Recently on Offworld

Recently on Offworld we saw the addition of a new guest blogger, with Mike Nowak bringing us Rome's Il Creatore and his lo-fi Commodore 64, SIDStation, talk-box, and vocoder pixel pop, and saw The Wire's Clay "sheeeit" Davis re-emerge as Doc, the coach of Punch-Out!! revival star Little Mac (above).

We also saw the fruits of Klei Entertainment's labor in bringing the full weight of traditional animation to their beat-em-up Shank, moved on the last chance to pick up another gloriously cartoon-y game, The Behemoth's Alien Hominid, and found and fancied another fantastic Grim Fandango custom vinyl toy.

Finally, we saw grandfather of home videogame Ralph Baer take on the retro-futurist version of his original creation in style, a low-bit mountain climbing game design loosely based on an Akira Kurosawa short, and the creators of the masochistic arcade game PainStation return with the MoshPit Amp, a music peripheral that cranks its tubes to 11 the harder you headbang until the echo effect builds to the point that the pyrotechnics flair and the amp moshes itself.

And our 'one shot's for the day: the gorgeously ultra-vivid early days of similarly moshable metal game Brutal Legend, and the founder of Harvard College reimagined as Halo's Master Chief.