Artist Cory Schmitz has, just for fun, taken the idea of redesigning the Xbox “brand” and run with it. I like where he’s ended up. Maintaining the green and prominent “X”, just about everything else we associate with the platform’s marketing is gone, replaced with something far cleaner and more distinct. Just, literally, an X…
Jeong Shin is a concept artist who, having previously worked at toy company Mattel, is now employed at Ubisoft Montreal, where some of the projects he’s worked on include Far Cry 3 and Watch Dogs If you like what you see here, you can check out more of Jeong’s stuff on his personal site To…
For a lot of people, myself included, the arcade racer was at the peak of its powers in the 1990s. Games like Daytona, SCUD Race and a guilty pleasure of mine, Namco’s Ace Driver, hit a sweet spot of visual prowess, accessibility and the opportunity for public showmanship. So it’s nice to see someone else…
You know, I thought I’d seen the ultimate in Iron Man cosplay last year, and from a decorative standpoint, I probably have. But Anthony “Master” Le’s outfits don’t shoot real lasers like this thing does. AnselmoFanZero from Laser Gadgets has built this incredible “Functional Iron Man Laser Gauntlet”, which does exactly as it says. It…
WHEN THE ZOMBIES COME (the title is actually in caps) is a short documentary that’s being shown at this year’s Sundance. And, well, on the internet right now. It’s about the staff of a rural hardware store—all massive Walking Dead fans—who bored and with with a large amount of dangerous things at their disposal set…
It’s been a long time coming. A long, long time, and still no release date in sight. But indie adventure/platformer Owlboy looks worth the wait. This video, released over the weekend, showcases both the music of composer Jonathan Geer and the game’s charming art style, which for want of something more descriptive reminds me of…
Canadian street artist (and animator, and character designer) Aiden Glynn likes to take everyday objects on the street and bring a little life to them, turning them into characters from video games and cartoons. So a power box becomes Diglett, and an old barrel out the front of a restaurant becomes a prop from Donkey…
The US branch of Atari is filing for bankruptcy, says the LA Times. It’s not really Atari, but still, sad times.
Gaming Heads, a company that’s been making Valve-related merchandise for a few years now, will later this year be brining out this impressive (and huge) Gordon Freeman statue. Standing 20″ tall and available in Q3, the regular edition will sell for $320, while a collector’s edition (that comes with an extra weapons, the SMG) will…
Sometimes, if the outfit deserves it, I skip the usual “best of the last week” roundup stuff and just concentrate on a single costume. I’m doing that this week, because this Skyrim piece definitely deserves it. The last time I honoured a Skyrim outfit like this was in November 2012, but that gallery was helped…
Continuing their fine tradition of releasing awesome games for absolutely nothing, Adult Swim has put out Westerado, a game that’s a little bit RPG, a little bit action and a whole lot of Western revenge tale. Other designers, please take note. Not just of the game’s fantastic art style, but of the way the use…
FlameofWesternesse has made this terrific short film, which catalogues some of the memorials placed throughout Azeroth in honour of World of Warcraft players who have passed away during the game’s tenure. Maybe you’ve seen them and wondered what they were for, maybe like me you’ve barely played the game and had no idea it could…
Andrew Kim turned a lot of heads last year with a bold redesign of Microsoft’s corporate branding, a vision and set of logos far braver (and classier) than what Microsoft eventually came up with for products like Windows 8 and Surface. It was all unofficial “fan” work, of course, but things just got a little…
All that first-person climbing and running and rolling is awesome in Mirror’s Edge, but Mirror’s Edge is a video game. Seeing grown men do much the same thing on a skyscraper in Russia is as amazing as it is gut-wrenching. This is the first episode of Show Yourself, a series “about street underground culture, travels,…
Continuing a recent crackdown on the kind of behaviour that gives the game a bad rap (at least amongst those who don’t play it religiously), League of Legends developers Riot have permanently banned two prominent eSports players for their “toxic behavior in-game”. Ilyas Hartsema, aka enVision, whose “peak harassment score placed the account among the…
Doodle or Die is sort of like all those other drawing games you’ve seen and played, with one difference: it tends to be a lot funnier, because it’s built around the idea of multiplayer “chains”, whereby people write something, someone else draws it, then someone else bases the next inspiring line on the image that’s…
Django Unchained has action figures. Hardly unsurprising, given nearly everything gets an action figure these days, but what’s topical about Django’s are that Al Sharpton’s “National Action Network” has called for a nationwide boycott of the toys Why? Because “The movie is for adults, but these are action figures that appeal to children. We don’t…
Not all cosplay needs to be about “realism”. Sometimes humour can carry the day, sometimes bravado can do the job, and sometimes you can combine the two for something really special. I’m having a hard time picking my favourite. Fred Durstwalker is great, yeah, but the “classic dame” C-3PO seems to be channelling the inner…
Arnaud Kotelnikoff is an artist who has been working in the video game business since 1996, beginning his career with Ubisoft before moving onto work with companies like Gameloft and Tokyo-based Nintendo subsidiary Nd Cube. He’s now back at Ubisoft, and in this gallery we’ll see a collection of some of his personal and professional…
Earth’s Special Forces is a mod for the original Half-Life’s engine (not Half-Life 2’s Source) that transforms Valve’s shooter into a massive arena for Dragonball Z battles. It’s a third-person fighting game with a few different modes (you can team up for deathmatches, etc). Being a mod it’s a constant work-in-progress, and comes with a…
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