Fez creator Phil Fish just announced Power Pill last night, not with a press release, but via a seven-minute presentation at Montreal's Pecha Kucha event. And here it is!
IndieCade, the International Festival of Indie Games, kicks off this Thursday (Oct. 1-4) in Culver City, and we've got some free passes. Day passes (a $20 item, normally), conference passes, media passes, even a few party passes!
How are we doing for Montreal representation? Because Phil Fish of Polytron, the guys making Fez (what's a Fez?) is revealing a new game he's collaborating on with fellow indie Infinite Ammo at Pecha Kucha on Wednesday, September 30.
A little over a month ago we announced our HP Mini netbook giveaway, courtesy of Virgin America's new in-flight WiFi and Google Apps. In the neighborhood of 1000 Bitmob posts later, we have chosen a winner. Or, more accurately, the Internet's premiere website for generating random numbers, Random.org, has chosen a winner. And that winner is 861, also known as James DeRosa! James, check your email because we haven't heard back from you yet!
Please find enclosed a selection of Dreamcast-related writings by your fellow Bitmobbers. And stay tuned for tomorrow's Dreamcastiversary Reviews Spotlight!
It happened. Talkin' about Beatles: Rock Band.
Aaaaaand pencils down! Our month-long contest to win an HP Mini netbook via posting on Bitmob is over as of right now. Thanks to everyone who took part; we'll be announcing the lucky winner on Monday, 9/14/09!
Now that PAX is over, all that's left is to recover from H1N1 and sift through the photos. Luckily Bitmobbers David Ngo and Evan Killham are busy doing the second one.
Our Sunday Spotlight feature includes familial death matches, a list of 2D classics ripe for resurrection, a controversial post about Western vs. Eastern game aesthetics, more game music as curated by James DeRosa, and a look at Command & Conquer 4.
In the first of two Bitmob Spotlights this weekend we've got a personal story from Lee Bradley, a contentious claim by David Matos, a preview from Rob Savillo of a game I'm suddenly nuts for, and a cautionary Xbox Live tale from Jon Schults.
Just a brief reminder -- our contest to win an HP Mini netbook courtesy of Virgin America and Google Apps is still running for one more week. Read our initial giveaway announcement for the full story, but here's the short version: Post blog entries on Bitmob and you'll be elligible to win!
Just a friendly bump/reminder! Less than two weeks to go...
This is not your average t-shirt giveaway, not that there's anything wrong with t-shirts.
In association with Google Apps and Virgin America, we're giving away a new HP Mini netbook to help celebrate the launch of Virgin's in-flight WiFi service, which will allow you to use Google applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Search from all your favorite altitudes of and around 36,000 feet. Conveniently, it also works for the rest of the Internet, too.
This item is known more exactly as the HP Mini 1110NR and contains an Intel Atom N270 processor (1.60 GHz), 8GB solid-state drive, 1024MB of DDR2 SDRAM, and an 8.9" screen ideal for Peggle. But wait! You also get a handsome teal (or is it seafoam?) laptop sleeve emblazoned with clouds. This laptop sleeve technically fits 13-15" laptops, so inserting the HP Mini in there will be akin to throwing a silicon hotdog down a neoprene hallway, but whatever.
So what do you have to do to win? Read on.
*Not counting the whole Star Wars universe thing
I already wrote up some impressions of the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO based on watching a live demo, but on my last day at Gamescom I got a chance to actually play it myself. After 15 minutes spent steering a Sith Warrior through the demo area, I picked up a few small bits of new info, and discovered some interesting ways that SWTOR differs from the king of MMOs, World of WarCraft.
No Auto-Attack
"If you don't press any buttons you'll just stand there," said the BioWare rep hovering around my shoulder. My low-ish level Sith had six attacks; the first couple were fairly standard light saber slashes, but one generated action points with each use (more on that in a second), while the other costs action points. I think each of these were on a 1.5 second cooldown.
Next up, a charge maneuver that I used to open each battle. The cooldown on this wasn't terribly long, maybe eight seconds, so it was easy to zip around all over the place. Ranged classes may have trouble staying at range against one of these guys in PVP.
The Warrior also has an area of effect stun on a longer cooldown, and a channeled force choke move that immobilizes your enemy and also earns action points. Which brings me to….
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