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Super Meat Boy character select screen reveals playable Alien Hominid [update]

by Ben Gilbert on Jul 5th 2009 7:00PM

Things are on the up and up for Super Meat Boy developer Edmund McMillen. After releasing This is a Cry for Help last year and subsequently announcing SMB for WiiWare, he put his indie cred on display for the world in adding Braid's Tim to his upcoming game. And now, during a live video interview with Bytejacker, McMillen ~~revealed~~ The Behemoth's Alien Hominid as another playable character!

Quickly panning to his computer screen during the interview and teasing it, one of our wonderful readers snagged a screen grab so we could share it with the world. Now the real question: Castle Crashers characters playable as well? Hmmmm, McMillen? Hmmm?

(We love you. Please?)

Update: It was pointed out by a few astute Game Informer readers in the comments section that Alien Hominid was actually revealed as a playable character in a recent issue. Sorry, folks!

(Thanks, Zack!)

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Tags: alien-hominid, Alien-Hominid-XBLA, braid, bytejacker, castle-crashers, edmund-mcmillen, Microsoft, Microsoft-Game-Studios, Nintendo, super-meat-boy, the-behemoth, this-is-a-cry-for-help, Wii, wiiware, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (25)

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Edmund McMillen is a good friend of Tom Fulp (Creator of NG and part of Behemoth) and a respected user of the NG Community so I hope for some NG Related Characters.

salad fingers?

I am hoping for more NG defining Characters like Tankmen or P-bot.

Pico.

tankmen would be awesome.

Cool :D

Awesome like Castle Crashers? Soo you'll spend time unlocking all these cool characters then the game will just erase all your progress for now reason... Sounds dope. =P

f'in castle crashers!! Ugh!

SMB still = Super Mario Bros

:(

Indeed. Only when Super Meat Boy surpasses Super Mario Brothers in sales and quality, then I'll say it that way =p

So what you're saying is that it has no chance seeing as how Super Mario Bros. sales was 40 Million+... only game to top it was Wii Sports. I guess we could use SMeB.

heheh.
smeeeeb.

lol. smeeeeb

Its an American Indie game Smash Bros!

Not to be a party pooper, but wasn't Alien Hominid announced as a playable character quite a while back?

Yes. Yes it was.

It was revealed by Game Informer a little while ago, apparently. Not sure how we missed it! Thanks for the catch and sorry about that. I've added an update to the post and all that good stuff. Still totally sweet? Yes. Yes it is.

A slightly off topic comment, Is there any more info on the behemoth's crying sugarcube leprechaun game ?

I thought Microsoft had some rights to Braid...

The game is on Mac's I think. And I heard something about Blow looking in to a PS3 port.

release date??

never heard about this game before, any info on how it plays or when abouts it will be about? cuz with tim and AH im so down for this game already.

I don't see why wouldn't at least the blue knight from Castle Crashers wouldn't be playable. He IS on the flash version after all. (just fix the blue blood, it's weird :P)

Was announced well over a month ago on their blog lol: http://supermeatboy.blogspot.com/. If you're going to make announcements regarding this one, you might wanna just check that out every so often.

So, two (sort of) XBLA characters in a WiiWare game? What's that about?

It's about both characters actually being on several platforms now. XBLA is actually one of the last platforms Alien Hominid appeared on, and Braid has spread out to the PC and Mac at least (but yeah, not to a Nintendo platform).

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