Just show me just one single person, who does not love the Samorost-series, made by Amanita design? Now he came up with new work, that is as charming as Samorost. Machinarium takes you into a magical, magical place, where you have to click on the right objects in the right order to make things happen. The music alone grabs your hand and takes you to an epic journey. Combined with the extremely-solid graphic… jackpot!

Machinarium will be released in October 2009 and will cost about 20 dollars. Pre-orders get a 3 dollar discount bonus. Let’s hope that the ratio between free / paid content is much more balanced than on Samorost 2. Uhm, will there be actually a free version after all?

Phlow is a webzine for free creative commons music. It started several years ago in German only, but made the move to a broader audience almost two years ago with the English Phlow-Magazine.com. Almost every day a new review of a free mp3-release from the netlabel-scene is presented. But that’s not the news. Behind the curtain the project evolved. And the “Phlow Magazine” is now available in Spanish, too. At Phlow.es a highly motivated team keeps on digging and compiling the best netaudio-releases, that are released under a creative commons licence on the web. Therefore the music, that is reviewed at Phlow, is free to download and share with your friends. As you can see, the archive of great music for free is growing and growing. Or like Applejux, the main-editor of Phlow.es said:

Netaudio makes me think. Netaudio is “Hello, good morning, nice to meet you!” Netaudio makes me happy, so… why not?

ICU64 – some information, that I could dig about this one. The ICU64 should be a C64 emulator, or better memory manipulator or cheat engine, that should be released later this summer. It uses “Frodo Redpill”, a tool / modified version of the Frodo C64 Emulator.

ICU64 is more meant as a hacking tool, than a typical emulator. Well, just look at the video how this is meant: zooming, browsing, changing, enjoying C64-memory. I found more useful reading about this project on the Lemon64-forum. (via)

The 12th Evoke was a blast. Great location, great products, great people! Thanks go to all participants. The t-shirts selled out in record time – Evoke staff is preparing a second edition. They are taking pre-orders now.

Lunaquatic by BluFlame (Winner 4k!).

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Evoke is early on this year. The Cologne Demoscene-Part will start tomorrow at a new location. I hope the party is going as fresh as the new website from them. Cya there!

Holy cow. The aliens are landing! If you look at this music-controller, that is basically consisting of 7 joystick, things are getting spooky. Indeed, a “mini-orchestra for the fingers”. You can even combine many of this controllers. Let’s start the engines, commander! More images at Yanko. (via)

Glenn Marshall once again hits the scene, this time in the iPhone. He uses generative art, to make an beautiful application “half screensaver, half machine”. The work is not finished, Glen says about Zio it in his blog: “I think I’m about 66% of the way there now.”

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