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GamerBytes - @E3 - Icarian Screenshots, Trailer
I was a big fan of the combination of platforming and pointer based puzzle solving in Lost Winds so this new WiiWare game looks really good to me. If Nintendo had announced this as the new Kid Icarus game that has been rumored for so long I would have been satisfied.
Excellent news: 2009 IGF Grand Prize Winner Blueberry Garden will be released on Steam on June 8th! I didn’t expect it to come out so soon.
It looks weird and interesting and I have no idea what to expect from it, and thus I’m totally excited about playing it.
E309: Does Beatles: Rock Band have the most fantastically surreal game intro of all time? - Offworld
Wow! Harmonix really knows how to do these things up right.
Probably one of the most interesting E3 announcements to me. I’ve heard of biofeedback sensors being used for software/games before, but this is Nintendo we’re talking about. I can’t wait to see what they do with it.
Good interview. I particularly like Chen’s idea of the adult entertainment “color wheel” of various combinations of intellectual, social, and emotional interactions.
I also totally agree with him about how playing online games limits you to a very narrow subset of human communication, and that it would be good to see a wider range, but as he mentions you can get that wider range by playing card or board games in person. I think you can even get that wider range by playing multiplayer video games in person. I know that for me personally playing five player Dungeon Explorer on Wii with friends has been one of my favorite recent gaming experiences.
Oh man, I hope this is true.
Project Trico HD - PlayStation LifeStyle (via PlayStationLifeStyle)
First footage of Team Ico’s next game.
It seems like the game will be a interesting mix of Ico’s companionship and Shadow of the Colossus’s climbing on giant creatures, as this game looks to have you befriending a giant griffin puppy thing that helps you get your adventure on.
Last year at CES Ars tried a demo by a company called 3DV that was essentially a webcam that used infrared technology to detect both motion and depth and reportedly worked extremely well.
Rumor has it that Microsoft bought them, and other recent rumors speculate that Microsoft is going to announce a peripheral at E3 this year that lets players control games with only their bodies. Coincidence? Maybe, but it’s interesting stuff either way.
The next PixelJunk game looks really cool. Very nice liquid water/lava simulations and destructible enviroments. They are having a contest to come up with the name for the game, so if a cool name pops into your head while watching the trailer you should go enter:
Oh wow, this is going to have some interesting results.
