I was recently recommended by Kotowari.org to check out indie clothing company Bag of Bees, who have been commissioned by Rising Star Games to make a couple of t-shirt designs for Half Minute Hero.
Half Minute Hero is a parody on the traditional Japanese RPG, condensing the long, 8 bit grinding sessions of old into thirty second intervals. It has a really nice retro style, with a lot of personality for the Sony PSP system.
This morning I received my parcel for the red t-shirt design, so I’ve posted up some photographs of it below.
It’s a little darker than I expected, but fits very well.
A lovely little message from the guys at Bag of Bees. Thank you!
Who will be the first person to comment/ know what the t-shirt is referring too?
It’s normally very hard to find well made, creative video game clothing. I’m not sure why, because there are a lot of gamers who presumably would like some t-shirts to show off their favourite characters. There are a few available in UK stockists such as Game and Gamestation, but they’re normally compressed into cellophane packets and look like quite poor quality. If you know good online stockists for video game clothing (preferably those who ship internationally) let me know!
JetSetNick
Harmonix has announced through its official Facebook page that Rock Band 3 will be hitting UK shores this winter. The third iteration will apparently ‘revolutionize the music genre once again’ – although just how this will be done is still unknown.
Rock Band 2 is already a solid platform because of its steady release of DLC and the recent launch of the indie Rock Band Network. Presumably they’ve got a big hardware overhaul or some serious gameplay changes if they feel they need to release a new retail game.
This will be the second Rock Band release of 2010, following on from the Green Day: Rock Band announcement that was leaked in December. Harmonix’s previous tribute to The Beatles was absolutely fantastic, but somehow I just can’t see a Green Day version having the same universal appeal.
Rock Band 3 is being published by MTV Games and will be distributed by everyone’s favourite global giant, Electronic Arts.
JetSetNick
Earlier this week I was summoned to Skype in order to take part in a quick podcast with Adrockski, staff writer for Thumbsticks.net. During the show I discuss the downloadable content for Assassin’s Creed 2 and the current climate of distributing DLC. Adrockski reviews Saboteur for me and we round everything up with my initial impressions of Bioshock 2. It clocks in at around 45 minutes, so it’s hopefully a suitable length for you to burn through on the way to work or listen whilst procrastinating on the internet. Please give us comments and let us know how we’re doing!
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For anyone that’s keeping tabs on which video games I’m playing, this afternoon I reached Dionysus Park on Bioshock 2. Though still a bit linear, I’m loving the level design and fantastic audio files. I’ll have a review up soon, I promise!
JetSetNick
