ONE SHOT: LEFT 4 (SHAUN OF THE) DEAD
A first-pass rough draft of Shaun’s living room, as modeled by the team behind Left 4 Winchester: a Shaun of the Dead mod for the PC version of Left 4 Dead which, despite some hang-ups, is apparently still on its way.
The current plan is a five-map campaign that’ll take us from Shaun’s Pad, to Mum’s House, to Lizz’s Flat, to the Winchester itself for a final showdown, where the jukebox will, of course, summon the horde. Apart from some obvious metaphorical zombie-differences to be solved, this should be a new all-time favorite mod, provided the team can manage to hold it together.
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LITTLEBIGWATCH: THE RETRO ILLUSTRATED GHOSTBUSTERS STICKER-PACK BLOWOUT
Your last look at the Ghostbusters DLC pack coming this Thursday to LittleBigPlanet, offered here because I mean, really, how wicked is that retro-illo Stay Puft at top left?
And, as a bonus, a closeup and personal view of the extra costumes teased last week, my favorite still the (what we’re now calling) “universal no” ghost.
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FIVE SECOND RULES: 100 TINY ART/GLITCH VIDEOS ON ‘OLD VIDEO GAMES’
Greyscalegorilla’s current “Five Second Project” — in which animators and motion designers are given a couple weeks to create a five second video — is on a theme close to our hearts: “old video games.” The entries, which at last count number up to 100, are collected in this Vimeo channel.
A hundred videos might seem like a lot to go through, but at five seconds each it should take no time at all. If that’s still too ADD for you: a pair of our personal favourites. Above, William J. Meyer’s slightly-longer-than-five-seconds take lends Donkey Kong a helpful hand, and below, Joe Clay’s Super Mario Bros. video also takes a turn for the 3D, but in a crazy glitch-out and “blow the cart” kind of way.
The above is especially enjoyable as a fan of the glitched-out aesthetic, which can also be seen in Brad Chmielewski Old Video Games Data Mosh and Sean McDonald’s wonderfully teasing Get Ready to Play… the Greatest Game Ever.
Five Second Project: Old Video Games [GreyScaleGorilla]
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LISTEN: DA CHIP! VINTAGE GAME SYSTEM COVERS OF DAFT PUNK
By way of French act Je Deviens DJ en 3 Jours — who released a new running-through-the-streets-of-Nice music video a mere two weeks ago — comes a chiptune-powered tribute to fellow French musicians Daft Punk: DA CHIP!
The 11 track compilation, featuring covers by the likes of EvilWezil and Random is perfectly suited for your next lo-fi French electro dance party (as witnessed in JDDE3J’s Aerodynamic cover above). DA CHIP! is provided as a free download with individual bonus tracks available on the site.
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WEEKEND WATCHING: EVEN FURTHER INTO THE NIGHT WITH JASON ROHRER, CHRIS CRAWFORD
I linked a preview version of this earlier in the week, but thanks to commenter ‘littlebugger’ for letting us know that he’d uploaded the full hour-long episode of Passage creator Jason Rohrer and design vet Chris Crawford meeting on arts program Durch die Nacht mit (Into the Night with), which everyone seems to be agreeing is one of the best games design chats they’ve witnessed in a while.
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ONE SHOT: COMMANDER VIDEO, MEAT BOY STYLE
Franchise creators Gaijin Games show off Bit.Trip series mascot Commander Video as he will appear in Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes and Jon McEntee’s indie-cameo-packed Super Meat Boy WiiWare remake.
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BROWSER BATTLE: CAPCOM, GAMETAP BRING STREET FIGHTER II CE TO KONGREGATE
Just launched in celebration of the release of a PC version of Street Fighter IV: a new, browser-based Flash version of Street Fighter II CE, put together by GameTap for Flash portal Kongregate. [via Capcom]
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ONE SHOT: THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE UN-DEAD, IF THE RAIN COMES
Into each (reanimated) life, some rain must fall: Valve show off the first look at “Swamp Fever”, the Left 4 Dead 2 campaign being unveiled at San Diego’s Comic Con, happening later this month.
Presumably, the point they’re trying to hammer home is the claustrophobic environmental effects that inclement weather will bring, and/or that the horde really don’t like getting wet.
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