GHOSTWIRE: AUGMENTED REALITY GAME PREPPED AS DSI DOWNLOADABLE
While it may not be the full blown environmentally-aware augmented reality game we’ve been promised for years now, Swedish studio A Different Game’s Ghostwire — just announced as in development for the DSi’s downloadable DSiWare service — is a fine step in the right direction.
Originally created for, as above, Nokia mobiles, A Different Game describes Ghostwire as a “collection and adventure game” that lets players use the camera, microphone, and on-screen frequency modulator to help unearth (un-aether?) spirits around you, who each have unique riddles to solve to bring their wandering souls to final peace.
The DSi version mockup, as above, includes a number of cute updates, most notably the use of its player-facing internal camera to catch yourself in the frightened act. A Different Game’s official site has more info and video of the award winning mobile version.
Ghostwire [A Different Game]
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ONE SHOT: LITTLEBIGPLANET ENCOUNTERS A TROUSER MALFUNCTION
Happy I caught this when I did, as it’s now been stricken from the record: Media Molecule’s latest 2000AD crossover reveal was plagued by the dreaded trouser malfunction early this morning, but the Sack-Rogue Trooper has since been restored with pants stitched tight in place.
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ONE SHOT: RAY FENWICK’S SECRET CODES
Ray Fenwick reveals that all my troubles were apparently just a slip of the Konami Code. [via Infinite Lives]
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ONE SHOT: THE EVOLUTION OF BIOSHOCK 2’S BIG SISTERS
Early concepts for BioShock 2‘s Big Sister by Colin Fix (and additional Little Sister concepts by wife Annie Fix). [via Super Punch]
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LISTEN: ENSO, NO CARRIER, ANIMAL STYLE’S LATEST PULSEWAVE NES FLIER
The latest NES flier (rom link) for The Tank’s May 30th Pulsewave show, which will feature performances by minusbaby, Lutin, and Adams/Stern, and visuals by JYK, noteNdo and Paris. As usual, Enso provides the 8-bit cinematics, accompanied by chip musician Joey ‘Animal Style‘ Mariano [MySpace].
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LIFE ON MARS: NOBY NOBY GIRL CONTINUES HER GALACTIC CRAWL
I did my damndest to capture Noby Noby GIRL’s triumphant march to Mars via in-game video (you only get the one chance to see the victory-wrap), but my attempts were stymied by the video capability not going live until you actually exit your house.
Accept, then, this commemorative photo above as proof of Noby‘s ongoing popularity, even if Takahashi and co. are pulling out every trick in the book to lessen the dead time between planets, from the upcoming iPhone version, to the SynchroBOY trick which lets single players control multiple boys at a time, to the recent Lucky Week promotion, which saw submitted lengths randomly given various multipliers, which happened to be the final straw that pushed GIRL to her goal.
So what’s life actually like on the red planet? Much the same, so far, though with the addition of new martian inhabitants, obviously, and, more intriguingly, the super-sized royalty unlocked when we reached the moon now making the rounds (on my back, as above).
I wolfram’d (are we allowed to say that yet?) the distance from Mars to Jupiter, GIRL’s next step, which gave me an AU distance over double that from Earth to Mars, meaning, I suppose, that we should expect — barring more of Namco’s divine intervention — at least another 6-7 months before we see the Jovian giant even starting to come into view.
o–o [Namco]
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THE DOGPILE: SIX FULL MINUTES OF MUSCLE MARCH MADNESS
With Namco’s new still-buzzing import oddity Muscle March having just been released to WiiWare in Japan, the first full gameplay video has just been ripped from Nico Nico Douga to YouTube, shown above.
It’s basically exactly what you were expecting (and, with the later-stage posing fakeouts, actually looks fairly challenging), and is all the more glorious for it.
Muscle March [Namco]
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PARTY MONSTER: ROCKSTAR ANNOUNCE NEW GTA IV EPISODE, BALLAD OF GAY TONY
I’m reporting this one straight down the middle: Rockstar have sent word that the second Xbox 360 exclusive episode will shift Liberty City’s perspective from bikers (as with the original Lost and the Damned episode) to balladeers, with the “fall” release of The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Rockstar say this episode will see players take the role of “Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka ‘Gay Tony’),” taking on a “struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price.”
As a side note, for the the ragtag handful of people that don’t already own the original Grand Theft Auto, both episodes will be combined on a retail disc at release called Episodes from Liberty City, which won’t require the original game to complete.
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MOTHER MERCHANDISERS TURN TO METAL GEAR T-SHIRTS, BUTTONS, BAGS
Oft-mentioned Earthbound/Mother merchandising clearinghouse Fangamer — the company behind the fantastic fan-made Mother 3 guidebook — has just made a surprising announcement: they’ve switched, erm, gears, and added a new game to their merch lineup, Metal Gear Solid.
And, unsurprisingly, it shows all the same attention to detail and phenomenal quality as their Mother merch: currently up for pre-order is an insignia T-shirt for the Big Boss led Les Enfants Terribles project, a shoulderbag emblazoned with a FOXHOUND patch, and a button set of Shadow Moses, Cyborg Ninja, etc. designs.
Head over to their Metal Gear subsite for more information on everything, and to place your pre-order before June 6th and secure one of their custom-stamped dog tags.
Les Enfants Terribles [Fangamer]
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LITTLE MONSTERS: CRAYON PHYSICS DEV’S CREATURE CREATOR PROTOTYPE
The lead-up to the release of Crayon Physics Deluxe has kept creator Petri Purho out, for the most part, of his years-long rhythm of creating a steady stream of new game prototypes, but that, happily, is apparently now over.
Above, the first look at his latest prototype, about which nothing is known, and from which there’s not much to glean, other than to notice that his ‘creatures’ are all being procedurally generated from a common set of facial and bodily elements.
To what end? I can’t wait to find out.
Kloonigames home [Petri Purho]
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