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Mario-inspired art history shirt of the month: Arcade Expressionism

Okay, two of these in a row is weird, but could still be considered coincidence. After three, though? Selling shirts that are Mario-themed takes on specific artistic movements is now certifiably a thing.
This month’s contender is another Threadless tee, this time submitted by Brock Davis (the guy responsible for this Mario Kart-themed business).

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PAX East announces selection for the Boston Indie Showcase

Next weekend, PAX East debuts in Boston, which is exciting for about fifty different reasons. One of them is the Boston Indie Showcase, displaying a half-dozen indie titles local to the Boston area on the show floor. The coolest part? The showcase exists specifically to support indie start-ups who usually can’t afford booth space – [Read More …]

Exclusive: Anamanaguchi’s Blackout City headed to Rock Band!

The 8-Bit Alliance tour is currently in full swing, and luckily, it stopped off in my hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It was every bit as awesome as you’d expect.
At the last minute (and per Bytejacker reader siriusn’s request), I was able to snag a sweaty, frantic post-show interview with Anamanaguchi frontman Peter Berkman, wherein [Read More …]

4FOURTHS trailer is more than a little amazing

There were a lot of really neat games showcased at Gamma IV last week that those of us who weren’t there knew next to nothing about. 4FOURTHS was one of those games; all that was really known was that it was a 4-player co-op…something. Luckily, an absolutely jaw-dropping trailer was recently released, and it clears [Read More …]

Ed McMillen’s “Team Indie” Portrait from GDC

Ed McMillen posted this great portrait of the indie devs from this year’s Game Developers Conference on his Facebook. Can you spot all your favorite dev heroes?

IGF Awards present Monaco with the Seamus McNally Grand Prize

The IGF Awards at GDC just wrapped up, and man were they something. From Andy Schatz’s excellent acceptance speech(es!) for Monaco to host Erin Robinson saying “As we all know, the bigger your pixels are, the more indie your game is”, tonight’s ceremony was full of genuinely funny, cool moments.
We’ll have the full list of [Read More …]

GDC Day 1 Roundup: PSN gets Joe Danger, Tower Defense gets Twitter, and more!

Sadly, Bytejacker couldn’t make it to GDC this year (more on that this Thursday). Apparently, though, everyone else on the planet was, resulting in a massive influx in game news, both of the downloadable and indie variety. And hey, that’s totally our thing, man. So here’s a list of the relevant GDC stories from the [Read More …]

Spelunky XBLA screenshots! For looking at!

GDC doesn’t technically start until tomorrow, but Derek Yu decided to kick things off early by posting a few minutes ago the first-ever screenshots from Spelunky’s Xbox Live Arcade release! Waagh!!
Check them out below:

Pretty dramatic departure from the pixel art graphics of the original Spelunky, don’t you think?

Bit.Trip Runner gets its first trailer!

I hope you like running, space worms, pixelated prospectors who shoot fireballs, Meat Boy cameos, and Anamanaguchi, because the trailer for Bit.Trip Runner is here, and it contains all of these things.

The 8 most important games of the Pirate Kart II competition

Games are art. No one is debating that anymore. The few stragglers attempting to claim otherwise were finally silenced when flOwer came out last year and won Best Indie Game from Playboy. But it’s important to look at where the movement began. Obviously, it began with the indies, but let’s be specific:
Games became art [Read More …]

The 8-bit Alliance Tour kicks off tomorrow!

Do you like chiptunes? Do you like chiptunes artists?! Do you like chiptunes artists who we interviewed at Blip Festival?!? Then you should probably get psyched for the 8-bit Alliance Tour, one of the biggest US chiptune tours…ever, actually.
Organized (and headlined) by fantastic chip-and-guitar group Anamanaguchi, the tour also features UK 8-bit breakbeat artist Sabrepulse, [Read More …]

Midweek Madness Steam sale means $2 indie games

Steam is doing another one of their Midweek Madness sales, and this week’s bargains are pretty damn excellent. They’ve marked down six $9.99 (and one $4.99) indie titles to two bucks a pop. The games include Space Giraffe, Gridrunner Revolution, Altitude, Super Laser Racer, Galcon Fusion, Bullet Fusion, and (drumroll) Bob Came In Pieces!
Yeah, between [Read More …]

Gravity Hook HD playable in full online!

A year and a half ago, Adam Atomic and Danny Baranowsky worked together on a game for the first time. That game was Gravity Hook, and you know what? We liked it a lot.
So did Adam and Danny, apparently; at the very least, they liked it enough to lovingly craft a badass remake of it. [Read More …]

Joe Danger (finally) has a trailer, and it does not disappoint

I promise, I’m doing everything in my power to stop this from becoming The Joe Danger Blog (presented by Bytejacker). But if Hello Games keeps pumping out the awesome at their current rate…all I’m saying is I can’t promise anything.
The debut trailer for Joe Danger finally hit today, and it is goooooood. Depending on how [Read More …]

WarioWare D.I.Y. to feature cameos by “famous” developers

WarioWare D.I.Y. is conceptually a very exciting game.  Combining the absurd gameplay and fast pace of a WarioWare title with the anything-is-possible user-generated draw of something like Little Big Planet, it seems like there’s a lot to like about the upcoming DS title. So we got pumped. And have been roughly that pumped for the [Read More …]