This one almost ended up as a Hi-Fi Pizza of the Apocalypse, but it was just too awesome for that. Seriously, there have been a bajillion dinosaur shooter games and a bajillion bazillion WWII FPS games... But until now, there's never been a WWII FPS dinosaur game! America may have the bomb, but the axis powers have fascist dinosaurs!
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Seasons is an enchanting little flash thing (you can't quite call it a game) where you steer Thomas - a sort of egg-man on a unicycle - through various pastoral, surreal scenes. Don't hurry through the various environments. It's worth it to take your time pedaling around and seeing what Thomas discovers.
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Pretty sweet trailer for the Battlestar Galactica online game... Although I'm still not sure how this will work as an online game that thousands of people will play. I mean, the show was claustrophobic by design, with the surviving remnants of humanity all crammed into little shuttles and garbage scows and so on. They didn't meet a lot of exotic aliens or explore cool planets or anything. To accurately reflect the show, the game would have to be mostly people arguing in cramped corridors, punctuated by occasional space battles and the odd glimpse of sexy Cylon lady butt.
Until May 24th, Valve is offering free downloads of Portal, one of the most acclaimed games in years. Hurry, before they run out of cake!
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Inspired by this apocalyptic moment from an old Daniel Clowes Eightball comic, Hi-Fi Pizza of the Apocalypse is a Monsters and Rockets feature where we chronicle the Hollywood rehashes, recyclings and recombinings that serve as ominous portents of the End Times.
We already knew that multi-million dollar motion pictures were in the works based on the 1980s proto-games Joust and Asteroids. Now comes word that Space Invaders and Missile Command movies are also in the works. I don't care how much of an 8-bit fanatic you are, Space Invaders and Missile Command were just simple, ugly-ass games without any actual plots to base movies on. Seriously, Space Invaders is no more of a "story" than tic-tac-toe is! (If you're listening, Hollywood, I've got this script you should take a look at, about a heroic band of X's who battle against the repressive forces of the O's.)
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La Linea was a series of weird cartoons that originated in Italy and became popular all over the world. In America they never quite caught on the same way, but they are fondly remembered by Gen-X'ers today from being featured on the 1980s kids show, The Great Space Coaster. (These cartoons were carefully selected to eliminate the more adult material. Some of La Linea's cartoons can get pretty raunchy.)
Animator Patrick Boivin has made an impressive, interactive La Linea cartoon, seen above. Now you can decide the indignities that will befall this strange little gibbering cartoon man. (Note that some of the paths you choose will lead to material that is not safe for work.)
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Daymare Town is an online point-and-click game with a nicely quirky look and tone. It feels less like a Myst clone than a short adventure you take within the pages of an artist's sketchbook, with the 3D graphics of most point-and-clicks replaced by scratchy little cartoon scenes. But just because the game has such a charmingly simple look, don't assume that the puzzles are easy to beat!
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Bank Run (Trailer) from Bank Run on Vimeo.
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