Guitar Hero goes fitness guru, invasion of the pixel people, & bicycling in virtual reality.
Pixel personages, why using gym equipment after metal-heads is no fun, war correspondents in Eve, the dangers of bicycling in virtual reality, Teddy Ruxpin gets an iPhone, “This department store is gonna be your grave!” and creep shows!
With the aid of the Kinect, artist Luke Jerram has created a pixelated (or voxelated?) sculpture of a young girl named Maya. Dude is totally thinking: I’ve been playing too much BioShock.
Guitar Hero masterminds Kai and Charles Huang have founded an interactive fitness studio. Seems like a departure at first, but have you ever Bowflexed to Van Halen? Pure bliss!
An intergalactic showdown of epic proportions just transpired on a computer server. But the real news is The Verge has an Eve Online “war correspondent.” Our generation’s Kosovo, folks.
At this point shouldn’t you just get a part-time job as a paper boy?
In other news, Siri + teddy bear = nightmares.
Over at Nintendo’s official Earthbound page, Shigesato Itoi (creator of Earthbound and Japanese celebrity that has no equivalant in the States) muses on what Earthbound means to him:
It was like a group of children taking dolls from a toy chest.
Old dishes no longer used in the kitchen.
Nuts and bolts found inside a toolbox.
Little flowers and leaves from the backyard.
And they were all laid down on the carpet with everybody singing made-up songs.
Ready to talk all day about that world they just made.
That, I think was how Earthbound was made.
Tangiers is Dali meets Lynch meets Thief:
Cheers!
