Far Cry 3 does something interesting with its protagonist Jason, presenting him not as a bloodthirsty killer with military training, but as some kid, thrust into a situation well outside his abilities or understanding. When you jump off a cliff, he screams. When you cut open an animal for its skin, no matter how many…
League of Legends might be one of the biggest games in the world, but it’s not without its share of problems. Chief among them the fact many of its players are hostile, anti-social assholes. That’s something developers Riot Games are trying to address, and according to lead producer Travis George in an interview with Gamasutra,…
As promised, LEGO movie-maker extraordinaire Kooberz has finished the first part of his epic re-telling of Portal 2 via the wonders of stop-motion animation. This opening part runs for over five minutes. The amount of work that must have gone into this makes my head want to go lie down independent of the rest of…
The nominations for the 55th Grammy Awards have been revealed, and for PS3 gamers there’s quite the surprise: Austin Wintory’s wonderful score for PSN title Journey has been nominated for Best Score Soundtrack. That’s not some weird term for an obscure category nobody will ever hear about; it’s the category for the best original score…
Thomas Deer is a cultural liaison officer at the Kahnawake Language and Cultural Centre. He helped Ubisoft out on Assassin’s Creed III, and did one hell of a job making sure it became easily the best representation of Native Americans in a video game. According to this report in the Montreal Gazette, Deer “was brought…
The entire cast of The Hobbit, from hobbits to dwarves to wizards, have had a photoshoot where they were snapped, in full costume and make-up, with their respective LEGO minifigs. Ian McKellen looks so impressed I really hope they let him keep it. The Hobbit Cast & Their LEGO Minifigs [The Hobbit]
Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, here’s your first look at the upcoming Ender’s Game movie (based on Orson Scott Card’s book) starring Harrison Ford.
Every day, I look at the Transformers on my toy shelf, and I think two things. First, I’m glad to be in possession of so many amazing toys. Secondly, I’m glad many of them are just sitting there, and don’t actually have to be transformed. Because transforming some of these things can be murder This…
I don’t know how they got this cat to sit still long enough to get the costume on, let alone how many scratches and hisses they took as a result, but it doesn’t matter. For their heroics, we get to see a cat dressed as…a catbus My Cat is a Bus [sweet ipomoea, via neatorama]
A.J. Trahan is an artist we’ve featured here before, at least partially, for his work on Epic Mickey. But the stuff we’re going to look at today is a little grander in scale. Trahan was one of the 117,342 artists who worked on Halo 4, but in addition to his contributions to Microsoft’s latest blockbuster,…
Taking the fragile wooden medium of many of the series’ crappy first shields and mixing it with the design of later, badass Hylian shields, Brazilian craftsman Paulo Vinícius D. Horstma has made this beautiful piece of replica Zelda gear. I don’t use the term “craftsman” lightly; Horstma has done some incredible work here, with many…
Corvo, the star of Dishonored, is a deft man with a blade. He can leap, and sneak, like a cat. Dude even has magic powers. You’d think, then, he could do anything and everything, but no. This clip, showing him trying to pour a pint, is heart-breaking. Won’t someone just pour it for him? Corvo…
So Nintendo is here to help. Perhaps wanting to get out in front of holiday season returns, when Little Johnny furiously explains he wanted a 3DS and not a DS (or your grandmother buys you a game that won’t work in your system), Nintendo has—hastily, judging by the sound quality—put together this instructional video outlining…
Collecting nearly 2000 Star Wars action figures the hard way would have taken thousands of dollars and decades of work. The easy way is to let someone else do it, then buy their collection straight off them. If that’s more your style, the Star Wars museum at Rancho Obi-Wan are auctioning off a lot of…
While it seemed unlikely, there was always the chance, however remote, that a battle of patents between Microsoft and Motorola could have seen the Xbox 360 taken off store shelves. A US judge, however, has ruled that this won’t be happening. The two companies have been fighting for years, with Motorola saying the Xbox 360…
Proving that professional gamers can be no different to the casual players of the same game, League of Legends pro Christian Rivera has been banned from the game for “persistent toxic behavior”. While the game’s Tribunal recognises that “the decision to impact someone’s career is not one we make lightly”, they’ve been left with little…
Wii U users, there’s a new firmware update available for your system. Clocking in at around 600MB, it doesn’t appear to do anything drastic (like speed up loading and menu times). Here’s what Nintendo says it does do: Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user…
Ubisoft’s two big holiday releases don’t just share numerals and second words starting with “cr”. They also both begin, bizarrely, with almost exactly the same quote. Yes, of all the books, movies, TV shows and historical figures that are out there for developers to lift quotes from, both Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed III…
The magnificently-named Randis Albion takes the humble chocobo and toughens it up in this beautiful piece, which he’s hoping will get him a meeting with legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. You can see the full image below. Go Chocobo Go! [CGHub, via Super Punch]
There’s been a ton of media based on Capcom’s Street Fighter II series. Some bad movies, some good anime, some decent comics. This is none of those things. It’s a terrible comic. But terrible in a great way. Bad art, bad romance, bad fight scenes… if I’d been 13 when I read this, as I…
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