April 2010
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Six years later, Motocross Challenge finally... →
Those of you who followed us during the pre-Tiny Cartridge days, back when we used to push weight at DS Fanboy, might remember Motocross Challenge, and Excitebike-style 2D racing game that just couldn’t catch a break.
Montreal developer DHG Games initially created the game for a commercial GBA release but eventually gave it out as homebrew after losing its publishing deal. Two years...
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Tiny Preview: Make Songs Monkey Band (in which...
When I started up Make Songs Monkey Band for the first time, a prompt appeared and invited me to enter Japanese text. I scrawled out my name in Katakana. Moments later, three monkeys took the stage and crooned a lovely song about my name. I didn’t understand the words coming out my DSi’s speakers, but I knew I this was for me.
Released this week in Japan for 800 Points, Monkey...
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Nullsleep providing your summer jams on Collapsed... →
It’s rare that I get to post event news that personally benefits me, so I’m happy to report this: chiptune legend Nullsleep is embarking on a US tour this summer with stops in: Portland, SF, LA, Austin (!), Nashville, NYC, and Philadelphia.
He’ll be accompanied by Starscream on many of the dates, with other artists joining for each show. And for those of you even more...
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Fort90, Cream Wolf, and Glow Artisan dev at NYC's... →
In what sounds like a must-attend event for people in New York, a Babycastles event at The Silent Barn will feature three rad game-related presentations.
Matt “Fort90” Hawkins will talk about Fort90Zine (the latest issue of which features work by my favorite writer); and chiptunes artist/Graffiti Monster Mark Denardo will discuss Cream Wolf, the Adult Swim game about feeding ice...
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“You can’t just walk in to Luida’s Bar and order. It’s not the sort of place you...”
– Chris Kohler visits the Dragon Quest IX-themed Luida’s Bar, which sounds a lot more involved than I thought. “Luida” and a hostess both went around chatting with all the patrons, and a “preview item” from an upcoming menu refresh was handed out to everyone.
It kinda...
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NSFW game concept: Formula Blood
While writing up an article about art prints for sale from Spicy Horse, the developer behind the American McGee’s Alice sequel, I came across this mind-blowing Formula Blood concept poster by Portuguese artist Luis Melo. There’s some undead breasts in the pic, though, so I tucked the full image after the break.
Melo dreamed up Formula Blood as “an imaginary movie or 8-bit...
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Dylan Cuthbert talks X-Scape (the game, not the... →
If you’d like to read about the lovely-looking X-Scape, or Q-Games, or other things with single consonants followed by hyphens and five additional letters, check out my Joystiq interview with Q-Games’ Dylan Cuthbert and Kazushi Maeta, and NCL’s Kazuyuki Gofuku.
And yes, I totally asked whether or not “Totaka’s Song” would be in the game — to which...
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Kapcon's Monkey Hunter →
With Monster Hunter Tri now out, I’d like to point you to an amusing parody of the “MMORPG-lite” dreamt up by popular anime series Gintama. In the episode I linked above, the show’s characters are chasing after aliens that have escaped into the game world of Kapcon’s Monkey Hunter (fast forward to 12:40 for the fun stuff).
Even if you don’t know anything...
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“Honestly, the WiiWare version isn’t gimped at all. It is exactly what it was...”
– Team Meat’s Tommy Refenes, in the same interview where he reveals Super Meat Boy’s WiiWare ediiton will not include the “competitive vs modes” or “beefy co-op” initially promised when the game was announced for the download service last year. Presumably, the XBLA...
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“Beyond the White Storm” from Otomedius. HG101 has the full, kind of weird, story on this song: it’s a chippy arrangement of a song from Gradius Gaiden, released as DLC for the Xbox 360 shmup. Apparently Konami released alternate DLC soundtracks for the game, that swapped out the existing music for classic Konami music rearranged by one of the company’s star...
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Monkey Band Developer's History of Singing-Animal... →
When I wrote about Tsukutte Uta Saru Band (Make Songs Monkey Band), I considered comparing it to Kuma Uta, the PS2 game about a polar bear who sings enka music, because they’re both games about animals singing user-created music with synthesized vocals. I wish I had actually mentioned that, because it would have made me seem really savvy — Andriasang noted that muu muu, the developer...
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WatchGerman commercial for English Training. It’s like the German version of the famous (at least in our office) fast food commercial for Motto Eigo Zuke, except for Germany and it sorta makes fun of U.S. airport security measures!
See also: Touch: Man to Man
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Next week's amazing Japanese DSiWare: Monkey...
Oh man, Japan’s DSi Shop is going to be hell of awesome last week, after a few weeks of relatively uninteresting releases. Here’s the notable stuff just coming out next week:
Ahh, Nostalgic Shooting Watch, which we already covered last week (yay).
Atelier Deco La Doll: Gothic, a game in which you get to dress up virtual dolls in a goth-loli style. Perfect for play in your...
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DSiWare guide for the next two months
With Sin & Punishment: Star Successor delayed to June 27th and Metroid: Other M not shipping until August 31st, some of you might be shopping around for other games to play until then. Fortunately, the DSiWare platform has a lot of new releases coming up to keep you entertained for the next two months — one of them is even free!
For your convenience, we put together a quick guide...
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Photo tour through Nintendo of America's new...
After a year and a half of construction, Nintendo of America’s new building complex in Redmond is finally ready to open. The 275,250 sq. ft. structure not only houses the headquarters’ offices, but offers an auditorium, a cafeteria, an exercise facility, and even a roof garden.
We have more than a dozen photos from Nintendo’s new building that will make you feel like...
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NSFW: Lost ladies of Soap Panic
The nerds among you who love unlicensed NES games might recognize Soap Panic as the Japanese version of Bubble Bath Babes, one of three racy (and rare) Panesian releases featuring disrobed 8-bit ladies.
If you were pervy enough to seriously research the titles, reading articles like, say, this in-depth piece at NES Player, you’ll know that while both Soap Panic and Bubble Bath Babes...
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1UP plays Bio Force Ape for you →
In an event so rare that its value can’t be expressed in monies, 1UP will broadcast gameplay of absolutely real NES game Bio Force Ape during its “Game Night” event. “It was the subject of one of the greatest hoaxes in internet history,” Frank Cifaldi said in the announcement, “is weird as hell, and is considered something of a holy grail amongst retro gaming...
