ttp://youtube.com/Hfq9cmEs6PQ&hd=1 Good news, everyone! Darkstalkers is being re-released! Bad news, everyone! It looks like complete garbage. Due out in “early 2013” on XBLA and PSN, Darkstalkers Resurrection is actually a bundle containing two games: Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge and Darkstalkers 3 It’s got the stuff you’d expect (and even some new features), like online play,…
A casting agency has put out urgent calls for extras, who will feature in the third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, currently filming in Northern Ireland. They need male cellists, who have “medieval or period faces (i.e long hair & beard)”, and they also need men who can film at night, appear in a…
Sorry, Battlefield 3. Sorry, Crysis 2. Upcoming driving game Project CARS is here to kick your ass and take your crown. The crowd-funded (and developed!) racing game has celebrated its one-year anniversary with, what else, but a fan-made trailer. I know, this is footage from its PC version (it’s also due for 360, PS3 and…
In case you’ve never come across the project previously, Star Wars Revisited is one man’s personal quest to gently sneak in and “fix” the Star Wars series. Not with re-shoots or drastic edits. Just by painstakingly looking at each frame of the films and touching up the little things that George Lucas overlooked when he…
Crysis 2 was pretty, but for hardcore PC types, in some ways it wasn’t pretty enough. It didn’t push the limits of fidelity in the same way its predecessor had. While most have moved on from the game, and if anything are waiting on Crysis 3, this texture pack turns Crytek’s mildly pixellated New York…
Of all the people who loved Arnold Schwarzenegger during his 1980s prime, none loved him more than the artists responsible for the covers of video games. They just could not stop paying indirect (or even blatantly direct) homage to the action superstar by having him inspire the poses, outfits and faces to games as famous…
Yeah, Arkham City’s Nightwing is a dude, but he’s a skinny dude—especially compared to the hulking giant that is Batman—so it’s totally within reason for a woman to cosplay as the former Boy Wonder. That’s cosplay superstar Linda Le in the outfit, while Long Vo was behind the camera Lady Nightwing Cosplay [Facebook, via Ian…
So while playing the 360 version of XCOM, we noticed a little hiccup that we hadn’t seen on other versions. If you’re in the barracks, and swap between a male and a female soldier, the game freaks out a little bit. To the naked eye it looks like a really quick visual “burp”, but when…
Forget the most exciting thing I’ve heard this week. The announcement of Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts’ return to space-based PC games, complete with bombastic trailer, is the most exciting video game news I’ve heard in years So it’s a pleasure in tonight’s Fine Art to be able to share some concept images from the…
While the cover art appears to be predictably awful, there’s little disputing the quality of the contents of this compilation of Rockstar games that’s turned up on retail sites. Called “Rockstar Games Collection: Edition 1”, it bundles Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City and Midnight Club Los Angeles: Complete…
Until now, we’ve only been able to see what’s on the outside of the Wii U. Let’s change that by tearing the lid off one and seeing, albeit only in general terms, what goes inside The latest Iwata Asks Q&A over on Nintendo’s site has a surprising amount of detail on the challenges and processes…
Casey Muratori wrote a great piece yesterday speaking out against Microsoft’s Windows 8 for all kinds of reasons, but one point that struck me was his suggestion that, because there are age restrictions on the operating system’s marketplace, this would affect adult video games. Surely not, I thought. Microsoft wouldn’t be that stupid. That must…
XCOM has a nice little surprise for those willing to go without achievements for the game: superhero “cheat” characters who, in addition to being maxxed out killing machines, are also famous video game developers. Both Civilization creator Sid Meier and BioShock frontman Ken Levine are available, and accessible in about the simplest way possible: just…
Carlyle Livingston II and Wayne Hussey spent over 800 hours across twelve weeks building this LEGO Batcave. It’s made out of 20,000 individual parts, weighs over 100 pounds, and even has its own lighting system. It’s also got a total of four motors hidden inside to power various elements, like elevators, the Batmobile’s turntable and…
Amidst the technical issues plaguing League of Legends’ World Playoffs, there also emerged accusations that some of the contestants had essentially “cheated”, by using the venue’s monitors (there to show the game to the large crowd) to check in on the activity of their rival players. After an investigation by developers Riot Games, a number…
Prop builder Zander Brandt specialises in turning video game guns into real-world playthings. Wonderful playthings. And his latest work is no exception. It’s an M-97 Viper sniper rifle from Mass Effect 2, and what I like about it—like most of Zander’s work—is how well-crafted it is. He builds practically the entire thing out of wood,…
Part of a nice gallery of Instagram photos over on Attract Mode, this pic shows one of two possible uses for an old Xbox machine in 2012. The other being, of course, an Xbox Media Centre. But that’s way less fun. A PICTURE OF FLAT SHADED POLYGONS, ON A FUZZY ARCADE MONITOR, WITH AN IPHONE…
Artist Andrea Gerstmann has some ideas for Star Wars‘ most famous droids. In particular, what they can wear this Halloween. It’s a little cosplayception, what with them being characters within characters, but I like it. I can hear them arguing over them already. “What makes you think there are Princesses over there?” “Beep Beep” etc…
Jan Urschel is a concept artist currently employed at Lucasarts’ Singapore studio, where he’s working on 1313, the first big Star Wars game in years that isn’t set before the classic trilogy. Or, at least, too far before it. While you won’t find any art from that game here – it’s still under lock and…
Given how they can often result in fence-sitting games that specialise in AAA blandness, gamers are right to be wary of focus testing groups. These girls, though, should have been wary for a very different reason. “I’m watching you, girls”. So creepy
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