Nintendo President Iwata and game design overlord of our hearts Miyamoto played World of Goo last week - and they liked it! Today, Iwata mentioned it as a part of a presentation in Japan - here’s a translated text version and video (our little mention is at 29:00)

We are honored they even know we exist. Thanks, as always, to Dan and Tom at Nintendo!

Tycho of Penny Arcade wrote some nice things about World of Goo (thanks Tycho!) and we got an influx of pre-orders, which is fantastic, except that for each pre-order we sent a confirmation email with download instructions and our hosting provider seems to have mistaken us for a spammer. We’re working to fix this, so if you haven’t received your confirmation email yet, please be patient, you shall have it soon, we promise. A big thank you to everyone who pre-ordered!!!

[Update: We have restored our dignity with our hosting provider and everyone who pre-ordered should have gotten a confirmation email from us. If you pre-ordered and haven’t, let me know. If you paid with an e-check it takes a few days to clear, which means the confirmation will be delayed. - Ron]

What a fun week, indie developers are elusive little suckers, so we tried to collect-em-all in photos. Some of them got away. Here are the ones that didn’t.

IGF 2008, Year of the Monocle. Edmund McMillen’s unmistakable silhouette looks on.

Cactus just made 4 games in the time it took to take this picture. Joakim Sandberg, retro hero on the right, Kyle Gabler surrounded by Sweden.

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Our hearts swell with goo for those of you who have pre-ordered World of Goo so far! As soon as we can figure out how the the spam opt-in-mass-emailing technology works, we’ll be sending out preview copies of Chapter 1 today (where “today” is in pacific standard time, you Australians in the future!) to our beloved pre-orderers and those who pre-order in the next few days. So stay tuned, and keep a lookout, quite likely in your spam folder. If you still don’t get the email by tomorrow, check back here and demand goo!

ps. Also, audisurf is released for real, not just a valentine’s preview - go ride daft punk!

The good news is we’re very close to getting all the publishing stuff taken care of. The bad news is that for marketing purposes the publishing stuff requires us to release the game on PC and Wii at the same time. That means the PC version will not release on February 14 as planned. We’ll announce a new release date as soon as we can.

Pre-orders will still get the game a week or so early and get the first chapter of the game on February 14 as an extra token of Valentine’s love.

Just a few quick notes:

1. World of Goo will be going into beta in about a week. Huge thanks to everyone who pre-ordered the game and volunteered to help beta test it!

2. There’s a preview of World of Goo written by Kieron Gillen on eurogamer.net

3. There’s a 2D Boy interview up on gamasutra.com