Today on Offworld

By at 4:45 pm Tuesday, Dec 9

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Today on Offworld, we watched the new Arkham Asylym game trailer, which made us long for Batman in BioShock's Rapture, found out Disney games filter obscenities via a locally stored copy of puerile Urbandictionary.com definitions -- as a plain text file, and played the new LucasArts-esque Strong Bad game: Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque. We also saw a delicious looking version of Katamari Damacy, found a new game based on your grandmother's favorite Love Is... comics duly disquieting, saw retro Mario and Duck Hunt remakes in EA's Boom Blox, heard about Sony's lawyers going after data-scraping LittleBigPlanet social site Sackbook, and pieced together desire for a Tetris bracelet. Finally, we heard that Eskil Steenberg's unbelievably gorgeous painterly MMO Love was nearing alpha, considered the irony of a game blocked from store shelves by Nintendo about to make a new appearance on the DS, heard about how Dune II took inspiration from the Mac desktop, and, most amazingly, saw a new LittleBigPlanet user created level that lets people play a clockwork and magic game of Reversi.

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Brandon Boyer

Just trying to live a wild, pure, simple life.

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