WITNESS, SERVED: FLASHBANG PARODY NUMBER NONE WITH TIME DONKEY SITE
The indie-in-joke of the week: Minotaur China Shop creators Flashbang serve Braid studio Number None with this newly launched site for their previously covered chrono-warping game Time Donkey that begins with the hauntingly familiar quote above.
Where have we seen that? Ah, right: the Tao Te Ching snippet that leads you into the site for Number None’s just announced new game The Witness.
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LOST MY INDIAN DRUM: THE LATEST TRAILER FOR AMANITA’S MACHINARIUM
If you’ve been following the progress of Samorost creator Jakub ‘Amanita‘ Dvorsky’s Flash adventure Machinarium, the first 40 seconds of this latest teaser trailer will look fairly familiar. Stick with it long enough, though, and he’ll prove to you that everything you’ve seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg, wonders-wise: the sad tale of the drumless drummer just about broke my heart.
Machinarium is due for release on October, and, as mentioned, pre-ordering now nets you a downloadable EP of the game’s soundtrack.
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THE NEW SECRETNESS: POPCAP’S LATEST EVONY VS. ZOMBIES ADS
I guess the lesson here is create a banner campaign so artfully played that people will run it for free: PopCap sends over another selection of its Evony parodying ads, the one above so perfectly pitched at the most egregious of the originals, and the game itself already so firmly cemented in Offworld’s collective mind that I’m tempted to say they truly transcend their purpose. Below: another pair. Of ads.
The ads at their original resolution, as requested, are below the fold.
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TEST TUBES: SEGA’S LONG-FABLED VIRTUA HAMSTER ROM RELEASED
Just officially dumped (and replacing an early unfinished demo ROM) by Sega fanatics at SegaSaturno and released for public enjoyment: Virtua Hamster, a Genesis 32X S.T.U.N. Runner-esque maze/race game that was in still in development at Sega of America when the company decided to discontinue the hardware add-on.
The footage above is apparently not representative of the speed and graphics of the game running on actual hardware, but presumably the community’s already beavering away at emulator compatibility. Check this site for more of the game’s troubled history. [via Lost Levels]
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MEGA KNIT: GINREI’S MEGA MAN, PROTOMAN, BASS HATS
What’s the adage, something about not wearing your Katamari hat after Labor Day? Something. For the rest of the year, then: crocheter Ginrei‘s Mega Man cap, also available in Bass and Protoman flavors.
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EX-HEX: BACKBONE DETAIL TURN-BASED STRATEGY REMAKE MILITARY MADNESS: NECTARIS
Though the game is eventually due on WiiWare and Xbox Live Arcade as well, at the PlayStation.Blog, Backbone designer Kyle Vincent Tunison details the forthcoming remake of Hudson’s original cult-hit TurboGrafx-16 hex-strategy game Military Madness, due at an as-yet unspecified date later this year.
Not to be confused with Nectaris: Military Madness (the original PlayStation remake [which included some 130+ maps]), Military Madness: Nectaris is a note-for-note rebuild of the 16-bit original — with the obvious graphical caveat and rebuilt AI — and will contain an additional ten maps designed specifically for its online/local multiplayer, with new upgradable vehicle and squads.
Above is the original trailer for the game: ignore the platform branding, the game is said to be identical for all three downloadable outlets, bar some multiplayer maps for the WiiWare version. For more background on the series and its 20 year history across a wide variety of platforms, see this dedicated fan site.
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ONE SHOT: TETRISINA, BEJEWELED
And one more Autumn Society teaser before this Friday’s show opening: Daisy Church‘s royal queen of the House of Tetris, complete with Swarovski crystal adornment.
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ONE SHOT: LINK AIMS FOR THE EYE
Point blank archery by illustrator Pedro ‘gogopedro‘ Delgado, yet another Autumn Society ace, though the image here won’t be part of their 8-bit And Beyond show. The eventual show piece will, however, likely be similarly Zelda related.
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CRASH COURSE: VALVE ANNOUNCE NEW DOWNLOADABLE LEFT 4 DEAD CAMPAIGN
Valve has just announced the latest round of DLC set for the original Left 4 Dead with Crash Course, a new campaign due in September that will “bridge the gap between the end of the No Mercy campaign and the beginning of Death Toll” — with “new locations, new dialogue from the original cast, and an explosive finale.”
Valve says that while the campaign will work in both co-op and survival mode, “the primary goal of “Crash” is to deliver a complete Versus mode experience in just 30 minutes, resulting in a streamlined version of the game’s existing Versus campaigns,” and will include “a recharge timer for infected teammates… and item spawn behavior has changed for more balanced gameplay.”
The new campaign will be available as a free update for PC players, and will cost 560 Points for Xbox 360 users.
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TAITO TEASE IPHONE PUZZLE BOBBLE [UPDATED]
[UPDATE: I got this half right and half wrong — both images in conjunction were meant to signify that Puzzle — not Bubble — Bobble was headed to the App Store, the company has written in to say. I was most of the way there!]
Over at the company’s newly founded Facebook group, Taito have done a double-shot of teasing about its next iPhone steps following the release of Space Invaders: Infinity Gene, with the above image undeniably a message that one of the company’s signature games, Bubble Puzzle Bobble, is slated for an appearance on the device sooner than later.
The second image corroborates that, but adds a little more intrigue: though it’s dominated by Bobble‘s green dino Bub, the scattered bits at bottom seem to hint that other revivals are on their way, though the only one that juts out blatantly is the stork-legged star of their 8-bit import oddity Chack’n Pop at bottom right-ish and top-right.
That bottom left image, though, probably isn’t anything but the broken down component parts of what will eventually be the bubble-launcher in an inevitable tilt-enabled version of Puzzle Bobble — I think the only bit I’m drawing a blank on is that armor-suit, coin-pile and ladder at far-bottom-right.
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