Check Out These Award-Winning 8-Bit T-Shirts

The winners of WeLoveFine’s 8-bit design contest have been chosen. A panel of judges including Harmonix art director Ryan Lesser and IGN’s own beard-in-chief Casey Lynch picked ten of the best designs, and WeLoveFine has announced that all of the shirts are available for purchase!

Check out the winning designs below, and head over to WeLoveFine’s site to see all the honorable mentions. Click any shirt to head to WeLoveFine’s store. Links lead to men’s sizes, but click to the right of any shirt to purchase the women’s size.

Grand Prize: “Time Lines” by Drew Wise ($1,000 winner)

Casey’s Pick: "Aliens & Ladders" by Julien Bazinet ($400 winner)

Ryan’s Pick: "Ash Housewares" by Andrew Helms ($400 winner)

Runner-Up: "Select Your Avenger" by Julien Bazinet ($150 winner)

Runner-Up: "JRPG Battle" by Massimo Marsan ($150 winner)

Again, head over to WeLoveFine’s site to see all the honorable mentions as well as the other entries, and if you’re interested in awesome gaming shirts, be sure to check out the IGN Store as well!

Andrew Goldfarb is IGN’s associate news editor. Keep up with pictures of the latest food he’s been eating by following him on Twitter or IGN.

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PS3 Exclusive Retro/Grade Gets A Release Date

Over three years ago, we first informed you of a PlayStation Network exclusive called Retro/Grade. Under development at 24 Caret Games, Retro/Grade caught the eye of the judges at the Independent Games Festival in 2009, being nominated for two awards before falling off the radar until the next year, when we played it. But since then, all’s been quiet.

That is, until now. Retro/Grade finally has a release date for the PlayStation Network in North America. Look for it on Tuesday, August 21st. It’s release date in other territories is still unknown.

If you’re unfamiliar with Retro/Grade, co-founder of 24 Caret Games, Matt Gilgenbach, describes it like this. “[Retro/Grade is] similar to a classic Shoot ‘Em Up… in reverse! At the beginning of the game you stop a massive alien invasion, but all the destruction damages the space/time continuum, causing the flow of time itself to reverse. What would have been the final boss is actually the beginning of your backwards journey. You must help Rick Rocket restore the continuity of space/time, before the temporal anomaly rips the universe a new time-hole!”

This “mind-bending rhythm-based” game can be played with either a guitar peripheral or your standard PlayStation 3 DualShock controller. Its price, according to Gilgenbach, “hasn’t been quite finalized yet even this close to release.”

Colin Moriarty is an IGN PlayStation editor. You can follow him on Twitter and IGN and learn just how sad the life of a New York Islanders and New York Jets fan can be.

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