VIDEO: ONE MAN ROCK BAND, PLAYING FOUR INSTRUMENTS AT ONCE
Via Waxy: Alex ‘DarthGollumKong‘ Walton does actually pretty good (three stars!) at Blitzkrieg Bop, playing all four Rock Band instruments simultaneously on medium difficulty.
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OFFICIALLY SETTLED: CATAN IN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE IPHONE
Though there’s been a bit of good word surrounding Kolonists, Kayxo’s iPhone strategy game heavily inspired by legendary board game Settlers of Catan, the official Catan site has updated with word that a true iPhone version is currently in development.
The port is to be handled by Exozet Games, the same company behind the Nintendo DS version of the game (pictured right) — which itself is currently available in very limited European release.
Presumably the iPhone version will share a good deal of assets with the DS version, but neither Exozet or the Catan group have offered any further details on features like online multiplayer capabilities, apart from adding that it’s being built with the help of original Catan designer Klaus Teuber. [roundabout via Caryl Shaw]
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ONE SHOT: A KATAMARI DESKTOP FIT FOR THE TWITTERATI
An unintended side-effect of the King’s official arrival to the Twitterscape: this re-purpose-able background/desktop image perfect for all techno-ornithologists everywhere.
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TWEET (#2801589468)
New Twitter follow: Katamari’s @KingOfTheCosmos departs his aloof royally pluralized bits of wisdom (& anachronistic Comic-Con info). (more…)
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COMIC-CON 09: LOBBING LAVA IN Q-GAMES’ PIXELJUNK SHOOTER
This ‘Todd-exclusive’ video from the floor of Comic-Con shows off an as yet unannounced feature from Q-games’ upcoming PS3 downloadable PixelJunk Shooter — an equip-able lava cannon to give you more direct control of your puzzling surroundings — and an even better idea of the fluid- and thermo-dynamics of its caverns. Woo-hoos abound.
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COMIC-CON’S SWAMP FEVER: NEW SCREENSHOTS, VIDEO OF THE LEFT 4 DEAD 2 BAYOU
What’s more wicked than the fact that new Left 4 Dead 2 star Rochelle showed up wearing a pink Depeche Mode T-shirt? Not much, but the rest of the screenshots and video (courtesy 1up) below and behind the jump come quite close.
Valve is showing off the Swamp Fever episode on the floor of Comic-Con, including a newly unveiled boss monster, The Spitter (seen over there to the right, and I mean, ok, yeah, I guess — I think the fact that she’s still stuck in dirty pink heels somehow gives me the willies more than her gaping bloody maw), who, they say, “has an area attack that can split up Survivors or flush them out of their hiding spots.”
Other things to be gleaned from the new footage? Infected hiding below the surface of the swamp-water are going to be a newly terrifying challenge, and the fact that that flamethrower — if the 1up crew’s performance is any guideline — is going to have to be wielded very, very sparingly and carefully.
Two more videos and five hi-res screenshots await after the jump.
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EVEN MORE BEHEMOTH: NEW VIDEOS OF THE BEHEMOTH’S CHAOTIC CUTIE GAME 3
One more early drip-feed of Comic-Con information, again from The Behemoth, as GameSpot also gets new videos of the studio’s next game, currently slated for Xbox Live Arcade (but now, presumably, likely headed to PlayStation 3 as well) — still currently simply known as Game 3.
GameSpot has as hard a time as any at succinctly describing the multiplayer game, but comes up with the following description of its play modes:
One of them has you collecting points by picking up bits of gold from a magical, floating golden whale and depositing them in a similarly magical, floating safe; another has players running around the level tagging each block they touch with their team color; and the third tasks players with jumping on their enemies’ heads in order to pop their soul out of their bodies, then holding onto that enemy’s soul for as long as they can in order to rack up the points.
Hit the jump for five (!) more videos of the game in action, and to hear even more of its fantastically space age bachelor pad music (which, as Foobiebletch astutely notes in the comments, includes cuts off Combustible Edison’s I, Swinger album).
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BEHEMOTH NEWS: CASTLE CRASHERS COMING TO THE PLAYSTATION 3
The first news starts to trickle in from this year’s Comic-Con, as Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth announces that its latter, best-selling Xbox Live Arcade game will now be coming as a PlayStation 3 downloadable, as well.
GameSpot has the first impressions of the game, which looks more or less identical to the original, but says The Behemoth are hinting that there will be news of PS3 exclusive features at some point in the future.
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ONE SHOT: NOBY’S ESSENCE, IN NINE WORDS
Liam Campbell’s illustrated review of Noby Noby Boy is perfect haiku-like succinct.
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METALOCALYPSE NOW: FROZEN CODEBASE PREPPING PSN, XBLA DOWNLOADABLE
And then, the second metal game coming this fall: Frozen Codebase — the developer behind Xbox Live Arcade games Screwjumper and Zombie Wranglers — have announced that Konami will publish their latest game for PSN and Xbox Live Arcade: a Cartoon Network tie-in based on the animated series Metalocalypse.
Few details have yet emerged on the game, other than saying that “as a Klokateer, one of the band’s loyal roadies, players will be unleashed on a heinous rampage against rabid mutant fans in brutal combat,” where they will “fight mutants, explore the rooms and dungeons of Mordhaus and protect the METAL faithful.”
They add that the game will feature “three all-new songs from Williams Street Records’ Dethklok 2” album, and a number of additional mini-games.
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