Recently on Offworld

By Brandon Boyer at 8:49 am Tuesday, Mar 3

Recently on Offworld we took the first look at the latest from Minotaur China Shop creators Flashbang, with their underwater squid flagellator Blush (above), saw a community effort to bring classic Konami shooter Contra to LittleBigPlanet, and watched the first public video footage of WiiWare adventure Night Game, from the creator of freeware hit Knytt Stories. We also heard first details of a SXSW-related chiptune showcase, saw Spore open an API to developers and get a creature-builder university, danced to a fantastic Space Invaders mash-up music video, noted our favorite new LittleBigPlanet costumes, and saw the first synth for DIY handheld game kit Meggy Jr RGB. We also saw vacation snaps of Mario in rock-formation, coveted a Phoenix Wright coffee mug, saw how accurately a 1982 feature predicted the games of today, folded a new papercraft arcade, played a new literally and unabashedly linear RPG, mourned the loss of an initiative to bring Xbox Live functionality to the iPhone, and got the first details of an upcoming PopCap game that pits plants versus zombies.