro-pin-up, really honestly probably the last featured submission for Phillie’s Autumn Society 8-bit & Beyond show, which — last warning! — opens tonight at Brave New Worlds‘ 45 N 2nd St. location, from 6-10pm.
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MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE: THE CASE OF GUITAR HERO’S MISSING EFFECTS PEDAL
Little known factoid: Harmonix had always intended to include a packed-in pedal with their very first version of PlayStation 2’s Guitar Hero, but were denied by an obscure Sony clause that limited each game’s number of peripherals to just one (the one, in this case, being the guitar itself).
Four years later, and finally — I have suddenly learned via FakePlasticRock — Mad Catz has filled the void with an Electro-Harmonix (no relation) branded Rock Band 2 version which may be the first third-party accessory I purchase in as long as I can remember (though FPR also notes that, with an extension cord, your standard-issue Rock Band drum pedal works in a pinch [!]).
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VIDEO PIXELS: GRANT ORCHARD’S LOVE SPORT SERIES
For some time now I’ve meant to split out a new category for video/motion graphics pieces that aren’t necessarily at all games-related, but are either games-inspired, or should inspire games. The problem: I can’t think of a hamball obscure-music-referencing metaphorically-stretched name for them. If you’ve got one: leave it in the comments below for consideration!
Anyway: here’s one anyway, which apparently I am wickedly late on — two years later and some 1.3 million YouTube views in — Love Sports pixel animations, from Studio AKA designer Grant Orchard. Above is the YouTube hit Paintballing, but MTV’s Qoob site (the same that hosts LittleBigPlanet artist Rex Crowle’s Grip Wrench series) has nine more, including High Diving below.
All found thanks to Puit Wars creator Florian Hufsky, which should come as no shock if you’ve been keeping an eye on what he’s creating himself.
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ONE SHOT: OFF-MARKET KNOCK-OFF POKéMON
Available at your local back-alley card table, between the two dumpsters, covering the steam vent, from a leathery skinned man you’re pretty damn sure is not Professor Oak despite the stick-on name tag on his moth-eaten lab coat. By Kim ‘Draike‘ Kamowski, available for the weekend as a T-shirt from teextile. [via Blog Agog]
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ONE SHOT: THE WOMEN OF LEISURE SUIT LARRY
James ‘Harvey James‘ Harvey catalogs the women of Leisure Suit Larry in a baaasically kind of SFW gallery, to prove that the games “embody the worst excesses of late 80s / early 90s design.”
He adds: “There is a seriously ugly and amazing coffee table art book dying to be made out of this.”
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TANOOKI IN WOOL: MICHELLE RHEAUME’S CROCHETED MARIOS
I will be straight up damned if Michelle Rheaume’s crocheted Mushroom Kingdom-onians aren’t the cutest Mario home-crafted toys I’ve ever seen. Patterns and completed custom figures are available via her Etsy account (the Tanooki Mario has since been sold), and you can see more sold-out items on her Flickr, which I’ll bet you she’d be happy to craft on request.
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LISTEN: FLOW ON A G-STRING
Above: a May 16th performance of Los Angeles’ Golden State Pops Orchestra playing selections from thatgamecompany’s flOw, as composed by Austin Wintory. An MP3 of the section is also streaming at the official PlayStation.Blog.
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TWEET (#3168137360)
Offworld (by which I mean me) will be spending the rest of the day with Metroid Prime devs Retro. Regular posting to resume tomorrow! (more…)
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ONE SHOT: FREE-RUNNING THROUGH FALLOUT
And one more entirely unrelated postcard from Duncan Harris’s Wasteland, featuring an unexpected visitor.
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