No further Brutal Legend DLC planned

Brutal Legend designer Tim Schafer has clarified to a fan via his Twitter page that there’s no further Brutal Legend downloadable content currently in development. Unfortunately this means an end to hopes that there’ll be an extension of the single-player story (unless there’s a sequel).

Of course, don’t forget to check out the existing two DLC packs if you haven’t already:

1. Tears of the Hextagon
2. Hammer of Infinite Fate

Brutal Legend faces smorgasbord of awards

If you love Brutal Legend, you’d better be hoping it wins the bunch of Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award nominations it’s up for next week! As Double Fine Action News points out, the game’s in the running for the following:

• Outstanding Achievement in Original Story
• Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack
• Outstanding Character Performance (Eddie Riggs)
• Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year

Yeah! And if that wasn’t enough, it’s also up for the ‘Best Audio’ and ‘Best Writing’ Game Developers Choice Awards, and a BAFTA award for ‘Story’.

Wish Double Fine luck! I mean they shouldn’t need it, but you know how gamers are with their Modern Battlefield 2 and Uncrafted 2.

Update

[February 19th, 2010 at 10:13am GMT] A victory for good taste! Brutal Legend has picked up the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences awards for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Soundtrack’ and ‘Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year’. Nicely done, Double Fine!

Brutal Legend and cake: the perfect combo

Dedicated mum Barbarann Garrard gave her son a 10th birthday to remember a couple of days ago when she presented him with a cake of epic metal proportions. Although not a professional cake decorator and having been doing it as a hobby for just a year, clearly the results are excellent!

Weighing 70 pounds and standing 32 inches tall, this thing ought to be put in a museum — especially when you consider that she spent an impressive 70-80 hours on its fine craftmanship. The only problem with making awesome cakes is the need to eat them!

Check out the gallery below, and go even further down if you want to read the creator’s detailing of the cake’s finer features.

A technical run-through by Barbarann

“The cake was very big, it weighed in at 70 lbs and was 32″ tall. I made EVERYTHING on that cake and everything is edible and/or made of edible materials & handpainted or airbrushed with edible food dyes.. (with the exception of some dowels for support on both the cake and some of the elements on the cake , and some wires were used to insert the letters for the words & a few other elements )

“Eddie Riggs was made of modeling chocolate mostly, (and gumpaste/fondant ).. and hand painted with edible dyes..

“Clementine is gumpaste and fondant (with wires for strings, and a thin wooden dowel for support)
the Axe ( the seperater ) is gumpaste, and has a small wooden dowel….

“Other elements such as Ormagoddon and the flowers ( home made stencil also ) that look like little hands making the “rock on” gesture,

“The lettering ( again, a home made stencil) that says “Happy 10th Birthday Jakob” ( my son), and the “exhaust pipe tree”, are all gumpaste and fondant.

“The spikes along the bottom two tiers are solid chocolate poured into some molds, then painted with edible luster dust,

“The chain, on the 3rd tier up, is made out of fondant and pressed from a home-made mold.

“The flames were cut from gumpaste using a home-made stencil , then airbrushed with edible dye.

“The coprse pile is rice cereal treat covered in chocolate , then tiny chocolates poured into the shapes of various bones and skulls were pressed on top..though, some chocolates were carved into the right shapes because I didnt have molds for some of the desired shapes.

“Next, fondant was layed over the top and shaped and formed around the chocolates under it, then airbrushed.

“The cross and sword are a combination of chocolate and fondant that have been airbrushed.

“The amps are made of rice cereal treat, covered in fondant and then handpainted ( although I put a Marshall logo , instead of Mitt E. Watt , which is what they have on them on the game… )

“This cake took between 70-80 hours total or me to complete ( right in my home kitchen.)

“And my son loved it!”

Brutal Legend characters rock up Ümloud

If supporting the most successful gaming-orientated charity in the world wasn’t good enough reason to be at this year’s Ümloud, getting to see a bunch of Brutal Legend characters performing Judas Priest’s ‘The Hellion/Electric Eye’ certainly was!

If you were there you’d have seen Eddie Riggs (Josh Rishardson), the Killmaster (Ash Aiwase), Drowned Ophelia (Ashley Farmer), and the Guardian of Metal (Gabe Roland) — in addition to Mangus (Skot York) who’s said to have been vital for moral/technical support.

As well as Brian Haberer’s superb photos, there’re two videos of the performance up on YouTube:

1. Blimp cam
2. Front-on extreme headbanging edition

Now this is a charity I can get behind.

Second DLC announced: ‘Hammer of Infinite Fate’

See, I knew Schafer’s comment during that interview the other day was a ploy. Turns out he had a massive bag of DLC sat under his desk, which has now been unveiled as due for release on December 17th.

Brutal Legend’s second pack of downloadable content is called ‘Hammer of Infinite Fate’ and includes the following substantial additions:

• Three outfits for Eddie: Black Metal, Mountain Man, and Zaulia Threads
• Seven back patches
• New paint for the Deuce
• The ‘Oculus of the Lost’, which operates like a GPS and points out the locations of the world’s bound sepeants and legends
• Three new weapons: the Coiling Maw, Disgorger, and Eye of Sorrow
• New Achievements and Trophies
• Four multiplayer maps: Altar of Blood, Amplified Cliffs, Coiled Remains, and Crucible of the Titans

So quite a bit for those still enjoying the single-player campaign, and of course you can presumably take your goodies online — although unfortunately there’re no new story quests.

If you fancy that lot, it’ll be on Xbox LIVE for 480 Microsoft Points and PlayStation Network for about $4.99 in just over a week. Thanks to Super-Munkyboy for pointing me towards Destructoid’s post about this!