If there’s one thing I love, it’s games that perpetuate their back stories outside of the game itself (Matt Hazard developers D3P did this recently by creating a fictional back-catalogue of titles on their website that supposedly preceded the game). And if there’s another thing I like, it’s Bioshock 2.

To promote the upcoming Bioshock 2, it appears that the games developers 2K have been perpetuating their own back story through the medium of children’s drawings and vinyl records.

Of course, we didn’t get sent these – these were sent to Kotaku. I’m not sure what you have to do to get sent awesome looking vinyls for free, but I’m certain there’s very little I wouldn’t do.

The Big Lebowski and videogames; two of mankind’s greatest achievements. But what if the two weren’t mutually exclusive? What if The Big Lebowski found itself in a bed with video games, what would happen then? This, probably:

They’re the work of a chap called Jude Buffum who primarily creates unlikely videogame scenarios in a pixel art style. Go have a gander at some of his other works and, if you consider yourself cool enough, you can even buy prints of his work to adorn your walls! (Decor tip: these would look great with your tetris wall tiles)

Did you know that Scott C. was in London a few weeks ago? Neither did I! Why the hell don’t I check Doube Fine Action News more often?! Clearly I have a terrible idiocy-based disease.

Regardless, Scott Campbell (the bloke what did art and stuff for Psychonauts, and does a regular Double Fine Action Comic) was here in my horrific and beautiful country signing things on Shaftesbury Avenue (in London), leaving in his wake a collaborative art show in Notting Hill (the Film) entitled simply: Supreme Broship.

Have a poster or two!

The show ends in five days. Shit. If I can find the place I’m going to check it out.

Oh, and some other bloke I haven’t heard of that’s quite good has stuff there too!

Have a look at the official site or I will punch your mother, and maybe your father, as long as he’s smaller than me.

If your love of gaming goes as far as decorating your house in such a way that any visitors are instantly made aware of your unhealthy obsession, then you could do worse than these.

Personally,  I employ more conventional methods, such as leaving games lying around and having several consoles sat beneath the TV. But if I felt that this just wasn’t saying ‘I LIKE GAMES’ loud enough, then tiling my kitchen in Tetris shaped mosaic tiles would be the first thing I did.

Remember this game that Matt described as ‘crotch destroyingly beautiful‘? Well that analysis was based on screenshots; now that a trailer has surfaced it looks even more beautiful! Hold on to your crotch and eyes.

Unfortunately, the trailer’s all in German so I have no idea what they’re saying. I did manage to pick up ‘clown’ and ‘fantastisch’ though (which I know means ‘bloody great’ in German), so I can only imagine they’re saying good things. There’s even a small scene right at the end that suggests something funny is being said, though I can’t be certain. Can someone that speaks German confirm this for us?

The game is slated for release later this year.

I thought about trying to make this post funny, but then I couldn’t, so I left it for a bit. However, since it’s Sunday now and you’re probably feeling like shit anyway, it seems like an opportune time to throw a pointless observation at you, just because otherwise there wouldn’t be an update today at all!

Here is the observation I have observed:

Doesn’t the new Max Payne look a bit like David Bazan?

No? No. Probably not then. I think it’s because they’re both balding and have beards. If I was balding and had a beard I could be Max Payne/David Bazan I suspect.

Ah well, thanks for your time, sorry everyone. Next time I observe something I’ll keep it to myself.

(don’t worry, we’re still about games, not guitars)