Time to give Gandhi a rest Via RPS, The University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk has released a mod for Civilization V called Superintelligence, which adds some artificial intelligence options to the late-game. It can be good! But also bad. Artificial intelligence can initially provide some benefits, and eventually can turn…
They’re out in April (in Japan only, at least for now), and there are cases based on Breath of the Wild, Splatoon and Animal Crossing There are four Animal Crossing cases, two soft ones for iPhones and two nicer folding flip ones. The Splatoon and Zelda ones also flip, and these four are for pretty…
When 2018 meets 2005.
Sangsoo Jeong is an artist working at Chinese gaming giant NetEase, and the pieces you’re about to see are some of the best character design we’ve ever featured on Fine Art They’re for a concept he was working on from 2015-17, and are just…ungh, just look at them. I wish Final Fantasy XV could have…
Here’s a timelapse video of reader Christopher Cayco drawing all 807 current Pokémon. It took him 350 hours over a span of 42 days. Actually, there are more than 807 Pokémon: while he’s got all of them accounted for, he’s drawn some of them more than once, so there’s actually over 1100 pocket monsters in…
It’s hard work, turning a video game into a board game. Video games are big, sprawling pieces of audio-visual entertainment. They come packed with AI, can resolve battles in an instant and look fantastic while doing it all. It’s unfair to ask a board game, with its sedate pacing, books full of rules and cardboard…
Somebody once told me this is the kind of material you’d like to see on Fine Art Brandon Luyen is an artist based in the US who is currently with Sanzaru Games. In a previous job, though, he helped out on the classic (?) Shrek Superslam, a 2005 fighting game that was most popular on…
Not all of them are hairy dicks As we discussed in September, despite Nintendo’s decision to kill the Miiverse—an online community for the Wii U and 3DS—late last year, some fans and engineers wanted to save everything that had been posted to the service, so that it wasn’t lost to the ether once Nintendo pulled…
Remember Matt The Technician, Kylo Ren’s run as an Undercover Boss on Saturday Night Live? It’s in Battlefront II now. This lil’ mod takes the game’s Unmasked Kylo Ren skin and replaces it with Matt, who is shredded, and definitely not a punk bitch. This skin, by GameTSF and ricksterlol, only works in the game’s…
Kyle Enochs is an artist at Gunfire Games, the studio currently working on Darksiders III You can see more of Kyle’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of…
One of the nine new factions coming with Civ VI’s first big expansion are the Cree, led by Poundmaker.
One of the coolest things about Planet Coaster is that its customers look and feel almost alive. If you want to see how that was done, Gamasutra have an interviewwith Owen McCarthy, Principal Programmer at Frontier, who explains the making of the game’s believable crowds
Wars, one of Nintendo’s finest series—and one they seem intent on leaving to die in the cold like a dog—blew up in the West on the Game Boy Advance, but in Japan it’s a lot older. The series debuted on the Famicom in 1988, and then moved to the Game Boy for a number of…
Throughout 2017, the supremely-talented Mineralbluflew over 12,000 miles to cover conventions all across America, taking incredible shots (and video) for your cosplay viewing pleasure. To help look back on a killer 2017, he’s put together this video showcasing some of the best cosplay from 15 of the biggest shows on the continent, from PAX to…
The Splinter Cell: Part 2 is the sequel to a 2014 fan film that was very good. This one is also, whaddya know, very good.
Claire Gary is an artist working at EA’s Motive studio in Canada as an animator. You can see more of Claire’s work at her personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of…
Newer Super Mario Bros. DS is a fan-made project that basically gives you a whole new Mario game for the DS (only you actually play it on PC or Mac). Newer DS is not technically a standalone game; instead, it’s a patch for the original ROM that was made using the New Super Mario Bros.…
While there are sadly no new Star Wars space shooters in development (that we know about), that’s not for a lack of trying. In 2016, for example, the studio behind Rebel Galaxy put this video together for a pitch to EA to make exactly what we’re asking for. Double Damage is the team responsible, and…
It’s absolutely insane to think that 2017 was so good to me that The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, a game made in close consultation with my wildest fantasies, was somehow still not my favourite game for the year. Instead, that honour goes to a game about my magical teenage friends, who wear…
Hahahah, a $60 iPad game, in 2017, would you get a look at that. Only in this case, it’s not as insane as it sounds. With the series having endured a half-assed history on mobile devices, Aspyr (long-time porters of Firaxis’ series to Apple computers) has surprisingly dropped Civilization VI on the App Store for…
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