World of Goo just launched on WiiWare in Japan a few hours ago, we hope you like it, Japan! If you’re curious, you can play with the beautiful site Nintendo of Japan made for us. Some astute readers noticed that in Japan, we’re calling it “Planet of Goo” whenever an English text version of the title is shown. World of Goo Corporation would like to remind you that Planet of Goo Corporation is just another name for the same great taste.

Wow, I think everyone was a little floored when they saw this clay animated World of Goo video:

Photos of her constructing the set here.  Contest page with more entries is here. Commenters are calling this the early winner, agree?

Oh man. Just when you thought Fisty the Snow Frog had melted. Below are some early video entries in the Life Imitating Goo contest. (complete list and more info here)

Click each image below for video:

Little Miss World of Goo power generator. Her eyes actually glow!

Stop-Motion - fully animated, they even got the giant octopus we removed from the game!

Fisty what’s over there anyway?

Blustery Day solved using the cheat solution, thanks guys

World of Goo cake!

1. World of Goo won in the Best Downloadable Game category at the Game Developer Choice Awards last night!  It was a marvelous end to an incredible year for us.  World of Goo was up against four fantastic indie games: Braid, Castle Crashers, N+, and Pixeljunk Eden.  My hat off to Jonathan, David, everyone at The Behemoth, Raigan, Mare, and the guys at Slick, and Dylan and Q Games.  You guys are amazing.

2. A bunch of people have asked for the slides I used in my IGS session, so here they are. Some of the slides don’t make a lot of sense without my commentary, so if you’re interested in this stuff I recommend you check out the video recording of this session when it becomes available (I was told it would be made freely available online soon).

3. World of Goo is part of the MacHeist 3 bundle, which is promotion running for another 12 days.  In total, 12 Mac apps for $39 and 25% of your purchase price goes to the charity of your choice (Action Against Hunger, AIDS Research Alliance, Alliance for Climate Protection, Direct Relief International, Humane Society International, The Nature Conservancy, Save the Children, Save Darfur, Prevent Cancer Foundation, World Wildlife Fund).