LISTEN: ALICEFFEKT’S ECCO THE DONGEON (8-BIT TECHNO)
Isometric infographic living-room pulsating 8-bit techno from Montreal’s Aliceffekt (MySpace), who has gone on to do much, much more fantastic ‘3D doodles’ and digital art in the intervening two years since this was first uploaded — see it all via Vimeo.
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LITTLEBIGWATCH: SACKBOY GETS BEARDY
I don’t think anyone doubted that last week’s Ico/Shadow of the Colossus blowout would be a tough act to follow, so instead Media Molecule are going seasonal and celebrating the summer solstice with a druidically bearded Sackboy costume (stuffed felt Stonehenge not included), who’ll land on the UK’s PlayStation Network this Thursday, followed by a June 25th appearance in North America, “just after Midsummer’s Day.”
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THE NAME GAME: TRACING THE ETYMOLOGY OF GAME CHARACTER NAMES
Drew ‘kidicarus222‘ Mackie posts this overwhelmingly exhaustive article that traces the hidden origins of about a billion different characters from a wide range of Zelda and Mario main and supporting cast members, to Sonic, Street Fighter, Final Fight and Fantasy, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger and on and on and on.
A sample? Based partly on conjecture, the names of boss Bowser’s children (as above) traced to Plasmatics singer Wendy O. Williams, Iggy Pop, Roy Orbison, Motörhead’s Lemmy, Ludwig von Beethoven, Morton Downey Jr., Larry King, with a followup Super Mario World boss unmistakably recognizable: Reznor. [via, again, Tiff]
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ONE SHOT: THE LITTLEST BIG BILLBOARD IN UNION SQUARE
Tony ‘OLLETSOC‘ Costello discovers the best little/big ad campaign we never knew existed in the heart of NYC’s Union Square park.
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WELL SUITED, WELL LIT: FIRST4FIGURES’ LTD. ED. PHAZON SUIT SAMUS
The latest in Offworld’s attempts to keep your desk as littered with plastic as mine: First4Figure’s Phazon Suit Samus, the latest in First’s officially licensed Nintendo (and THQ and Sega and Tecmo and Ubisoft) lineup.
Riddled with LEDs and, no joke, an “internal IC chip [that] allows for the lights to fade out slowly” when you settle in for bed, it’s as deluxe and pricey as you might expect: the limited run of 1500 comes with a tag of $225, but is ideal for the figure freak that has everything, including First’s four other Samus figures (on top of her Gunship and Metroid Prime Hunters‘ Trace). [via Tomopop]
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BULBA-SORE: JUSTIN WHITE’S BUSTED UP POKéMON
Also spotted at Justin ‘jublin‘ White’s portfolio site via his ‘Game Over’ shirt: this series of ‘Busted Up Pokémon.’ Let’s face it, dress it however you’d like, but over the past decade our beloved pets have taken nothing short of a straight-up drubbing millions of times. White’s just showing the truth behind the mask. ‘Fainted’, indeed.
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FREE ADVICE: DEV.MAG’S INDIE-FOCUSED ZERO BUDGET MARKETING GUIDE
South Africa’s Dev.Mag put together a genuinely quite decent beginner’s guide for indie devs looking to market themselves and their games on no budget. It hews pretty close to Kyle Gabler and Phil Fish’s talk from this year’s Indie Games Summit (and in fact double-links Offworld’s coverage of said talk), but also rounds up more good advice from Edmund McMillen, Zeno Clash‘s ACE Team, and Dejobaan’s Rohit Shenoy, amongst others (and is notable for the smouldering-est photo of Gabler I’ve ever seen). [via IndieGames]
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ONE SHOT: THE MENACING MUNDANITY OF SPOTTING AN APERTURE SCIENCE VAN
Apparently spotted on the road by Patrik ‘voxar‘ Sjöberg, this van innocuously marked with the logo of Aperture Laboratories — the Black Mesa rival where the events of Valve’s Portal take place — has to be nothing more than a fan tribute.. right? I mean, right? [via Tristan Mahr]
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T-SHIRT: THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM RETIREMENT VILLAGE
Justin ‘jublin‘ White imagines the place all the washed-up game stars go to wait around for death in his ‘Game Over’ shirt for Fuzzy Ink. [via Mike]
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