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November 5th, 2009 at 11:39am
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Gaijin Games has announced a release date for the third game in its abstract, chiptune-infused Bit.Trip series. Bit.Trip: Void, which involves using the Nunchuk’s analog stick to absorb and/or avoid dots based on color, will arrive in North America on November 23. “That’s right, the week of Thanksgiving!” the announcement notes. “Total sweetness in the village.” Like Beat and Core, it’ll cost 600 Wii Points.
If you like the music from the Bit.Trip games, you’ll also be delighted to know that the soundtrack for Bit.Trip: Beat is now available for purchase on iTunes and CDBaby, with releases to follow on pretty much every online and mobile music retailer you’ve ever heard of, and several you haven’t.
Finally, proving its allegiance to the chiptune community. Gaijin Games announced that it will sponsor this year’s Blip Festival in New York City. Classy!
Give thanks for Bit.Trip Void on November 23 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 15th, 2009 at 05:45pm
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Proving that the
Bit.Trip is far from reaching its destination, Nintendo has
listed two additional games in the pixel-celebrating series for WiiWare. (We already
got a hint at another this morning, bringing the total number of
Trips we’ll be going on to three.)
The Big N has the already announced Bit.Trip: Void down for Q3 2009 release, noting that “three additional titles” in the franchise will arrive sometime in Q4 2009 and into Q1 2010. We already know from our chat with Gaijin Games that one of the trio is based on an old-school Atari title — the other two are anyone’s guess. We’re betting on the sixth game being Bit.Trip: Trip, in which players must guide a lone pixel home through all of the previous Bit.Trip games.
Nintendo reveals three new Bit.Trip games headed to WiiWare originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 15th, 2009 at 03:15pm
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Following his panel about Gaijin Games’ design process, we approached art director Mike Roush to try to get some more information about Bit.Trip: Void — specifically, when we’ll be able to download and play it. He wasn’t entirely sure, because nobody is when it comes to downloadable Nintendo releases, but he told us, “If I were to guess, it would be mid-October. We wanted to push that release date back.”
Roush said that Gaijin is shooting for a simultaneous worldwide release for the Ikaruga-ish dot-absorbing game, after receiving some “flak” from impatient European fans. While we were chatting, we tried our wiliest interview techniques to try to extract some hints about the next Bit.Trip title — which is to say we asked for hints about the next Bit. Trip title. “I will not give you a hint,” Roush said. “However, it is the game we all wanted to make when we started Gaijin Games. It’s the game we’ve been waiting for… I will give you a hint: it will be based off of an Atari game.”
And no, it isn’t Warlords. We asked.
Austin GDC 2009: Gaijin Games hints at Bit.Trip: Void release date, next game originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 1st, 2009 at 04:40pm
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Gaijin Games is up to its old tricks again, offering inscrutable teasers for an upcoming game, though the new “Explore the Void” site is much more quietly lovely than the Commander Video mysteries we’re used to. Over the last week or so, the developer has posted images to the site that have now been revealed as extreme closeups of satellite dishes in silhouette.
What does it mean for the next game? Bit. Trip: Dish? Bit. Trip: Transmit?Bit. Trip: Zoomed In Images of Everyday Objects? At least we have pretty pictures to look at while we contemplate this puzzle.
Explore the Void with Aksys and Gaijin Games originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 17th, 2009 at 09:00pm
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Gaijin Games returns with another installment in its Bit.Trip series: Bit.Trip: Core, and if you found yourself hyperventilating at the prospect of zapping pixels from a whole bunch of different directions, know those fears are well-founded. Bit.Trip: Core is very tough, but like its predecessor, it’s not frustrating.
[Note: There's also a video review!]
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Review: Bit.Trip Core (WiiWare) originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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June 25th, 2009 at 03:15pm
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Gaijin Games posted this semi-cryptic puzzle to its official blog yesterday, offering what seems to be the release date for Bit.Trip: Core, the follow-up to the retro-rhythm-Pong-shooter, Bit.Trip: Beat. The numbers “7+6+9″ correspond to a date: July 6, 2009, which just happens to be a Monday. We’ve gotten confirmation from Gaijin Games that this is indeed the meaning of the image.
“Absolutely,” Gaijin’s Chris Osborn told us. “And it will be the 100th WiiWare release!” Given that Nintendo saves its milestone Virtual Console releases for things like Zelda games, it seems like quite a distinction to be the hundredth game on WiiWare.
[Via GoNintendo]
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