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From right, Phil Fish (gentleman who makes the IGF Seumas McNally Grand Prize award-winning Fez) and Richard Lemarchand (gentleman who makes those wildly popular Uncharted games), perform as PHILLIPPE LEMARCHAND. They’re joined by Baiyon (PixelJunk 4 AM) while repping some Meat Bun at the Venus Patrol party at GDC. It’s easily our favorite photo from the entire week, because we love seeing Meat Bun on people, but the full GDC 2012 photo set from Jeriaska of Nobuwo is spectacular stuff if you love video game music and video game music people.

Meat Bun is thrilled to take part in the upcoming Diversions art show at Giant Robot LA and humbled to be showcasing a selection of our artwork alongside some amazing talent.

Diversions begins this Saturday, March 10 and runs until April 4. The group exhibition features Sean Chao, Feric, Jude Buffum, French, Monyo Monyo and Paul Roberston, whose work you may recognize from our Snack Attack and Big Money, Big Prizes tees (or the web site you’re looking at right now).

The opening reception will happen this Saturday March 10th 2012 from 6:30-10pm. We’ll have some prints of our work on display–and for purchase, of course–that are exclusive to the show.

Some additional details from the release:

Jude Buffum from Philadelphia crosses 8-bit art and social and pop culture commentary. Monyo Monyo from Japan creates wearable masks that are furry and powerful. Feric from Taiwan is known for his delicate and cyber-detailed pieces. Originally from Taiwan but now a resident of Los Angeles, Sean Chao creates astonishing dioramic worlds. French from England evokes metal music and its iconography. Meat Bun, our comrades from multiple pop up shops and Game Night events will display some of their iconic work. In attendance for the opening will be Paul Robertson, Sean Chao and the trio who make Meat Bun.

Diversions will be on view at GR2 which is located at 2062 Sawtelle Blvd LA, CA 90025. Be there!

We’re heading back to Sawtelle Avenue this weekend for the latest Giant Robot Game Night. GR2 will host Game Night 7 this Saturday, December 3 featuring two great Polytron Corporation games: the long awaited FEZ and crazy 3D head-tracking experience superHYPERCUBE.

Oh, and bring your Nintendo 3DS for some serious StreetPass fun.

This Saturday will also see the kick-off of the newest Meat Bun pop-up shop at GR2. This will be your first chance to get all-new Meat Bun stuff from the forthcoming Cute ‘Em Up line. More previews of that soon.

Here’s the relevant details, Angelenos and Southern Californians.

Game Night 7 – Polytron Games: Fez and superHYPERCUBE, Nintendo 3DS StreetPass
Saturday, December 3 2011, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Giant Robot 2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90025
gr2.net

Those are the relevant details! If you would like to join us at Game Night 6, come to GR2 in Los Angeles, CA on September 17. The Meat Bun Pop Up Shop pops up for one full month on Sawtelle Boulevard. We’ll have out of stock tees on hand that you won’t be able to get anywhere else.

Was 2011 the best Evolution Championship Series ever? Maybe! It was certainly one of our favorites, hosting the world’s best Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Tekken 6 and Mortal Kombat players. Meat Bun was fortunate enough to be in attendance once again this year, watching an 8-year-old MvC3 phenom named Noah send fighting game vets three times his age home with his impressive Hulk skills. Latif and Fuudo dazzled the crowd with impressive runs in Street Fighter IV. It was so, as the kids say, hype.

Meat Bun was there, of course, representing with the official EVO 2011 tee and all-new gear, which quickly sold out, thanks to huge crowds of virtual fighters and spectators.

Jason and Mike were there, betting cash on fights and previewing some of the new Meat Bun line inspired by Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Mega Man and more.

Master Adon player GamerBee stopped by the booth, grabbing a new “Beautiful Spring Propaganda” tee.

The triple J–Jay Jay and Jared–stopped by in full cosplay glory, showing a little love.

Even Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono stopped by (pictured with his companion Blanka), showing some trademark excitement for “Emperor of Muay Thai.” Don’t be surprised if you see Ono-san sporting a new Street Fighter-inspired wardrobe in the coming weeks.

We even ran into Street Fighter player/model/Crimson Viper cosplayer Kayo Satoh! *AHEM!*

Thanks to everyone at EVO 2011 for making this another awesome year, with big shout outs to the Cannons, MrWizard, Seth Killian, Wes, Hector, Daigo, Shino and everyone else who made this year another one to remember. See you next year!

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!)