Monty Speaks:
Happy Halloween! I've been getting my costume ready, this year I'm dressing up as a Vampire Chimp.
"No such thing", you say? Just be glad that you haven't seen one before, they're very terrifyingly scary, I can assure you. ;-)
Lots of exciting news for you, including free Toys for your Trick-Or-Treat bags, new updates for our software, and more.
(By the way, isn't Jen beguiling?)
Monty
Monty Zuma
Official Spokesmonkey
Freeverse
Free Toys are Back!
We recently redesigned our website, and (intentionally?) lost in the shuffle were our infamous Toys, including such luminaries as the "Butcher of Song" himself, Jared, as well as our office-appliance simulation game, SimStapler, featuring hyper-realistic stapling action! What's your high-score?
-Peter Cohen, MacWorld Senior Editor
To check out all the funky goodness, including some nifty wallpapers, go here.
Link :
Freeverse Toys
New and Improved Periscope
Have you ever wondered what it is that goes 'Bump' in the night? Now you can find out, with our new and improved Periscope software for your iSight!
We recently updated Periscope, and let me tell you, this was a complete overhaul. Within minutes, you'll be able to configure Periscope to monitor a room and email a picture to you when it detects motion or sound. Or have Periscope take a photo every half-hour and upload it to a .Mac Web page, or FTP site. Create a time-lapse or stop-motion movie, post to Flickr, or catch that squirrel that's been raiding the bird-feeder!
What's New:
- Ready for OS X 10.5, Leopard.
- Improved interface, resizable main window.
- Supports tens of thousands of images.
- Launch times significantly faster.
- Memory usage significantly decreased.
- Video renders smoother.
- Help has been greatly expanded.
- Many other minor bug fixes.
Link :
Periscope
Several New Games are Right Around the Corner
We have several games coming up for the holiday season, and although most of them are tightly under wraps, let's just say that you'd better send out your "Season's Greetings" now, cuz your friends and family won't be seeing you once you get your mitts on our stocking stuffers!
To give you just a little taste, let me present Neon Tango.
If Chuck Norris had his action removed and hot-glued onto Jack Bauer, and then Mr. Bauer was blended into a protein shake, it would be called "The Neon Tango".
Launch your cybership into battle against the forces of chaos across 50 stages of bitmapped treachery overflowing with glowing enemies and pulsating bosses. Conceived with a gorgeous minimalism, Neon Tango licks the shoot-em-up genre down to its chewy abstract center.
Neon Tango: Coming this Holiday Season, and coming only to the Mac!
To see some screenshots of the cosmicly-psychedelic action, click here.
Link :
Neon Tango
Sound Studio 3 and Legion Arena, Leopardized
We've just released updates to the strategy/war game, Legion Arena and its expansion pack, Cult of Mithras, in order to make them compatible with the latest version of the Mac OS, Leopard.
If you haven't played the demo of these games yet, check them out! To download the updates or a demo of the game, click on the links below.
Links :
Legion Arena
Expansion Pack: Cult of Mithras
Also watch out for next week's release of a Sound Studio update that's 100% Leopard.
Link :
Sound Studio
Airburst will make your 360 spin!
Adding to our growing library of games for the XBox 360, we recently announced an upcoming version of our popular Airburst game for Xbox Live Arcade!
The XBLA version of Airburst is a new game; a fusion of all the best elements of the original Airburst and Airburst Extreme, with a dash of new features just for the Xbox 360. More details will be released in the coming weeks.
Link :
Airburst
Monkeys in Space
Scott, our wonderful Microsoft account manager, decided to blast a rocket into space (plus or minus a few hundred miles). I decided to go for a ride...
Link :
Nuclear Launch Detected
Monkey Chuckles
Jokes
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Q: What do monkeys do for laughs?
A: They tell people jokes!
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Submit your own jokes at BURNINGMONKEY.COM: http://burningmonkey.com/joke/
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