Recently on Offworld

Recently on Offworld we saw Kelly 'kellbot' Farrell's latest game-hack creation: a 'life-size' Katamari Damacy trackball controller (above) that lets you play the game it really probably always should have been played.

We also heard that all three of Retro Studios' Metroid Prime games for both GameCube and Wii will be remade with full Wii controls and repackaged on a single Wii disc in August, looked at the 1-bit Mac OS 1 aesthetic of upcoming indie game Beard Snatchers, 1954, the fantastic 50s comic book style aesthetic of upcoming iPhone rhythm game Young Villain Academy, and the first iPhone video of node-hacking shooter Circuit Strike.One.

Finally, we traded our latest TV/movie picks for the best of Xbox 360-streaming Netflix, found a new blog devoted to video game typography, read a book with 22 essays on Bioshock, Ico, Mario, Portal, Zelda and more, and had a slew of wonderful 'one shot's: Subversion's neo-future laserlight pyramids, Lauren Gregg's arcade-addicted nerdimal, the soulless gaze of the NES R.O.B. Army, and Ashley Wood's Metal Gear Solid comic art.