Beefy just posted a video for his song “Sidekick“, which is a ode to Mario’s taller brother…. and all the other video game sidekicks out there. The song is off of Beef’s album With Sprinkles.

We’ve seen some great reviews for our new web game, KnifeTank, including this fabulous piece on Download Squad and even a shout out on Kotaku. Thanks guys!

Voting for the BoingBoing Chiptune Challenge is nearly over. We’ve seen some heavy traffic on the KnifeTanks.com server, but our game is still sitting depressingly low in the poll. I’m thinking a lot of people have been enjoying the games listed in the poll, but haven’t always been clicking back to the BB page to vote. So we came up with this idea: if KnifeTank ends up with the most votes by the end of the contest (tomorrow night), we will give away the KnifeTank album for free for three days.

I’m really proud of what we’ve done with the game and it’s accompanying chiptune soundtrack, so if you liked our work be sure to vote. We are putting the final touches on the album right now, and hope to have it out in time for Friday night’s show. Aside from Crashfaster’s original 4 chiptune songs from KnifeTank, the album will also feature remixes by 8bit bEtty and minusbaby, as well as a new nerdcore rap track by Beefy and myself.

Just to be clear, if KnifeTank has the most votes by the time the BoingBoing poll closes this Wednesday night, we will be making the entire KnifeTank soundtrack available online for free. So be sure to vote!

I swear this is work related! Our game is nearly finished, but we’ve decided to push back the release date a bit. Since the functionality is all done, this extra time means more tweaking and last minute ideas. The reason I’m wearing lipstick (in the above picture) will hopefully be found when our iPhone game comes out. It’s one of many easter eggs we hid in the game.

Every time you emulate, God kills a cabinet.

Above is my remix of the classic “masturbation” meme. I made another one (below) with those same old watercolors I keep talking about. I want to the second one, because Joss knows I’ve put a ton of work on it, but the photo version is obviously superior.

BTW, if I haven’t mentioned it already, I created a new flickr set for all my watercolor illustrations.