Here is the “visual press release” for upcoming PSN title Noby Noby Boy:

So as I understand it…

You get this tube-like creature called a BOY which can be made to stretch to ridiculous proportions, controlled by the dual analog sticks. You explore the world eating stuff and getting longer and doing weird things with your noodly torso which can also carry typed messages. As you grow the BOY there is another entity in orbit called a GIRL which reflects the cumulative BOY length of the entire player base. GIRL continues to stretch on to the moon and out into the solar system, unlocking new planets to play on for everyone in the game.

It’s good that this reportedly will cost $5, because that will leave room in the budget for some ayahuasca.

1UP has a big preview on the game that is worth checking out, as Matt Leone valiantly tries to explain it using typed words.

Ok fine, I’ll post it! Sheesh!

I bow to Naughty Dog.

I’ll let the graphic speak for itself. All of those things sound like really welcome features (not that I disliked the control system, but options are good.)

Nice to know that my plaintive cry still echoes soundly in Dylan Cuthbert’s ears. (Eyes. Email. Whatever.)

(via pixeljunk.jp > NeoGAF)

With all the fits and starts customary to Sony, the long-awaited and -maligned and -mocked Home online social service opened it’s expensive polygon gates yesterday to the PS3-owning masses. They tend to call these things a roll-out, and roll-out it did, in exactly the manner a flaming earthbound meteor would roll-out, which is to say, there was extended silence and trepidation and doubt followed by a calamitous explosion, and fire, and runnning and screaming.

Not unexpected. Nary an online service can launch these days without the million-monkey-army (that’s you and me) pounding anything mildly interesting into so much molten slag, at launch. So even though Sony’s announcement specified yesterday morning’ish, it really wasn’t until around 10pm EST that you could reliably log into the thing.

What we have in the end is a mixed facsimile of what was presented at GDC 2007. Certainly not as capable, nor as full-featured – and yes, incredibly late. But I will not look too deeply into the shortcomings of this admittedly beta product. Oh sure, it’s beta like Gmail is beta, but it’s also free the way Gmail is free, and between those two words we can cut them a lot of slack. It’s not like anyone is getting ripped off here, so it’s hard to get ornery about missing promised features in this nearly-entirely gratis service.

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Saw this on the ever-reliable 1UP newsblog this morning; I echo their sentiment. Why have we not heard of this? It looks quite stunning – sort of a Diablo’esque platformer with really lush graphics. Reminds me somewhat of a HD version of Abe’s Oddysee.

Developed by Frozenbyte and produced by Nobilis, Trine should be available sometime in the spring on the PlayStation Network, and on PC as well.

This image is very interesting, because what you see in it depends on where you are coming from as a gamer. Or so it seems. This was put out by Kojima Productions today as a little teaser.

I see: the 360’s green colour, a PC’s (well, everything really) power symbol, and little Wii-style “i”s.

“A next Metal Gear game”… is… multiplatform?

We know there are trademarks already for “Metal Gear Existence”. But this might be something else. The url has “MGST” in the title… Metal Gear Solid Tactics? Trilogy? Tofu?

Any guesses?

[edit - just remembered the "!"s in Metal Gear Ac!d... hrm]

[edit 2 - Metal Gear for iPhone/DSi?]

As foretold in the ancient prophecy: if you are in on the Sony Home beta, you can currently go pillage the Mall stores and their newly-arrived virtual goods for the low low price of free. I verified this by purchasing a summer home for nothing, as well as some surprisingly attractive tchockes. Don’t know how long the situation will last, so, if you happen to be in that ridiculously fractional proportion of humanity that is a) in the beta and b) interested in such things – by all means, go forth and enrich your life with hallucinatory bling. I know I will.