INSIDE THE BLACK BOX: SKATE 2 TEAM’S TOP 10 USER VIDEOS
I don’t have much to add to this highlight reel of Skate 2 dev EA Black Box’s favorite user-created videos, other than it works better with the sound turned down, the number one video is as amazing as it ever was, and I’ve been neglecting to return to this game for far too long.
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SOUNDS BRüTAL: TIM SCHAFER SOLVES A RUBIK’S CUBE TO BRüTAL LEGEND’S SOUNDTRACK
Not the soundtrack itself, mind, but Double Fine music director Emily Ridgway reading the hundred-plus list of included songs representing Brütal Legend‘s who’s-who of heavy metal, from 3 Inches of Blood to Wrath of Killenstein.
My favorite addition? Two tracks from Anvil, who, if you’ve seen the recently released documentary (and if you haven’t, do so soon), you know are basically just about the nicest people on earth and who entirely deserve to have a few extra minutes to shine here.
The entire track list is included behind the jump.
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ONE SHOT: THE PITT, INFECTED
Even before the upcoming episode-linking Crash Course DLC was announced, Left 4 Dead fanatics were hard at work piecing together the game’s deeper underlying story we were all too frantically struggling to survive to notice.
Unearthed: the game’s location (Pennsylvania, notably No Mercy’s Philadelphia and Dead Air’s Pittsburgh, making it the second Wasteland of a city that year), the map that draws a solid line between each episode (above), and screenshots and dialogue of the half-infected news-chopper pilot who we presumably will see more of in Crash Course proper. [via Tom]
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MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE: THE CASE OF GUITAR HERO’S MISSING EFFECTS PEDAL
Little known factoid: Harmonix had always intended to include a packed-in pedal with their very first version of PlayStation 2’s Guitar Hero, but were denied by an obscure Sony clause that limited each game’s number of peripherals to just one (the one, in this case, being the guitar itself).
Four years later, and finally — I have suddenly learned via FakePlasticRock — Mad Catz has filled the void with an Electro-Harmonix (no relation) branded Rock Band 2 version which may be the first third-party accessory I purchase in as long as I can remember (though FPR also notes that, with an extension cord, your standard-issue Rock Band drum pedal works in a pinch [!]).
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ONE SHOT: FREE-RUNNING THROUGH FALLOUT
And one more entirely unrelated postcard from Duncan Harris’s Wasteland, featuring an unexpected visitor.
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DUST, AN ELYSIAN TAIL: WHY 2D STILL MATTERS IN 2009
Dean Dodrill’s Dust: An Elysian Tail — in development for Microsoft’s Dream Build Play XNA Game Studio contest (which closes submissions today) — has learned its 2D brawler lessons well, and is easily one of the most techno/visually stunning showings to come out of a single-man studio (Dodrill’s done “programming, writing, artwork, and sound effects/voices”, and left only the music to friends).
See his site for updates on the game, and on the related film version he’s working on as well. [via Christian Nutt]
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ONE SHOT: FLASH BURN IN MOTHERSHIP ZETA
Not to be outdone by Alex Wiltshire’s recent chroma-smeared set of Wipeout HD shots, Duncan Harris ups the photo-pugilism by again taking to Fallout 3‘s Wasteland — this time its newly released Mothership Zeta DLC — and returning with this abstracted “vulgar display of firepower“.
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EX-HEX: BACKBONE DETAIL TURN-BASED STRATEGY REMAKE MILITARY MADNESS: NECTARIS
Though the game is eventually due on WiiWare and Xbox Live Arcade as well, at the PlayStation.Blog, Backbone designer Kyle Vincent Tunison details the forthcoming remake of Hudson’s original cult-hit TurboGrafx-16 hex-strategy game Military Madness, due at an as-yet unspecified date later this year.
Not to be confused with Nectaris: Military Madness (the original PlayStation remake [which included some 130+ maps]), Military Madness: Nectaris is a note-for-note rebuild of the 16-bit original — with the obvious graphical caveat and rebuilt AI — and will contain an additional ten maps designed specifically for its online/local multiplayer, with new upgradable vehicle and squads.
Above is the original trailer for the game: ignore the platform branding, the game is said to be identical for all three downloadable outlets, bar some multiplayer maps for the WiiWare version. For more background on the series and its 20 year history across a wide variety of platforms, see this dedicated fan site.
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CRASH COURSE: VALVE ANNOUNCE NEW DOWNLOADABLE LEFT 4 DEAD CAMPAIGN
Valve has just announced the latest round of DLC set for the original Left 4 Dead with Crash Course, a new campaign due in September that will “bridge the gap between the end of the No Mercy campaign and the beginning of Death Toll” — with “new locations, new dialogue from the original cast, and an explosive finale.”
Valve says that while the campaign will work in both co-op and survival mode, “the primary goal of “Crash” is to deliver a complete Versus mode experience in just 30 minutes, resulting in a streamlined version of the game’s existing Versus campaigns,” and will include “a recharge timer for infected teammates… and item spawn behavior has changed for more balanced gameplay.”
The new campaign will be available as a free update for PC players, and will cost 560 Points for Xbox 360 users.
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FAKE PLASTIC MESS: THE OFFICIAL HARMONIX INSTRUMENT COMPATIBILITY LIST
Somebody had to do it, I guess it may as well have been Harmonix themselves: the official Rock Band site has just updated with this new pan-console compatibility list that lets you know which of the gajillion technicolor instruments piling up maddeningly in your bed/living-room over the past five years will work with which games. Mentioned here mostly because it’s really, really time for me to cull the lot.
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