Microscopics

Another woah! for Osmos and Hemisphere; Osmos has won the Apple Design Award 2011!
There were twelve winners, just three in each category of iPhone, Mac, Student and iPad, which was Osmos’ category.
Eddy from Hemisphere attended to pick up his award of Apple hardware and metallic cuboid that glows when you touch it. We look forward to seeing [...]

I heard the sad news that Martin Rushent has died aged just 63. I was just looking up info about him a few days ago. Producer and remixer from 1970s to 2011. He was responsible for the production on Dare, The Human League’s album from 1981, and was the first album I bought. It’s still [...]

A night of fine musical and shopping entertainment in aid of The British Red Cross for Japan Appeal.
Sat 9 April at 8pm
upstairs at Spanky Van Dyke
17 Goldsmith Street,
Nottingham,
England.
DJ’s on the night include: Charles Webster, Chris Duckenfield, Inland Knights, Paul Wain… and more special guests to be confirmed.…and…the venue has a very nice Funktion One sound [...]

From today and the next two weeks 100% of music sales on our site will go to the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund. Every single penny of your money will go to Japan including any PayPal fees and expenses we incur.
As normal, 24bit FLACs and CDs include the 1:8 scale Minimoog model, although we [...]

6th Planet app free draw, here are the winners who each get a copy…

Martin Wood
DrWig – visit his site for some excellent and free ambisonic VST plugins for Mac and PC.
Neil Allen
Many thanks to all fellow anthropoids and humanoids who added a comment, may the random numbers be in your favour next time.
Available now on [...]

What a year Osmos has had! No1 in the iOS App Store and Apple’s iPad Game of the Year(!) as well as the PC/Mac/Linux version selling 250,000 copies in a week in the Humble Indie Bundle just before Christmas.

Hemisphere Games, the creators of Osmos, have posted some of the end of year awards it has [...]

Posted on MickKarn.net

24th July 1958 – 4th January 2011
It’s with profound sadness that we have to inform you that Mick finally lost his battle with cancer and passed away peacefully at 4.30pm today, 4th January 2011 at home in Chelsea, London. He was surrounded by his family and friends and will be deeply missed by [...]

Paul Frankland (Woob) sent me this sneak peek for his new Max & Harvey animated film project coming later this year…

Max and Harvey – Silk (Trailer)
It’s a trailer for an animated 7.5 minute feature film, Silk, due out soon. Now that’s what I call widescreen.
Two dogs, two choices, two very different adventures… Can’t wait.

Five great games, pay what you want. Osmos along with Braid, Machinarium, Cortex Command, Revenge of the Titans and the High Skies EP, is part of the sequel to the Humble Indie Bundle! There are a ton of amazing things about this bundle (pay what you want, supporting charity, etc. etc.), but the best – and [...]

Earlier this week temperatures approached DX7 territory; so I took a few frostbite pics of the snow and ice outside of Microscopics HQ. Warning for those still living in 2001, some images may take a few seconds to load.
One large Wordpress problem is that any image it scales down become very blurred, as below (grr), so [...]