Table of contents for No. 166 in GamesTM

Graphics don’t do a great deal for me. I like a good-looking game, don’t get me wrong, but ‘good looking’ can mean a lot of things. I would consider Journey, for instance, to be one of the most beautiful games released in the last ten years. It’s not exactly pushing the boundaries of graphical fidelity, but it has a style and sets a scene in a gorgeous way. I respect style more than I respect resolution. I care about cinematography more than I care about polygons. For this reason, looking at a game like Fallout 4 and seeing just how large and rich a world Bethesda is creating, seeing how much more colourful the Commonwealth looks compared to the Capital Wasteland, I’m impressed. I don’t much care that it’s not…

OUYA • The Ouya was one of gaming’s more spectacular fails. The plucky little machine was intended to be the future of the games industry – but without proper online infrastructure, the whole thing fell apart somewhat. AMAZON FIRE TV • Amazon’s little streaming device that tried so hard to convert streamers to players never really took off, mostly because there was little to no support for the gaming side of things on the device. OUYE • A strange Chinese console paid for by crowdfunding, the Ouye is by far the most derivative console we’ve ever seen – it looks like the PS4 and Xbox One’s Frankenstein child, and even its name is a spin-off of the doomed Ouya. NVIDIA SHIELD • The Nvidia Shield markets itself as a handheld…

I'm not entirely convinced that the Tokyo Game Show even happened last year. Sony likes to save its big announcements for its own events, Nintendo's Direct-led format is still proving effective and Microsoft may as well just pull out of Japan now to deny us the amusement of Xbox One being outsold by Vita TV again. Still, this year was different. While not perhaps as epic as when Japan was truly the seat of power for the videogame industry, TGS actually had reveals, announcements and showings this year, leaving us in no doubt that it actually happened and giving us hope for the Japanese console scene. If you’ve been wondering where all the console JRPGs have disappeared to, this show should have quelled your concerns. New RPGs were absolutely everywhere,…

The SPECIAL system for determining the skills and specialities of your character in Fallout has been a staple of the series, but as we discussed it with Feargus Urquhart, the original game’s division director, we were surprised to find out it was originally going to use a licenced system instead. “When I was first involved with Fallout 1 it was a GURPS game, so it was using the GURPS role-playing system and that was licensed from Steve Jackson Games.” GURPS stands for Generic Universal RolePlaying System and was developed for tabletop RPGs, offering a universal character system that could be used across genres. However, the pitch to Steve Jackson Games to allow the system to be used in Fallout wasn’t as successful as the team might have hoped. “He really…

The tale of the lost Fallout sequel is one well known to Fallout fans. VanBuren was the project, started by Black Isle Studios, the original team behind the game. But as we discuss the history of Fallout with Feargus Urquhart, a key player in the series he reveals it wasn’t the first attempt at a sequel. “There was actually a Fallout 3 beforethere was a Van Buren,” he reveals. “One of the weird coincidences is that the 3D engine that we were looking at the time, because Interplay didn’t really have a cohesive 3D engine, was a 3D engine called NDL, and NDL oddly enough was either purchased or merged into Alienbrain and Gamebryo, and then Gamebryo is basically what Bethesda used as the basis of their engine for what…

Alternate Skins • Different skins are often only available through real money purchases, which makes them that little bit more special – a sign that the person playing is particularly fond of the character, too. Customisable hats • Or any type of swappable cosmetic gear, really. This is Valve’s preferred means of monetisation, and it has certainly proven popular since players can even sell their own creations. Unlockable characters • Most MOBAs rely on this as a means of income, but so long as you’re given opportunities to try before you buy and unlock them via in-game currency too then it’s not so bad. Item rentals • As long as the cost of actually renting the item is good value – which is a difficult element to balance – then…

SPELUNKY Perfect for up to four players, Spelunky is actually a really intense multiplayer experience… not as accessible as Rocket League, but if you get addicted to score chasing, this roguelike really comes into its own GANG BEASTS Amazingly good fun based around controlling doughy little men and getting them to smash each other in the face, push each other into furnaces or just pummel each other to death… it’s relaxing! TOWERFALL: ASCENSION Deceptively simple in its execution, Towerfall: Ascension relies on skill and reflexes to come out of top of your friends… be careful though – a snipe shot from across the 2D map can ruin friendships SPORTSFRIENDS Composed of minigames, you can have a lot of fun with Sportsfriends, despite its small offering of content. Like Rocket League,…

DETAILS FORMAT: Playstation 4 OTHER FORMATS: Xbox One, PC ORIGIN: France PUBLISHER: Ubisoft DEVELOPER: Ubisoft Montpelier / Straight Right PRICE: £15.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A Shorn of some of its smartest and coolest features, this thoroughly decent port of the underplayed Wii U launch title ZombiU continues to pack a fearsome punch, even in diminished form. A chilly and strangely melancholic adventure that merits an enthusiastic shout in any discussion about all-time great launch software, it’s an inspired oddity that more than deserves to find a new audience. On that score, kudos to Ubisoft: the new price is certainly right. And despite the fact that the original’s most energising features are missed, ZombiU’s singular essence has been preserved. You may no longer be asked to look…

DETAILS FORMAT: PC ORIGIN: UK PUBLISHER: Mastertronic DEVELOPER: HyperSloth PRICE: £12.99 RELEASE: Out Now MINIMUM SPEC: Windows XP (SP3), Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7, Windows 8, 3.0 GHz Dual Core Processor, 4GB RAM, Shader Model 3 compliant graphics cards, DirectX 9.0c, 5GB available space PLAYERS: 1 ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A Dream is a complex beast. It comes across as a exploration game, but also flirts with puzzles, interactive narrative and even horror elements. The worlds it takes us to range from bizarre and beautiful to downright sinister or weird – and perhaps that’s why it feels so inconsistent. Players enter the mind of unemployed graduate Howard Phillips, who has a lot of negative emotions to contend with. His bed serves as a portal to a dreaming hub world from which he…

DETAILS FORMAT: Xbox One OTHER FORMATS: PS4, PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U ORIGIN: USA PUBLISHER: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild DEVELOPER: In-house PRICE: £7.99 RELEASE: Out Now PLAYERS: 1 ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A It’s rare that we get to call a puzzle game menacing, but that’s exactly the feeling we get playing The Bridge. This is a dark, twisted experience that’s attempting to do for MC Escher what Braid did for time manipulation, except even darker and moodier. For the most part it’s a success in this regard, it just lacks a little heart or a truly compelling message at its centre to compensate for its brevity. As you explore stage after stage of bendy mazes, avoiding giant stone balls that kill you instantly and grabbing keys to exit each stage,…

TOM CLANCY WAS one of the world’s most respected authors, excelling in military and espionage novels until his death in 2013. His first novel, The Hunt For Red October was released in 1984, and a videogame adaptation wasn’t too far behind, arriving in 1987. More variations of The Hunt For Red October appeared throughout the late Eighties and early Nineties, all of them using the popular Sean Connery movie as a template and all of middling quality. The fortunes of games linked to Clancy’s name changed when he co-founded Red Storm Entertainment in 1996 with Doug Littlejohns, a British Royal Navy submarine captain. Designed to capture the spirit of Clancy’s novels, early games, while experimental, typically played it safe, so Politika was a twist on the popular board game Risk,…

• THE 2007 REMAKE of Warhawk may have made the name famous again, but it had very little in common with the 1995 original, besides the obvious flying elements. A single-player campaign was mooted then dropped in favour of producing a totally online experience based around a variety of modes. Initially revealed in 2005, the game was distributed in a unique manner, with both download and physical editions available. It would be Incognito’s final release, and the studio is now defunct.…

“JAS WAS BY far the best bespectacled underage undersized over-talented entry we received when we thought it would be fun to give kids a chance to get ripped off and find fame. He still blames me for leading him astray into a lifetime of games creation, and he also claims I owe him almost a quid in unpaid royalties. I gained three lifetime friendships from the programmers I admired back them, and Jas Austin is one of them. In fact, he was one of the last men standing at my 60th birthday extravaganza a few years back.”…

How does a Japanese indie go about getting noticed in the West? Events like BitSummit [see boxout] are great places for people to learn about Access Games, the kind of things we’ve worked on – because even in Japan there is still a large number of people who don’t know about us. Also, while there are quite a few people who know about me – who I am and what I’ve done – I still want to reach out to more people, both Japanese and other nationalities, and spread the word. Japanese creators have a tendency to group only with other Japanese creators. I like to get in the middle and connect the two with each other. While there are a large number of indie creators in Japan, there is…

• There’s a fair chance that you never played the original game on PSP, so why wouldn't you want the opportunity to rectify this now that you have a PS4 and everyone remasters everything? This is a franchise that was born at the height of Monster Hunter mania so you know what to expect – four player co-op, huge beasts to slay and turn into equipment… all par for the course, really. The original was good so hopefully this remaster will deliver for anyone missing MH on PlayStation platforms.…

ANNOUNCED – Pikmin 4 It sounds as if Pikmin 4 is not only in development, but fairly close to completion! No word on whether it will release for Wii U, 3DS or the mysterious NX though, but our guess would be this is a Nintendo next-gen launch title. CANCELLED – Moonrise State Of Decay developer Undead Labs has cancelled its free-to-play creature collector Moonrise, due to lack of popularity, as it struggled through alpha on Steam. A disappointing outcome all around. MIGHTY NO. 9 Format: Multi Publisher: Deep Silver Developer: Comcept ETA: 2016 DELAYS SEEM to be going hand-in-hand with games bound for the next generation, but we can only hope it has a positive impact on Kenji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9, the spiritual successor to Mega Man. While the…

March 2052 A virus known as the New Plague breaks out, leading to the US closing its borders. April 2052 The Resource Wars begin as European Commonwealth invades the Middle East to secure oil. 2054 Vault construction begins as part of Project Safehouse. 2059 The first AI is born. 2060 Oil fields run dry, ending the European-Middle Eastern War. 23 October 2077 The Great War begins as weapons are fired by nuclear powers around the globe. It’s unclear who fired first. In Massachusetts the Sole Survivor and their family flee to Vault 111 for shelter. 2083 The ghoul city of Necropolis is founded by the survivors of Vault 12. 2091 Vault City construction begins with the Vault 8 GECK activated. 2103 The Master successfully creates the first Super Mutants having…

• A huge proportion of PC games are now sold through Steam, Valve’s digital distribution platform. It’s not only the players that are smitten with the all-conquering entity, though, developers are equally positive about the platform. “Steam has been such a game changer for us,” explains Endnight’s Terekhova. “I think without Steam finding the audience for a game like The Forest would have been really difficult. Valve has been really good to us, I can’t think of a company I’d prefer to be in charge of PC gaming.” Sean Deck of CCP shares the positivity: “Steam has had a tremendous effect on distribution and sales for games, and as long as gamers appreciate the service it will continue to play a big part in how we buy and enjoy our…

30 MINS • Hey, this is great: driving is fun, feels gritty and powerful, and the combat is actually really crunchy, like a heavier version of Batman. 10 HOURS • Is… is this it? We’ve killed Top Dogs, taken down strongholds and done loads of Story stuff… but it all feels oddly the same? ONE LOVELY DAY • Story’s done… and made very little sense. We guess we could go and pull down all the Scarecrows and kill all the snipers?…

DETAILS FORMAT: Xbox One OTHER FORMATS: PS4, Xbox 360, PS3 ORIGIN: USA PUBLISHER: EA DEVELOPER: EA Tiburon PRICE: £54.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1-4 ONLINE REVIEWED: Yes Madden 16 is an exhilarating, infuriating and nerve-wracking experience, but then so is American football when it’s at it’s best. As such, it remains a great ambassador to this incredibly dense sport and one that makes enough incremental changes each year to stay relevant. This year the changes have made it a little more complex, but the additions have added greater intensity to both attacking and defending the ball. On the surface it’s a small change, but in a sport this structured, any tweak can have a massive impact. The key to this instalment has been some important adjustments to the offensive side…

DETAILS FORMAT: PC OTHER FORMATS: PS4 ORIGIN: Sweden PUBLISHER: Frictional Games DEVELOPER: In-house PRICE: £22.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 MINIMUM SPEC: OS: Windows 7 64-bit CPU: 2.0 GHz Intel Core i3 or AMD A6 RM: 4GB Video: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M series or AMD Radeon HD 5770 (1GB RAM) HDD: 25GB ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A If you come to SOMA with a sadistic urge to spend a few hours having your heart rattled against your ribcage, you’ll leave disappointed. SOMA’s story – not the pants-filling horror we expected from Frictional Games – takes centre stage. You’re Simon Jarrett, arriving confused and scared at a research facility deep in the Atlantic Ocean. With little choice, you plunge into the darkness. Pathos-II is a joy to explore: an homage to classic sci-fi…

DETAILS FORMAT: PC OTHER FORMATS: Mac ORIGIN: UK PUBLISHER: Cranktrain DEVELOPER: In-House PRICE: £6.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 MINIMUM SPEC: Win XP, 1.66GHz dual-core, 2GB RAM ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A Sometimes the simplest games are the most satisfying to play: this is clearly a rule The Cat Machine hopes to live by, offering a solitary gameplay mechanic for its 50 or so stages. According to its intro sequence, the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not powered by gravity, but in fact by cats being flung into space. The player is in charge of repairing the flinging machine and ensuring the kitty-launching process continues. Each stage consists of a number of conveyor belts, and the player can place more belts at certain points. ‘Trains’ made of cats slide along these…

DETAILS FORMAT: Xbox One OTHER FORMATS: PS4, PC ORIGIN: Australia PUBLISHER: Uppercut Games DEVELOPER: In-house PRICE: £15.99 RELEASE: Out Now PLAYERS: 1 ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A What Submerged lacks above all other things is a deftness of touch. It brings to mind some great digital experiences like Brothers and Journey, but it doesn’t really come close to their subtle brilliance. There are none of the peaks of pure joy at discovery or some epic moment that lifts you up, nor any great troughs other than a general sense of mundanity that pervades the game. There’s just an overall lack of subtlety, from the controls, to the music, to the story-telling. We should start with the controls though, which lack weight or any sense of a physics engine dictating the flow of…

RAINBOW SIX: EAGLE WATCH YEAR: 1999 The first Rainbow Six expansion introduced four new operatives, five new campaigns, three weapons and two handy training missions. It was developed by Red Storm Entertainment. RAINBOW SIX: ROGUE SPEAR URBAN OPERATIONS YEAR: 2000 Rogue Spear’s first expansion was a good one, as it added eight new maps, as well as five classic maps from the original Rainbow Six game. RAINBOW SIX: BLACK THORN YEAR: 2001 This standalone add-on lost its tenth map due to the 11 September attacks. It also featured ten new weapons, six multiplayer maps and a new “Lone Wolf” mode. RAINBOW SIX: LONE WOLF YEAR: 2002 A sadly rather disappointing addition to the series that was exclusive to PlayStation. It introduces five new missions and an insane difficulty setting. GHOST…

• Not a company to do things by halves, Warhawk wasn’t the only iron in the fire for Sony when it launched the PlayStation in the west. Also in development at SingleTrac was vehicular combat game Twisted Metal. Released a week earlier in North America, this is perhaps one of the most iconic of the western-developed PlayStation exclusives. It marked the design debut of David Jaffe, who had previously worked as a tester and designer at Sony Imagesoft. Jaffe would later find fame as the director of the God Of War titles, while the Twisted Metal series now includes eight mainline releases and two spin-offs and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide to date. Interestingly, both Twisted Metal and Warhawk started with the same code base and were both…

GAMEBAND+ MINECRAFT MANUFACTURER: GAMEBAND PRICE: £64.99 FOR MINECRAFT PLAYERS on Mac and PC, there’s never been an easy way to transfer saves between devices – until now. The Gameband’s only purpose is to act as a mobile save point for your game worlds so that you can carry them with you, clipped to your wrist, everywhere you go. The band contains a USB 2.0 plug, as well as a small section of flash storage; simply plug in the band, open the app that is stored on it, and follow the instructions. Theband itself contains the Minecraft save, so you can boot it directly (although you will need to sign in with your own account to play), and after the set-up, all of your worlds will be added to the band…

STAR FOX ZERO HAS BEEN DELAYED FROM A 2015 RELEASE TO Q1 2016 REPORTS CLAIM KONAMI HAS SUSPENDED ALL TRIPLE-A GAME DEVELOPMENT SAVE FOR PRO EVO LONG LOST BANDAI NAMCO TITLE NI-OH HAS BEEN RESURRECTED AS A PS4 EXCLUSIVE REVEALED AT TGS MASS EFFECT AND KOTOR WRITER DREW KARPYSHYN HAS RETURNED TO BIOWARE AFTER FOUR YEARS AWAY SONY’S VR HEADSET, PROJECT MORPHEUS, HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN RENAMED PLAYSTATION VR OVER ONE MILLION LEVELS WERE MADE IN SUPER MARIO MAKER IN ONLY ITS FIRST WEEK ON SALE…

• EARLIER THIS YEAR, BitSummit – Japan’s largest indie games event – was held in Kyoto. Although still in its infancy, the show is showing healthy growth despite something odd that stands out: there is a huge presence from smaller Western developers. While expanding diversity is always welcome, the reality that Japanese indies were at risk of being outnumbered at home does lend some weight to Swery’s comments about wanting to see more Japanese developers get their faces out there and do their own thing, rather than aspire towards (less secure than for previous generations) corporate careers. Interestingly, a lot of the Japanese developers in attendance were selling physical copies of their work, and not the ironically-packaged-as-a-retro-game kind of physical copies.…

For quite some time now a debate has gone back and forth: is eSports a sport? Up until now I have refrained from commenting, as it matters not a jot even if you do overlook the rather large clue to be found in the ‘e’. However, I never thought I would witness an eSports organisation label the industry they are supposed to be pioneering as nothing more than a “product”. For me, the moment you take all the passion and drive out of your sport and class it as nothing more than a “product” designed to deliver healthy profit margins to shareholders, that's the moment the dreams of a new horizon in our industry dies. The players, teams and games are stripped of their importance with crazy formats, schedules and…

Much like the series as a whole, Fallout 4 is a game that straddles the past and future, which may go some way to explain the mixed reaction it seems to be getting from some quarters. It’s a game that’s bridging the gap between one of the experiences of the last generation, and a new era of hardware that has yet to fully establish its identity. And it is somewhat ironic that a series that has always warned of the repetitious nature of history when it says ‘War, war never changes’, should find itself once again having to convince fans that it has what it takes to deliver the Fallout experience the hardcore expect. Looking back now, it seems ludicrous that anyone would have doubted Fallout 3, but that was…

Vault 12 LOCATION Bakersfield, California EXPERIMENT Study the effects of radiation exposure by not allowing the Vault door to close. RESULT A new race, known as ghouls, is created through mutation as a result of radiation exposure. The city of Necropolis is formed on the site. Vault 21 LOCATION Las Vegas, Nevada EXPERIMENT Vault inhabited by compulsive gamblers with all conflicts resolved with games of chance. RESULT Vault taken over by Robert House after winning a game of blackjack, converted into hotel and casino for inhabitants of New Vegas. Vault 42 LOCATION Unknown EXPERIMENT No light bulbs in the Vault were over 40 watts, meaning inhabitants lived in permanent low-light. This would likely lead to eyes adjusting to the conditions, but the psychological effects would also be tested. RESULT Unknown…

League Of Legends year selling new champions (which can be earned through play) or alternate skins (which can’t). • As the most popular game – and that’s including retail purchases – League Of Legends makes hundreds of millions each Dota 2 • Valve offers its playable characters for free but created a system of community-made customisation options that can be bought, as well as Compendiums that fund its International Tournament prize fund. World Of Tanks • The popularity of World Of Tanks still feels like something of a surprise to many, but its approach to free-to-play – whereby players can purchase ‘premium’ features – means it rakes in a rather large sum each month. Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft • It was recently revealed that Hearthstone makes roughly $20 million each…

Rocket League had over 100,000 concurrent players at its peak, and it managed to smash through the five million downloads mark on PSN – one of the first games to do so this generation. We spoke to Psyonix Studio’s vice president, Jeremy Dunham, about how you balance a game for pro players and casuals alike, the importance of PS+, and how it feels to be gaming’s very own feel good hit of the summer… Rocket League has been immensely popular, but a lot of people aren’t aware Psyonix Studios already released a similar game beforehand – Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. What is it about Rocket League that’s made it so much more popular? I don’t think it’s any one thing – it’s a combination of things that really…

DETAILS FORMAT: PC ORIGIN: Australia PUBLISHER: 5 Lives Studios DEVELOPER: In-house PRICE: £22.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 MINIMUM SPEC: 2.4GHz Dual Core CPU, 3GB RAM, 1GB GPU, 2GB HDD space ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A You’ve got to respect the courage it takes to create a spiritual successor to one of PC gaming’s most beloved names. Even more so, you’ve got to respect 5 Lives Studios’ decision to modernise Syndicate’s classic gameplay, since one ever-so-slight misstep and the game could be deemed a failure. Rejoice, then, because Satellite Reign is far from it. The core premise is the same, of course. You’re an eye-in-the-sky commander, issuing commands to any number of four cybernetically-enhanced clones as you potter about a cyberpunk world taking on corporations. For genre fans there’s plenty to drool…

DETAILS FORMAT: PC ORIGIN: Indonesia PUBLISHER: Digital Tribe Games DEVELOPER: Ekuator Games PRICE: £9.99 RELEASE: Out Now PLAYERS: 1 MINIMUM SPEC: Windows 7/8, Intel Core i3 2.1GHz processor or AMD equivalent, 2GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 graphics card, DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A You might be prepared to indulge Celestian Tales for its nostalgia value and lovely hand-drawn art, and that’s not a bad thing. The visuals are some of its best assets: impactful character imagery that captures heroes’ and villains’ souls, as text dialogue fills up the coloured boxes below them. Celestian Tales shares its story between six heroes, all with their ulterior motives and desires. Each character gets a tailored prologue sequence, after which they team up for a campaign centred on their quest to…

DETAILS FORMAT: PC OTHER FORMATS: Mac ORIGIN: Germany PUBLISHER: Headup Games DEVELOPER: Gentlymad PRICE: £8.99 RELEASE: Out now PLAYERS: 1 MINIMUM SPEC: Win 7, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM ONLINE REVIEWED: N/A In Between is the latest in the current trend of narrative 2D platform games that use its stages as a backdrop for a much deeper story than the likes of Mario and Earthworm Jim ever encountered. In this case the story’s protagonist is diagnosed with cancer and so the player takes a journey through his head, visiting his memories and feelings. The game’s core mechanic is the ability to flip gravity in four different directions. Your character can’t jump, he can only walk left and right along the plane he’s on, so a combination of positioning…

SELECT GAMEOGRAPHY Rex (1988) Programmer R-Type (1991) Programmer Constantine (2005) Programmer What was the first game you played? I was friends with Mel Croucher and Christian Penfold [Automata] as they were based near me. I saw an advert for their games and thought they looked fun, so went and knocked on their door and asked if I could buy a game, Can Of Worms. They said no, because I was too young as it was an 18 game. I was a bit upset, so Mel said ‘Come back with your mum and if she says it’s alright you can have it’. So I went back with my Mum and she said it was fine. It wasn’t even that bad, although in one of the games you had to pee into…

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG The Sonic template was studied closely when making Crash, but Naughty Dog wanted to move the camera behind the main character rather than have it side-on. TASMANIAN ANIMALS When researching mascot characters, one of the artists bought in a field guide to Tasmanian animals – Crash Bandicoot could easily have been a wombat. PINKY AND THE BRAIN Main antagonist Neo Cortex was to be a ‘more malevolent’ Brain in the game, obsessed with minions, with N. Brio acting more like Pinky.…

8-BIT • Celebrate gaming’s roots with this retro tee – featuring icons from gaming’s past. Whatever you played as a kid, whether it was Pac-Man or Zelda, thisshirt will help you represent the greats of games past. www.threadless.com MAJORA’S MASK LADIES’ TANK TOP • This one is so simple that for an unknowing onlooker it may be mistaken for a meaningless design. For those in the know, however, it’s a great way to show your love for a classic. www.thinkgeek.com POKÉ HOUSE • Teefury is known for mixing multiple genres or franchises together, and that’s exactly what the artist of this shirt does, bringing a distinctly Snoopy vibe to Pikachu’s ball-based home. We’d say it’s a good match. www.teefury.com…