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We’re pleased to announce the addition of the ‘Ryu, A True Warrior’ T-shirt on the KyozoKicks store. The Ryu design marks the 6th addition to the expanding range of T-shirts on offer. Inspired by the now iconic movements from the 1991 arcade classic, Street Fighter II.

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These Nike Dunks will be given away, free, to one random purchase of the KyozoKicks Liberty City inspired T-shirt. Click for more Info

Bring up the topic of Grand Theft Auto to me and understand we shall discuss it ad nauseam. During the release of Grand Theft Auto Vice City in 2002 I remember sitting in the back of class when the topic of Grand Theft Auto came up in hushed tones, We started discussing our shared experiences in Vice City until we were talking about wholly unique experiences we were having with the game, this was a first. Slowly our conversation radiated throughout the class till, as far as myself and many of my peers were concerned, the lesson was abandoned.

Rockstar Games has been able to provide us with in worlds that feel real, that we invest our time into and it feels rewarding to occupy them  (I’m not alone in being able to navigate Liberty City better than my home town). Rockstar provided us with a Playground in Liberty City and it is that which I consider to be the true star of Grand Theft Auto IV. I tip my hat to it here.

Liberty City skyline wraps around the heels of the shoes, a view of Rotterdam Tower and Statue of Happiness [above]

The inside and outside of the panels list different boroughs/areas found throughout Liberty City [Below] Which ties the design together with the T-shirt I designed.

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Next stop? Let’s Press the Issue, Maurice.

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Every purchase made before 07/12/2012 will go into a draw to win the custom Liberty City Nike Dunks. The Nike Dunks will be delivered to the winner free of charge. Each T-shirt bought counts as one entry into the draw. Winner chosen via random draw. I regret that I am unable deliver the shoes to a PO BOX address.

My intention is for this to be a quality product with care and consideration being put into each step. The T-shirts themselves are 100% preshrunk cotton with the screen printing itself being handled by the artisans at Mission Print who have almost two decades in the business. I’m against inflated shipping costs as a consumer so on my store there are no shipping costs, worldwide.

Would you like to own these shoes? I’m giving them away! Find out more by clicking here.

SSX Tricky is a perfect game. Now I know, stating anything as a perfect game on the internet is grounds for a physical altercation, but hear me out. As far as what SSX Tricky intends to be, a fun, fast, easy to use / hard to master snowboarding game it is a perfect title, it did it bigger and better than any snowboarding title that preceded it and still my snowboard game of choice over a decade on. In the research of the custom SSX Tricky Nike Dunks I gladly replayed through the entire campaign once again and any imperfections that  begin to cloud a game 12 years on from its release quickly quickly fade as the count down begins before your first race, suddenly your hurling down a mountain with a real sense of speed, the environments are filled with colour and detail, your opponents are alive, animated and a challenge, you carve out turns and fly through the air with rhythm, perfect.

Carrying on from my ongoing project of designing a custom pair of Nike Dunks and accompanying T-shirt around my favourite games from the late 80′s till present day (beginning with the Uncharted : Drake’s Deception Nike Dunks) It is with fond memories that I turn my attention to SSX Tricky. I knew this would be an opportunity to go crazy with the colour palette. My previous pair were dark, with various shades of brown and I wanted do a total reversal of that here. SSX Tricky is over the top, in your face and fun. To make the shoes anything but would be an insult.

For those of you unsure of what goes into a custom pair of Nike Dunks and how durable they are let me quickly bring you up to speed. I begin by stripping the paint from the store bought shoe in its entirety down to the bare leather, this is a long, uneventful task but a necessary one. Next the design is hand painted using an acrylic paint especially made to bond to leather. The outcome is a custom, one off piece of footwear unlike anything you are likely to see on store shelves. They can be worn like any other shoe too. You can wear them in the rain, kick footballs in them, jump in puddles, I highly recommend doing all these activities in them in fact.

Thanks for checking out the shoes guys, check back in a couple of weeks for a new pair of custom shoes!

A clue for the next Custom Nike Dunk and T-shirt? Put this on your stereo.

You can buy the T-shirt from the KyozoKicks store HERE. 

Every purchase made before 05/18/2012 will go into a draw to win the custom SSX Tricky Nike Dunks. The Nike Dunks will be delivered with your order free of charge. Orders will begin shipping on the 05/18/2012. If you would like your T-shirt ASAP and do not want to enter the competition, just let me know in the comments section of your order. Each T-shirt bought counts as one entry into the draw. Winner chosen via random draw. I regret that I cannot deliver the shoes to a PO BOX address.

To accompany the custom Nike Dunks celebrating the fantastic SSX Tricky I’ve designed a T-shirt based on one of the games most fondly remembered circuits. SSX Tricky’s Tokyo Megaplex did away with the idea that a snowboarding game had to take place down the side of a mountain. Instead we were treated  to  sensory overload, where we screamed down impossibly long candy cane rails, flung through the sky on columns of air and cursed seemingly impossible obstacles. Although 12 years on from its release I still encounter enthusiasm for SSX Tricky among gamers. Deservedly so.

My intention is for this to be a quality product with care and consideration being put into each step. The T-shirts themselves are 100% preshrunk cotton with the screen printing itself being handled by the artisans at Mission Print who have almost two decades in the business. I hate inflated shipping costs as a consumer so on my store there are no shipping costs, worldwide.

I hope you all enjoy the T-shirt!

Check back next month for another T-Shirt as well as another pair of custom Nike Dunks to accompany it.

You can buy the T-shirt from the KyozoKicks store HERE. 

You can buy the T-shirt from the KyozoKicks store HERE. 

Designed by KyozoKicks to celebrate one of, if not the, finest 3 consecutive game franchises released by a single developer. Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter and most recently, the adventures of Nathan Drake in Uncharted. I have played and loved each game (a timeline of games which now spans over 15 years).

My intention is for this to be a quality product with care and consideration being put into each step. The T-shirts themselves are 100% preshrunk cotton with the screen printing itself being handled by the artisans at Mission Print who have almost two decades in the business.

I hope you all enjoy the T-shirt!

Check back next month for another T-Shirt as well as another pair of custom Nike Dunks to accompany it.

What praise can be put upon Naughty Dog and the Uncharted franchise that we haven’t heard before. Almost universally praised by fans and the media as well as dozens of industry awards (including 4 BAFTA awards for Uncharted 2 : Among Thieves). What I won’t hesitate to say is that I’m really happy these guys are in the business of making games. I don’t say that flippantly, as a fan of Naughty Dog since Crash Bandicoot and of hearing Richard Lemarchand (one of the lead designers on the last 2 Uncharted games) discuss Naughty Dogs approach to what video games are and what they could be at last years GameCity festival, I truly believe nobody else could have made Uncharted but Naughty Dog. Naughty Dog appear to march to a different beat creatively, as their own Neil Druckmann put it, they’re out to “Change the f***king industry”.

Whilst Uncharted might seem wildly different to the Naughty Dog games which preceded it, upon closer inspection you begin to see the sparks of inspiration in the early games that would come to shine in Uncharted : Drake’s Deception. Moments such as the dynamic shifts in perspective during the Crash Bandicoot games are still a signature of the Naughty Dogs, now instead of a more convenient angle at which to collect apples the players perspective is switched to add emphasis to jumps and vistas. The genuine bond and friendship between Nathan Drake and Sully builds upon what they were doing with the relationship of Jak and Daxter  2001, their games are undoubtably better today because of the games that came before it.

Naughty Dog then are building on a good thing. Since the start of KyozoKicks in 2009 I have been patiently waiting to do an Uncharted piece and I hope you enjoy it. inspired by Uncharted : Drakes Deception, the separate panels of the shoe depict various pages from the journal Drake carries with him throughout the adventure. The aged and weathered brown leather that covers the rest of the shoe mirrors the gun holster that drake has worn throughout each game. The rear of the shoes carries the horsehoe design found on his beltbuckle.

Come back next month for another custom pair of Nike Dunks based off of some of our favorite video games. A clue for next month?  Well, call your mama in the room and show her how great you are! 

But enthusiasm is for nothing without a competent execution. To assess how well Awesomenauts does as a game, we have to understand what it is. Described as a MOBA (an acronym of Multi-player Online Battle Arena) Players are, at the beginning of each round split into two teams of three players and set against each other, battling it out to destroy opponents turrets (whilst defending their own) to gain control of the map and ultimately, overthrow the opposing team. The familiarity to players of PC games such as League of Legends or DOTA should be immediate. Indeed this is no mistake on Ronimos part, the intention is to bring that very experience over the console. Here, the tried and tested game formula has been tweaked, streamlined and wrapped in personality.

Visually, the game appears to be a direct descendant of the 16-bit SEGA Mega-drive/Genesis games of my youth. The way it plays and feels is immediately familiar, the 2D Saturday morning cartoon visuals, the humor, even the 8 way shooting mechanic sparks feelings of nostalgia. A feeling that I can’t quite grasp until I hear Robin Meijer, Awesomenauts Producer on hand at Eurogamer Expo, mention Earthworm Jim and like that it all clicks. As far as inspiration goes, I know these guys are looking in all the right places

Awesomenauts wants desperately to engage you, constantly. From the moment you decide to begin playing there is little opportunity to so much as look away from the screen. The usual lobby system has all but been removed, instead if other players cannot be found at the moment you start playing, the level will be populated with AI players. An online drop in, drop out system is then employed, replacing the AI characters with human counterparts when they become available. At the beginning of each new round all players experience points are reset to level one (a departure from the usual ongoing level up mechanic console players are use to in games such as Call of Duty or Red Dead Redemption). Currency, or in this case ‘Solar’, is gained through your actions during the battle which, in turn, can then be used mid-game to upgrade your avatar along an entire tree of upgrades. In one game you might increase your move list, in another depending on how the game is playing out, you may want to increase your overall health or the damage you dish out with each attack. Things are kept interesting and at the end of the match your characters strengths and weaknesses may be the complete reverse of how you decided to upgrade that same character during the previous match. The re-spawn screen has also quietly been done away with, the short wait time between you meeting your demise and reentering the battle becomes a mini game of sorts, to collect more solar, to spend in game, to upgrade your character. Engaging you, constantly.

Awesomenauts ace in the sleeve is undoubtably its social or cooprative appeal. Get yourself and two friends together on a sofa and you have a full team ready to go. With the screen split into four (the HUD elements are moved to the forth, bank square for easier viewing) Awesomenauts then takes your team online to blend together both local and online gaming. With multiple characters to choose from, each with very different abilities and benefits, real strategy can be implemented. Because you are playing actual players online rather than AI opponents the challenge of each game will differ in how you work as a team. I expect the experience of a group of friends playing this game together, deciding when to push forward or to pull back, who will upgrade and how, will bring a smile to many faces.

And that’s where game ultimately succeeds, it’s fun. It’s fun when I play the game by myself and that feeling is only amplified by how many other people are playing too.

Awesomenauts.

Release Date : TBC
Developer : Ronimo
Platform : Xbox 360 & Playstation 3
Publisher : dtp Entertainment AG
Pricing : TBC

Note : KyozoKicks played a version of Awesomnauts currently in BETA and as such should not be considered a review of the final product. Approximately 2 hours was spent with the title.