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The Meat Bun pop up shop at Giant Robot is now open for business! For a limited time, you can buy the latest (and sold out!) designs from Meat Bun at GR2 in Los Angeles, California–including tons of stuff that’s out of stock on our web store. Of course, you can also buy about a bazillion other fascinating things from GR2, including art, apparel, housewares and much, much more. If you’re in the area, grab some Meat Bun at GR2, where we also co-host Game Night bi-monthly.

GR2
2062 Sawtelle Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA

Thanks to Haunted Temple’s Skulls of the Shogun and Reverge Labs’ Skullgirls, Giant Robot’s Game Night 5 was a big old success. Our late June Game Night was one of the biggest yet, with folks swarming the game stations indoors and outdoors, helping us stay open and running way later than planned.

Credit to Adam Robezzoli of Attract Mode fame and the Angry Bananas Extra thanks to the big crowds of game enthusiasts, game developers and Meat Bun fans for coming out to show their support of indie games and local game events. Take a look at some of the snapshots from the night’s event, with way more over at the Giant Robot blog. (There are a few Meat Bun sneak peeks at the next couple lines in here, if you’re curious!)

We visited graphic designer extraordinaire and mega-hyper-clever artist Olly Moss’ art show at Gallery 1988 on Melrose, a show dedicated to silhouette portraits ranging from Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters to Team Fortress 2 classes to Judge Dredd to Andre the Giant. It was packed, pieces sold out immediately and we’re fortunate enough to have amazing video from Olly’s show, thanks to Threadless. Next time, we’ll make sure to line up hours in advance. Maybe days.

The best thing about making things for Meat Bun? Working with amazing artists, folks like the incredibly talented Mike Faille, for example. Recently, we collaborated with Mike on an upcoming release, an old school sci-fi project that I’ve been wanting to do forever. It’s based on one of my favorite video games and we’re really thrilled with the way it turned out. Mike’s probably best known for his illustration work on awesomely ubernerdy stuff like Dungeons & Dragons and other Wizards of the Coast properties, so he knows how to draw the shit out of a goblin, dwarf or dragon.

We dig Mike’s fantasy and sci-fi illustrations. You should too. Here’s a small sampling of some of his work. Head over to his web site and art blog for more.

What’s going on? Well, how about a reminder that The Pixies were one of the first bands to cover video game music. Yeah, they covered the theme from the amazing, but not actually that great NARC in 1991. Now, I used to love some NARC, even though it was one of those Midway quarter vacuums, partly because it was so gloriously over-the-top, so excessively violent as things were in the 1980s. It’s really too bad about that 2005 NARC game…

While we’re looking back at the 80s, here’s a great walkthrough of a brand spanking new Chuck E. Cheese’s. I used to play the hell out of some 1943 at the location nearest my house.

Looking forward, it sure seems like we’re due for Soulcalibur V in a few weeks.

And are we really hotly anticipating the new Call of Duty: Black Ops expansion? Turns out we are! Not only does it have Freddy Krueger and Machete, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in it too!

Oh, did you see this? :3

That’s the NSFW work of Bjørnar Frøyse, who turns in a beautifully rendered 16-year-old’s fantasy version of Princess Peach.

For a cold shower of a video, here’s a look at Valve’s snack set-up. Gabe’s a good guy.

Did you play Unpleasant Horse, the new game from Popcap spin-off 4th and Battery? Dude, it’s free on iTunes. C’mon.

And finally, here’s Gooteks and Mike Ross taking the new Mortal Kombat for a spin. Can’t wait to see some high level play of this game at EVO this year…

There are exactly one bazillion Kickstarter projects you could be backing right now, but the one that we’d recommend would be Matt “Fort90″ Hawkins’ fund-raising plan for the next issue of the Fort90 ‘zine: FORT90ZINE4ANSWER. Not only will it have the video game culture stylings of the culturally stylish Mr. Hawkins, it’ll have work by Cory Schmitz, Farel Dalrymple, Travis Nichols and Toby Jones, plus all kind of other obviously great things.

If you’ve never had the pleasure of curling up with a Fort90 zine, this is a great opportunity. Sure, Matt has already (quickly) met his fund-raising goal, but you can still contribute and get back issues and recognition and maybe even a print from the talented Mariel Cartwright. Hell, maybe we’ll make the regular publishing for Fort90 zine a reality.