What’s fun for the whole family? Why it’s the puppy that is filled with slime - “Biri Biri Kaze Hiki Wanko,” (”shocking sick puppy”), the dog filled with snot and vomit, that’s what!
This fun-filled little game is being released by Bandai subsidiary Mega House which will commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of toy slime… with a toy pooch that’s vomiting. Ain’t it just keen?
The name of the game is similar to Milton Bradley’s Operation, but instead of non-gore-filled inner-body parts you have to deal with green slime:
“the toy puppy, who has caught a cold, drools a concoction of slime and plastic germs. Players must extract these germs using the tweezers without letting the metal part touch the slime, an act which produces a buzzing shock. The player who collects the most germs wins. Play continues by loading the mess into a compartment in the dog’s head.”
As you can see from the picture to the left, it was quite the event. Lots of blood, guts, gore and Elder God Lov’n. Fun times indeed.
We hit the Friday bus tour which took us to the Scare Factory, which is the FX company who host the History Chanel’s Surviving History. Then it was off to local club BoMA for some spooky-fun-time with the Club Vampire gig, a traveling night club, from The Terrorwithin.
Saturday night was the The IAHA Masquerade Party, which was monster-filled - just the way ZMP likes it.
Anywho, go on and check out the photos from the weekend. We’re just going to continue recuperating here at the ZMP labs.
1up has a pretty good interview with Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II lead game designer Jonny Ebbert and producer Mark Noseworthy.
Best line in the interview is from Noseworthy - “It’s 300 in space.” My guess it’ll be a little less filled with oiled Spartans and more like oiled orks. Yeah, you can’t get that picture out of your mind’s eye.
And to wet your appetite, here’s the game trailer.
So, what game is this fine piece of work referring to? If you get the answer right our zombie monkey will spank you. If you get the answer wrong our zombie monkey will spank you. Either way it’s a win-win situation for us.
As we return from our Memorial Day shindig, we would like to ease back into the swing of things with this little lecture on the subject of sex in video games. Now before you all freak out, this is actually a well done, grownup, witty and intelligent look at this… using Flash animation. There’s no nudity, at least without a “censored” block, and in our humble opinion is well worth the watch even if you’re not a gaming geek.
I personally feel that this is safe for work, but just the mention of the word “sex” is a no-no in some establishments. Use your own judgment I guess.
And yet another ARG (Alternate Reality Game) is on the radar, but no one seems to know what it’s for as of yet. We’ll call it Holomove for now since that’s the site of interest right now, and well everyone else is doing the same.
Jim Merithew, writer for Wired’s The Underwire, received a package that contained a paper crane, a memo from the Department of Energy and an empty Emergen-C packet with a sticker with a multicolored chemical model. Same for someone from the ARG forum Unffiction. Once some clues were put together that took you to the above mentioned site. There you find the blog of one Nate Bozeman, who was recently hired as lead software developer for the company. And then that takes you to all sorts of other on-line clues.
Right now there’s no real clues as to what this particular ARG will be for. Some are speculating it’s for a as yet named Microsoft product since the game has referenced two actual employees who’ve Twittered about the game’s main character (Nate Bozeman) and appear to be involved in the game. Another theory is that it could be for the upcoming new season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles or even for any of the four new Fox Sci-Fi shows (Virtuality, Fringe, Dollhouseand Boldly Going Nowhere).
Best bet is to start out with the first discovered site, Holomove, and then move on to the Unffiction forums for clues you can’t figure out on your own.
Happy hunting down the Rabbit Hole. Damn, that sounded really, really wrong.
Contactmusic.com reports that Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski has been signed to adapt hit videogame Bioshock for the screen.
The hit video game is set in dystopian underwater city during the mid-20th century has won many awards and sold millions of units worldwide. It’s considered to have taken the First Person Shooter to a new level in game playing.
Take Two Interactive, the creators of Bioshock, and Universal Studios haven’t given the details of the deal but rumor has it that it could be the biggest for a film adaptation of a videogame, bigger than what Microsoft earned for the rights for Halo ($5 million) in 2005.
Verbinski says of the project:
“I think the whole utopia-gone-wrong story that’s cleverly unveiled to players is just brimming with cinematic potential,”
He goes on to say:
“Of all the games I’ve played, this is one that I felt has a really strong narrative.”
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that this doesn’t fall prey to similar issues that aborted the Halo movie project.
The viral marketing for Hellboy II: The Golden Army is very much an ARG (Alternate Reality Game). A web address - hetfet.org - was seen throughout the movie trailer, which at the time lead to a simple page with a mysterious logo for something called… HETFET (shocker, no). Fast forward to this weekend and now it’s a full-blown site for the fictitious organization Humans for the Ethical Treatment of Fairies, Elves and Trolls. The site is filled with PETA-like content, making for a fun game filled with photos, forums (need to join to access) and another link to add to the list - thesecretdevice.com, which is a simple Flash based puzzle that when solved offers yet another set of links to delve deeper into the game.
Also of note, The Underwire reports that some media outlets received a press release from a mysterious and untraceable Shera Vellotts about a HETFET protest that was held in New York City:
“Dozens of protesters armed with ‘Save The Trolls’ signs disrupted a gathering at New York City’s Jacob Javits Center this past weekend, intent on raising awareness for…HETFET, but after a short time, police arrived on the scenes to disperse them, forcibly removing several of the protestors in the process.”
And yes, there was an actual protest, signs and all.
I also took a look-see at Unfiction.com, a community forum for ARGs, for more information. Seems to be quite a bit, which if you’re a sucker for these games will be very helpful.
So yeah, yet another ARG to sap your time away from you, your family and friends. Guillermo, Guillermo, Guillermo… you clever marketing whore. God bless you.
Look at this ya goons, two fanboy greats rolled into one! LEGOS and Batman!
Following in the steps of LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Batman looks to be just a fun and silly with better game-play. From the sounds of it you get the same options to play hero or villain and the chance to utilize all sorts of gadgets - like the Batarang.
The game will be available to pretty much all platforms and will be released sometime this September.
What do you get when two types of geekdom, electric and gaming, collide? Video game themes played with musical Tesla coils. Very cool but still not as awesome as a Death Ray.
Just uploaded all of the pictures from the 
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