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8-Bit Left 4 Dead De-Make Arrives In January
2:40PM Owen Good | Here I thought all the flashing corpses meant we were watching the Australian version of Left 4 Dead. I kid, Luke! I kid!!! No, this is a bona fide playable 8-bit “demake” of L4D, available soon for PC. More »
Culture
Retro Meets Rap In Pato Pooh’s “Follow Me”
7:20AM Mike Fahey | Swedish hip hop artist Pato Pooh leaves no 8-bit game untouched in this amazing video for his latest track “Follow Me”. More »
Features
The Making Of Wrestle Jam: The Wrestler’s Unsung Hero
4:30AM Michael McWhertor | If you’ve seen Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning film The Wrestler, you’re likely aware that it features one of the smartest and most poignant, albeit brief, video game cameos in recent film. More »
Culture
D-Pad Hero Brings Guitar Hero (Unofficially) To NES
7:00AM Michael McWhertor | Add another fan-made Guitar Hero-inspired creation to the pile! While the Commodore 64 version may have followed the path set by the Harmonix-developed music game more closely, D-Pad Hero drops guitar controllers altogether. More »
8-Bit Jesus: The Second Coming Of The First Album
10:00AM Michael McWhertor | After teasing us with half of the tracks for his holiday themed, carol filled chiptunes release 8-Bit Jesus, blip-master Doctor Octoroc drops the whole damn thing on us. You can download (and donate!) right now. More »
8-Bit Jesus Blips Up Your Holidays
12:40PM Michael McWhertor | Chiptunes artiste Doctor Octoroc has assembled nine MP3s filled with Christmas joy, each packed with retro 8-bitty goodness. With titles like “Ryu the Red Nosed Ninja” and “Super Jingle Bros.”, how can you resist? More »
Boom Blox Does 8-Bit
6:20AM Stuart Houghton | LittleBigPlanet may be the stunt-modder’s level design palette of choice these days, with some truly spectacular creations, but its not the only game in town. Speilbergian Wii favourite Boom Blox comes with a nifty level editor too, and someone has spent a lot of time waggling that WiiMote to create Boom Bloxified recreations of 8-bit classic including Galaga, Duck Hunt, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. 8 Bit Games Recreated in Boom Blox [GoNintendo] More »
Nestography, Post Secret Gone 8-Bit
7:40AM Mark Wilson | Adam Mathes’ Nestography is not a Post Secret clone—gamers aren’t writing postage stamping dirty skeletons from their closets onto distressed Nintendo sprites—but the site is every bit as guilty-good in that “reading this is very important and deep” sort of way. I’m pretty sure that if you put any picture on a black backdrop with one randomly generated sentence beneath it, you’ll rock this feeble writer’s mind for hours on end. Nestography [via GayGamer] More »
Video Game Inspired Mural: Now With Unicorns!
10:00AM Flynn De Marco | Whilst trudging through the rainy streets of San Francisco looking for an apartment, I decided to stroll down Clarion Alley in the Mission. I always like Clarion. It was a bit skeevy but people had decorated the whole thing with murals and it was always fun to head down there and have a little solitary street art time. Imagine my surprise when I turned the corner and the alley, still completely janky, was filled with people checking out the art. Seven years really changes things apparently. But, as I continued down I happened to see these two great video game inspired murals painted on two side by side garage doors. Personally, I prefer the first to the second (which you can see after the jump). It really makes me want to know when someone is going to make the shooting rainbow unicorns game. More »
