Well Aldex -the winner of our Beat Mako and get reward for it contest- has received his prize and was kind enough to supply us with a picture of it, featuring the canvas, Aldex, his most precious tie and his nicest pecs.

So in turn we’d like to supply him with a picture of the defeated vilain, featuring Mako, his eternal hat and his nicest week-old beard.

With his insolent grin of awesomeness gone everything is at its place, and we’ll be ready to shed some more details about the Twin Blades update at the end of this week!

Fab rightly reminded us that it was Press Start Studio’s very first birthday! (it actually was 2 days ago, fortunately unlike your average girlfriend a company tends not to whine as much with this kind of things)

A Nexus One would have been a very fitting gift for this little association of ours, but I was far too busy staring at the only 4 booth babes of the Mobile World Congress to attend the Google conference and missed the free giveaway party (one of them winked at me so definitely worth it).





Twin Blades has some fans out there, and every now and then some of you guys take the time to send us your thoughts about the game, what you like the most and what you’d like to see improved. Today we’ve received an email from Richard S. and it ends like this:

“I bid you all the best of luck in future creations and thank you for creating this still entertaining game.”

This makes a nice gift. Cheers Richard, always heartwarming to read such sweet stuff (even though you are no booth babe).

So we’re working on this superb piece of hardware to port Twin Blades onto which happens to be a very expensive prototype sent to a handful (probably a couple handfuls) developers in the world and we signed such a restrictive NDA to get it that only by having read this I must ask you to grab the nearest scissors to cut your tongue, burn it and send the ashes to their legal department.

We had this prototype, and we couldn’t do anything with it.

The device required a firmware upgrade, and fortunately there was a detailed tutorial as to how it should be done. Jeff carefully read the instructions (coders aren’t like us humans: they read manuals before encountering problems) and did the deed, only to see the bloody thing reboot halfway through because it didn’t have enough batteries.

It bricked, bricado, kaput. Spent half an hour pushing all the buttons only to find himself in front of the same blue screen of death.

While we didn’t miss the opportunity to mock the time of his youth he wasted attending medical college instead of flashing PSP firmwares like everyone else, somehow a couple hours later in a leap of faith of biblical epic proportions Jeff managed to ressuscitate the object.

So here he is all happy and all, telling about his miracle on the uber-secret developer’s forum and naturally someone else who also bricked his prototype asked how he did it, and those are the steps from his recollection:

‘I yelled, slammed the door and went to the kitchen to smoke three cigarettes. When I came back, it turned on just fine.‘

If you ask me the man deliberately omits to mention the beheaded chicken we later found in the kitchen sink. The difference between a good coder and a great one? Tech-voodoo.