Announced back in June, Figma’s Skyward Sword Link action figure is now shipping to customers worldwide. Like me, when I opened up a Japanese box this morning like a six year-old at Christmas. The latest in a long and very popular series of figures, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Figma piece dedicated…
Artist Roberto Flores continues to make dreams come true with his Game of Thrones fighting game mock-ups, this time featuring the greatest battle never seen in the books: Daenrys and her dragons up against Robert and his enormous gut. Game of Thrones Excel! Round 3 – Dany vs Robert [DeviantArt]
When comedian and TV host Chris Hardwick figured one day that his girlfriend, actress and TV presenter Chloe Dykstra, looked a lot like Skyrim’s Aela The Huntress, there was only one thing to do. Finish the job. So here’s Chloe in Aela’s outfit, which was crafted by cosplayer Vanessa Walton (photos are by Paolo Cellammare).…
If ever proof was needed of the strength of PC gaming circa 2012, and in particular the appeal of Valve’s Steam service, look no further than this: over the weekend, over six million people were playing PC games on Steam. Sure, there’s a big sale on, so people are buying games like there’s no tomorrow,…
Mojang’s annual Minecon, a gathering for fans of its Minecraft game, was held over the weekend at… Disneyland Paris. While the majority of updates coming out of the event were incremental and aimed at hardcore users, one thing should be of interest to a wider audience. It’s called Minecraft Reality, and it’s an iOS augmented…
British Elite fan Drew Wagar has fired up a Kickstarter pledge to help him… afford to back someone else’s Kickstarter pledge. Saying that he’s an “an enormous fan of Elite“, Wagar—a published author—wants to be able to spend £4,500 in order to support David Braben’s Elite: Dangerous campaign, reaching a tier that would allow him…
Sometimes used as with pride, sometimes used with derision, the term “master race” has become a common one to describe those PC gamers who love to Lord it over the plebs, revelling in their glowing hardware and hi-res textures. Something captured almost perfectly—right down to the Gabe Newell cameo—in this amazing image by artist Saejin…
Back in August, we told you that we’d heard BioShock Infinite was having problems with its multiplayer, a feature that hadn’t actually been publicly announced. They’re problems that, come November, seem insurmountable. Series boss Ken Levine has told Twitter followers that the game won’t be shipping with multiplayer. No multiplayer at all. You can read…
DJ Cutman has turned the Wii U’s soothing menu music into an album. Get it here
Two of Ubisoft’s biggest games for the year—and indeed, two of the bigger PC releases for the year—are Assassin’s Creed III and Far Cry 3. So it’s weird that, unlike most other places on Earth, neither is yet available on the UK’s Steam servers. “We’ve been in discussions with Valve about Assassin’s Creed 3 and…
David Smit is a concept artist with a ton of experience working in video games, from stints with studios like Guerilla Games (Killzone 2) and Crytek (Project: Ryse). He’s now a freelancer, who in addition to his video game work has also provided art for clients like Adidas and Playboy. If you like what you…
It’s been an interesting week for the Wii U. Nintendo’s—well, anyone’s—first new home console in six years has been met with a curious mixture of joy, bewilderment and even disdain by early adopters and critics alike. Let’s look back, then, on the week that was for the Wii U. Below you’ll find the biggest, most…
After five years with the team, Sony Computer Entertainment America PR man Jeff Rubenstein recently left the company. In leaving, though—or at least for being there for five years before he left—we get a chance to see something neat. Behold, SCEA’s five-year service reward/award. Sure, five years doesn’t sound long, but in a world where…
Danish studio IO Interactive, as the creators of the series, have been doing Hitman games forever. But the next Hitman game, the one after Absolution, won’t be made by them. And it won’t be like other Hitman games, either. No, the next Hitman game, in development at new studio Square Enix Montreal, sounds like it…
I had a very strange thing happen to me this week. I went back and re-played a game I hadn’t previously enjoyed. Only this time, a year removed from my first experience, I actually enjoyed it. The game in question was Assassin’s Creed Revelations. With Assassin’s Creed III out this week, and being a fan…
Hot Toys has all the super heroes of The Avengers covered with their amazing line of highly-detailed figures, but what about plain old regular heroes? Here’s one. Everyone’s favourite super dork, Agent Phil Coulson. Available in June 2013 for $175, he comes with all kinds of super accessories like a…folder. And his Captain America trading…
Over the rest of this week and the weekend, over 10,000 gamers will be gathering in Jonkoping, Sweden for Dreamhack Winter, the world’s largest LAN party. There’ll be games, parties, e-sports, food, swag, you name it, if it’s got to do with PC gaming, it’ll probably be somewhere at Elmia Fair, where the attendees get…
Oles Shishkovtsov, from Metro developers 4A Games, delivered a short-but-interesting verdict on Nintendo’s new console recently when he said “[The] Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU.” 4A & THQ PR man Huw Beynon (THQ being the publisher of 4A’s Metro: Last Light) elaborated a little more at the time, but in the wake of…
It’s not often you get to see a game guide, of sorts, written by an artist. But then, it’s not often a game is as simple as Angry Birds Artist Evan Roth has finished Rovio’s mobile game in a pretty unique way: he managed to record every swipe of his finger throughout the game’s levels,…
To help spin the good spin in its current stoush with Hamas, the Israeli Defence Force has launched a program called IDF Ranks. Which is, essentially, a game about being a mouthpiece for the Israeli Defence Force. It’s aimed at young internet users, both inside Israel but especially internationally, who are told that by signing…
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