ONE SHOT: CHRONO TRIGGER’S MOMENT OF ZEAL

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7.21.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Illustrator Steph Laberis — the same as behind my favorite retro-ad-art sticker of Stay Puft that just landed in LittleBigPlanet — creates this scene from Chrono Trigger, saying “I had always imagined that when the Chrono Crew first arrived in Zeal that there was a moment of respite and celebration; to have come from the harsh dark ages to a temperate, floating paradise,” and adding, “I can’t tell you what wonderful project this was done for – yet – but come August 11th, you’ll know!”

Kloonigames’ Petri Purho gives us a time-lapsed look into the development of his Post I.T. Shooter, and proves that even under the seven-day-stress that the Experimental Gameplay Project imposes, there’s always, always still time for Team Fortress and Spelunky.

ONE SHOT: NO MORE HEROES, NO MORE POLYS

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7.21.2009

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Japanese illustrator Yoshii goes all Dotter Dotter and gives us Travis Touchdown in 3D 2D. [via Tiny Cartridge]

A fast update with the more or less kind of cringe-worthy antics of puppet monkey and puppet rooster, as Namco intros the fact that their PS3 Katamari Damacy collection — Katamari Tribute — will be playable at the upcoming ComicCon, via the PlayStation.Blog. Try to just focus on the background music.

Just revealed by Sega (without much further exposition): the first look at the Wii Fit Balance Board-enabled version of Super Monkey Ball, Step & Roll, due for an “early 2010” release.

ONE SHOT: COMMANDER VIDEO’S GLITCH RITUAL

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7.21.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Ty ‘Glitch Ritual‘ Dunitz takes Bit.Trip series mascot Commander Video in just about the un-8-bittiest direction imaginable.

Harmonix updates with the latest look at the songs and symbolic eras coming to Beatles: Rock Band, and sends on the latest names and locations of newly unveiled featured tracks:

Twist And Shout / Cavern Club
Do You Want To Know A Secret / Cavern Club
Can’t Buy Me Love / Ed Sullivan Theater
I Wanna Be Your Man / Ed Sullivan Theater
Eight Days A Week / Shea Stadium
Paperback Writer / Budokan
And Your Bird Can Sing / Budokan
Yellow Submarine / Abbey Road Dreamscape
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band* / Abbey Road Dreamscape
With a Little Help from My Friends* / Abbey Road Dreamscape
Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows / Abbey Road Dreamscape
Revolution / Abbey Road Dreamscape
Birthday / Abbey Road Dreamscape
Dig A Pony / Rooftop Concert
I’ve Got A Feeling / Rooftop Concert

The only problem: my chest is getting even tighter with nervous anticipation as the release date approaches and She Said She Said still hasn’t reared its sad/dead-knowing head, and I’ve already got that tremendously jarring opening riff’s fret-button-pattern memorized in my head, and if I don’t get the chance to act it out for points I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself.

Joe ‘Cymon‘ Larson wants you to know his original ASCIIpOrtal video wasn’t all smoke and inter-spatial/dimensional mirrors, and so has just released this latest look at the progress he’s made since — including new filters for the portal views, which should clarify, a bit, what you’re looking at, and nine more minutes of dizzying text-mode puzzle solving.

T-SHIRT: JUNIOR MASSIVE’S NOT-NECESSARILY-THE-TETRIS

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7.20.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Possibly the most legitimately fashion-conscious T-shirts (as opposed to, you know, like, the usual nerd shirts) featured here since Imperial Junkies’ back in January, Australia’s upstart Junior Massive label offers this Tetris tee for both men and women.

You can tell it’s more about The Look than The Game, because of all the infuriating one/two/three/five block shapes, which I’m sure has more than a few of you squirming in your seats. [via Cool Hunting, via Gus]