Hey, does everyone know about Phun? ‘Cause I didn’t!

Phun is an easy-to-use physics toy; sort of like The Incredible Machine, but better. You simply draw shapes and set them to behave in certain ways. It’s a wonderfully flexible creative tool, and of course the possibilities are infinite. And it’s FREEWARE, HURRAY! You can watch a demo video here, and download it here.

Anyway... mostly I just wanted to post this:

There’s a YouTube group – right here – for people to show off their Phun creations. Some pretty okay stuff there; give it a squiz!

(Thanks to Swimmy on the TGQ forums for bringing Phun to my attention.)

SUDDEN EDIT: Hey look, a Japanese Phun site! Wow, it looks thorough.

At long last, I am very, very happy to present the first half of my interview with Kenichi Nishi, the designer of LOL: Lack Of Love, Giftpia, Chibi-Robo, and most recently Archime-DS, soon to be released in Europe and Australia as LOL.

I also interviewed Fumihiro Kanaya, the programmer of Archime-DS, and Miki Tashiro of Skip, the game's publisher. This is because I am an interviewing machine that cannot be stopped.

Click the linky bit to read words -- words about Archime-DS, Skip and Nintendo's bit Generations games; words about Nishi's approach to game design; about his philosophies and dog. Meet a living treasure of the world of videogames.

Following on from yesterday's promotional video, here's our totally exclusive gameguide to the profound and confronting masterpiece that is Hermies the Game.

Although the guide doesn't contain any pornographic imagery, it's still pretty NSFW, so you probably shouldn't read it where anyone else can see. I mean, it would be pretty embarassing if your boss, or your teacher, or one of your parents came around and saw you looking at pictures of two disembodied pelvises trying to sodomise each other.

How much free time do you have today? Not much time at all? Good, because that's exactly how long it takes to play Mighty Jill Off, the best freeware game released last week. You can read all about it in my review! How convenient for you!

We received an email from a nice man called Ash, who has started a blog dedicated to awesome and defunct indie game company Lovedelic, and Lovedelic-related companies such as Skip (Chibi-Robo) and Vanpool (Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland), and generally anything or anyone connected in any way with Kenichi Nishi (who you will remember from our Archime-DS review). Needless to say, this blog is right up our alley, and here it is: Lovedelic Life. Go there an' things!

AND! From Lovedelic Life comes the happy news that Archime-DS will be released in the UK in May! Good gracious! KEN-CHAN YOU GOTTA TELL ME THESE THINGS, MAN. Anyway -- good time to be a pom! Or in May it will be, at least. Provided you're not too busy WALLOWING IN MISERY. Oh isn't the weather terrible. It's shocking the things these days.

Second update of the year and I'm already late. It's not my fault! There were monsters.

This is a long, long review of Archime-DS, the latest game from Kenichi Nishi, the creator of Chibi-Robo, Giftpia, and other, similarly unique and neato games. This review is so long that most of it isn't even a review. What is it, instead? Who knows. Not me! I already forgot! It is so amazing and cool and good that my brain just couldn't hold on to it.

I need a cup of tea.

You guys know about Fez, right? This is Fez:

Totally cool. I don't know who that little munchkin is, but I love him so. Anyway, GameSetWatch has a nice little Q & A with the guys who are making Fez, in which they reveal the true identity of the mysterious Jason DeGroot! Who is Jason DeGroot? He is the man who is doing the music for Fez! That's who!

MYSTERY SOLVED.

Anyway it's a good interview and you should check it out.

In what's quickly becoming a habit of mine, I've gone and turned what was supposed to be a concise summary of the new Wizball remake into a lengthy screed filled with profanity and Cockney slang. I don't know why I keeping doing this. I guess I just love you guys TOO DAMN MUCH.

Here's a review of Plasma Warrior -- a snack-sized freeware game where you jump up and down and shoot things. What did I think of it? HIT THE JUMP TO FIND OUT!!

Ah, just kidding -- I thought it was great. But go ahead and read the review anyway, because I'm a good writer and you will enjoy it.

Since this is a short review, here's my short intro: Knytt Stories good. You download.