You can see the awards here. Good choices all around, given the glaring omission of the actual game of show, God Hand— which didn’t even get a nomination, not even as a fighting game. I mean, just look at it:

It started out as a prank on a Legend of Zelda fanfic writer. The gentlemen responsible for this video approached the fanfic writer and asked him if they could use his “work” as the script for a production from DIC, the animation house that pumped out cartoons in the 80s like Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, and of course The Legend of Zelda. Of course the writer agreed, and a couple of quick animations were thrown together as an “animation test” along with some DIC logos put in for authenticity.

When the video hit the internet, though, it was just good enough to be taken as an authentic DIC animation test— which is to say, it was very awful.
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“PlayStation Signature” is the brand name for this officially-licensed line of lifestyle products, and upscale PSP-owners are the target market. Somehow the PS3 is a mainstream item, though. Well, at least I’m sure Sony’s profit margin is better on this item though, in the sense that there is profit.

If saving up for the PS3 puts the watch out of your range, how about the more moderate $300 PSP designer carrying case, or the $130 long sleeve t-shirt?

Check out the full line at Game Watch Japan. You can multiply the numbers below each picture by .0089 to get an approximate price in U.S. dollars.

It’s a rule: any offbeat project must have a Mario component in its proof-of-concept if it is in any way possible, whether it’s a Roomba that responds to MIDI instructions, or making fun of wire-fu.

Speaking of, Wired reports on this real-time wire-fu adventure based on Super Mario Bros.. Sure, grad students from a smart school may have been Mariofying virtual reality years ago with real science stuff, but that doesn’t diminish the efforts taken by NYUers to take on real reality with nothing but some scaffolding, bungee cords, and a discount card for Jo-Ann’s Fabric Shop. I mean, who are you to dismiss the advanced post-graduate nature of 1980s Japanese game show technology?

Read – Strap Up and Jump Like Mario [Wired News]

Maybe you didn’t know this, because the people who are publishing this Russian game certainly didn’t, but Darwin’s book is actually called The Origin Of Species. Nothing says you’re out of your league quite like aiming for the super-smarty-pants science reference and missing. However it could be worse.

It appears this game used to be called D.1.r.T.. I guess it still is worse, technically, since there are no takebacks for game naming, even if it’s a working title and you don’t speak English. You only announce once, and if the best you can come up with is mixing soil and leet speak, well you’ve just not done enough homework.

If you’re looking for a sexed-up version of Max Payne, though…ew. Anyway, if Max Payne in a thong and pigtails spinning around and shooting giant insects sounds like your kind of thing, there’s a year-old trailer after the jump.
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Reggie Fils-Aime has been promoted from his old job as VP of Marketing to President/COO of Nintendo of America.

It’s been a treat, seeing him go from some poor schlub delivering a hilariously unconvincing declaration of his abilities in the ass-kicking and name-taking departments at E3 2004, to a self-deprecating likable sort at E3 2005, to the ringmaster of Nintendo’s Wii Extravaganza in 2006.

The Movies, winner of Computer Games Magazine’s award for “Best Utility Program of 2005″, is due to expand the Tuesday after next with Stunts and Effects, a $30 bag of tricks.

• Hot: Customizable camera movement, miniature stompable cities
• Blah: Fiddly tycoon game still not patched out, taking up valuable hard drive space.

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